Koya University is located in the city of Koya (Koysinjaq), which is a 1.0 hr drive to the East of the Kurdistan Region capital Erbil (Arbil, Hewlér) in Kurdistan Region of F.R. Iraq. It is on the foothills of a beautiful high mountain. Its campus has been carefully laid out to embrace the beautiful mountainous nature.
Deep eutectic solvents workshop was held on 17th of April 2022 in Science and Health Research Center at Koya University in the presence of the Dean of the FSCH ‘Asst. Prof. Dr. Taha Jalal Omar’ and the vice dean ‘Mr. Hawkar Jaafar Hamad Ameen’ focused on the use of Deep eutectic solvents (DESs).
As part of its Continuous Improvement Programme, the Department of Clinical Psychology at Koya University held a training course entitled “Bloom Taxonomy, Types of Questions and Tests” from 29th of March to 5th of April, 2022, which targeted the academic staff of Faculty of Science and Health.
The Department of Software Engineering at Koya University will organise an international workshop entitled "First International Workshop on Smart Computing Applications IWSC" on the 18th of May 2022, which will be held in a hybrid environment. The workshop will invite two national and 9 distinguished international speakers; Prof. Elizabeth Munch , Prof. Jana Dittmann, Dr. Eduardo Paluzo Hidalgo, Dr. Alessia Paglialonga, Dr.-Ing. Christian Kraetzer, Dr. Tuan T. Nguyen, Dr. Aras Asaad, Dr. Manuel Soriano Trigueros, Dr. Dhurgham Al-Karawi, Dr. Hadi Veisi, Dr. Halgurd Sarhang and Dr. Abdulbasit Talabani.
The Directorate of Public Relations at Koya University announces a New Launched Edition (2020-2022) of the Erasmus+ Program that has two programs (STT and STA) run by the Tecnico Lisboa - Portugal through Erasmus Plus 2020-2022:
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SCIMAGO Institution Ranking announned the SCIMAGO University Ranking Edition-2022. For the first time, Koya University is listed in this important ranking. Only (40) Iraqi Universities have been listed in this ranking. Koya University has been ranked (9) among the Public IKR Universities, (25) among the Iraqi universities and (745) among the worldwide Universities. The best Quartile of Koya University according to SCIMAGO University Ranking is Q2.
On March 30, 2022, The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Iraq celebrated the 10 Years Anniversary of its establishment in Erbil. The event was attended by a number of guests from the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, KRG and the academic institutions in the region. The Dean of Faculty of Engineering, Assist. Prof. Dr. Mohammed H.S. Zangana, attended this celebration and representing Koya University.
Vaccines, which are mostly biological products, save millions of lives each year, as they are designed to prevent disease, rather than treat it by priming a person’s immune system to recognize a specific disease-causing bacteria, virus or other pathogens. Therefore, we need to know what exactly is a vaccine and what goes into making one? And how do we know whether they are safe, or not? In this workshop, which was held by the department of Biology, Faculty of Science and Health, at Koya university on the 3rd of March, 2022, every aspect of vaccines and why they are important for our health including their advantages and disadvantages were explained.
Incites WoS announced its latest report for the universities' number of published indexed documents and number of citations. The WoS Citations report ranked Koya University as the 7th among the public universities in Kurdistan-Iraq region. According to the report, it has 417 published documents that indexed by WoS and 2081 citations by indexed sources.
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On Monday (March 28, 2022), the Iraqi Center for Documentation of Extremist Crimes in cooperation with the Malay Gewre Research Center at Koya University, held the first specialized forum entitled (Documenting Extremist Crimes in Iraq: Its Methods, Mechanisms, and Challenges) with the participation of many religious figures and academy. Prof. Dr. Hoshyar Zaki Hassan, the Director of Malay Gewre Research Center, gave the speech to the preparatory committee for the forum, after which the research sessions were opened.