The first online international conference on physics is going to be held in collaboration with the Universities of Sulaimani, Koya, Halabja and Garmian (Kurdistan Region) and the Universities of Kurdistan and Shahid Beheshti (Iran) for 3 days from 25th to 27th of August 2021. The purpose of this conference is to tackle the most urgent challenges, help realize the most exciting opportunities, and provide a platform to expand international scientific relations and cooperation between faculty members and researchers.

The Consulate General of the Russian Federation in Erbil presents its compliments to the Department of Foreign Relations of the Kurdistan Regional Government - Iraq and has the honour to inform the Department that the Government of the Russian Federation has taken the decision to provide scholarships for students from the Kurdistan Region of Iraq at the expense of the Russian Federation in Russian universities in 2021-2022 academic year.

Sixty unemployed Host Community, Syrian Refugees and IDP (age: 18-35) in Koya District have been trained at Koya University and graduated from the Entrepreneurship Development Program. Headway is a UNDP/UN-Habitat joint action programme, intervening in countries affected by the impact of the Syria crisis (Lebanon and Iraq) and funded by the “EU Regional Trust Fund in response to the Syrian crisis, the EU MADAD Fund”. Rwanga Foundation in consortium with Erbil Governorate will implement it under the umbrella of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

On Thursday, the 11th of February 2021, the pedagogy and academic development center (PADC) at Koya University started its second round of pedagogical training course. The PADC welcomed a diverse range of interested participants to be the beneficiaries of the pedagogical training course that is running on a national framework and approved by the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research. The program orientation took place online with the presence of Koya University president, Dr. Wali Hamad, and the vice president for the scientific affairs, Dr. Haidar Lashkary.

Dr. Fahmi F. Mohammadsharif at the Department of Physics, Faculty of Science and Health, Koya University, Published five new resaerch articles idexed by WoS (Clarivate Analytics) and SCOPUS, namely; International Journal of Antennas and Propagation, Applied Sciences, Materials Today: Proceedings, Physica B-Condensed Matter and Plos One. Dr. Fahmi received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Physics from the University of Sulaimani and University of Mosul in 2004 and 2007, respectively. He completed his PhD at the Department of Physics, University of Malaya in 2012. He was the Gold Medal winner during his PhD study. He held the position of head of the Department of Physics from 2013-2016. His current research interests include fabrication of organic electronic devices and investigating their materials properties. (see TAP)

The Directorate of Quality Assurance and Curriculum Development at Koya University has completed the Module Management System platform and now it is available as Google play application. the MMS application can be dowlnoaded as an Android-based OS application. We urge all the academic staff and students at koya University to access the http://mms.koyauniversity.org/ from theor Android mobile phones or tablets and download the application by clcik on Google Play icon.

The Arabic Citation Index (ARCI) is now available on the new Web of Science. Funded by the Egyptian Knowledge Bank, the Arabic Citation Index provides access to bibliographic information and citations to scholarly articles from expertly curated Arabic journals. Content may be searched in both Arabic and English. The accompanying Arabic interface for Arabic Citation Index and Web of Science will be available later this year. Read the full January release notes to learn more about these new features.

On Jan.28, 2021, the Ranking Web of Universities (Webometrics) has announced it January Edition of the year 2021. More than 31,000 worldwide universities were ranked, weher 30 universities from the Kurdistan Region-Iraq were listed in the ranking. Koya University ranked 8711 amon 31,153 worldwide universities and ranked 6 among the Universities in Kurdistan region.

Assistant Professor Taghreed Khaleefa Mohammed Ali at the Department of Architectural Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Koya University published two research articles with Springer publisher. The first research article entitled “Shear strength of a reinforced concrete beam by PET fiber” is published in the journal of Environment, Development, and Sustainability. The second research articls entitled "Properties of eco-friendly pervious concrete containing polystyrene aggregates reinforced with waste PET fibers" is published in the the journal of Innovative
Infrastructure Solutions.

Professor Salah I. Yahya from the Department of Software Engineering, Faculty of Engineering at Koya University with a research group from Iran and Vietnam published a research article entitled “The use of artificial neural network to design and fabricate one of the most compact microstrip diplexers for broadband L-band and S-band wireless applications” in the Wireless Networs. 
Wireless Networks journal is indexed by Clarivate Analytics with IF =2.659 and by SCOPUS with quartile Q2.