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On the path of building
a strong academic Iraq

Committed to foster the German-Iraqi economic partnership

From left: Dr. Abid Thyab Al-Ajeeli (Former Minister for Higher Education, now Head of the Committee for Higher Education in Iraqi Parliament), Prof. Johanna Haberer (Vice president of the FAU), Ass.-Prof. Dr. Ahmed Dezaye (President of Salahaddin University Hawler), and Prof. Dr. Sefik Alp Bahadir (BEEP, project administration).
Third Annual Research Symposium of the "Baghdad-Erbil-Erlangen-Project" (BEEP) in conjunction with the 18th International DAVO Congress, Erlangen/Berlin, October 1st - 10th, 2011

Cooperation between Erlangen and Kurdistan Region deepens

15.05.2012 Since march 2012, the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg is proud of being host of a scholarship holder of the Kurdistan Regional Government Scholarship Program Human Capacity Development (HCDP). The scholarship program conducted by the Ministry of Higher Education and Research of the Kurdistan Region in Iraq was established on 22nd July 2010 and is endowed with an annual budget of one hundred and twenty billion dinars (US$100 million).

The Programm aims inter alia at meeting the needs of Kurdistan Region’s free market and economy for trained, specialised, and highly qualified leaders and modernisers in all sectors of the Region’s economy, as well as promoting excellence in scientific research in Kurdish universities and technical institutes through linkage with the leading international universities which the Ministry has identified.

With his dissertation project "Strategies of Downsizing Employment in the Public Sector in Iraq", Nasih Hasheem Mohammad, M.Sc. contributes now to the research agenda of the Center for Iraq Studies (CIS) of the University of Erlangen-Nueremberg. The Center, established in 2009, seeks on its part to take an important role in assisting Iraq in the process of rebuilding his academic and economic infrastructure, as clearly defined in its mission.

"The cooperation with the HCDP implies great opportunities for both sides, including spill over effects and scientific networking within the field of economic development", states the initiator and director of the CIS, Professor Dr. Sefik Alp Bahadir. "We feel honoured by the trust put in our Center by the Ministry and would be eager to strengthen the new built ties for more future synergetic effects."

The Ministry of Higher Education and Research conducts scholarship programs matching the research agenda of the Center for Iraq Studies

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