The President of the UoD participates in the IG-Con Annual Conference
May 30, 2016, 4:36 p.m.

The President of the University of Duhok Prof. Dr. Mosleh Duhoky participated in the First Annual Conference of the Iraqi-German Academic Cooperation Network” (IG-CON ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2016) which took place from May 17 to May 21, 2016 at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg in Erlangen, Germany. The Participants were  the Chancellor of FAU university Dr. Sybille Reichertmore and 15 Presidents of universities from Kurdistan and other parts of Iraq.  The purpose of this workshop-conference is to bring together the representatives of the Iraqi-German Academic Cooperation Network (IG-CON) partner universities and institutes from German universities already engaged or interested in inter-university cooperation in order to review and evaluate the present situation and the future perspectives of this cooperation network. The Center for Iraq Studies (CIS) is part of the “Iraqi-German Academic Cooperation Network” (IG-CON) which is sponsored by German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) within the German-Iraqi Strategic Academic Partnership Program based on the Memorandum of Understanding between the different universities and DAAD.

During the conference the two parties agreed on a plan for future collaboration with the different German universities and center of excellence.