Symposium “Partnership in Progress”

On 12th and 13th Nov 2014

At the Department of Mechanical Engineering / College of Engineering

Salahaddin University-Erbil, Iraq

The symposium aims to strengthen the partnership between the German university TU Bergakademie Freiberg and the participating partner universities in Iraq Salahaddin University-Erbil, University of Technology Bagdad, University of Diyala,  Koya University, University of Sulaimani and the Cihan University.

Photogallery of the symposium „Partnership in Progress“ on November 12th and 13th 2014 at the Department of Mechanical Engineering

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Focus of the symposium will be future areas of cooperation in the fields of engineering, processes, energy, materials and machinery between the universities and Iraqi and German companies.

Further topics will be internships and days of open companies for Iraqi students as well as international projects.

The parties involved will give a presentation and present their activities or businesses.

The symposium is hosted by Salahaddin University-Erbil, Iraq, and funded by the DAAD and the Federal Foreign Office of Germany.

The Faculty of Mechanical, Process and Energy Engineering of the TU Bergakademie Freiberg participates since 2009 in a German-Iraqi academic partnership project in the field of Processes, Materials and Machines called Mechanical Engineering Germany – Iraq (MEGI).
MEGI has been approved  by the German Academic Exchange Service or DAAD (German: Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst) in 2009. DAAD aims to support the reconstruction of higher education in Iraq.  The cooperating universities in MEGI are TU Bergakademie Freiberg/Germany, Salahaddin University-Erbil, University of Technology Bagdad, University of Dyila, University of Sulaimani, University of Bagdad, University of Basrah, Thi-Qar University, University of Mustansiriyah, Koya University and the College of Engineering Erbil.