University of Raparin

The University of Raparin is a public university in Ranya, in the Sulaymaniyah Governorate of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. It was established in 2010.

The main campus of the Raparin University is located in Rania District, and the second campus is located in Qaladiza District.

The university's name comes from the Kurdish 1991 uprising in Sulaymaniyah, that started in Ranya in March 5, 1991.

Presidents

• Prof. Dr. Mohammed Ali Abdullah
• Assist. Prof. Dr. Mofaq Khalid Ibrahim

Campuses and Colleges

Activities, Festivals, Workshops, Seminars, and Conferences

• Continuous participation of the university and its students in the anniversary ceremony of the 5th of March uprising in Rania.
• Continuous participation of the university and its students in anniversary remembrance of the tragedies, uprisings, and university’s martyrs day on 24/4 in Qaladza.
• Organizing different activities by the students on University’s Day (4/4).
• Holding seminars, workshops, training course, and media related activities by the Directorate of Relations, Media and Publications
• Opening many sport tournaments among students, lecturers and university staff by the Directorate of Sport and Cultural Activities.
• Holding many meetings, seminars and organizing many literary, cultural and Cultural activities along with opening of galleries by the Directorate of Sport and Cultural Activities.
• Active participation of the university, Lecturers, students and the staff in national, cultural patriotic events.
• Holding a conference for Kurdish language under the title (Kurdish language between cultural and scientific duty) by Kurdish language department in Faculty of Education on 24-25-26 of September 2013
• Holding a conference entitled (organizing commercial advertisements through the means of media in accordance with the international principles) by faculty of Basic education in cooperation with directorate of Media in Raparin in 25-26/6/2013.
• Holding a 3-day campaign for preserving the archeological sites of Kurdistan Region by the History department in Faculty of Human sciences on 19-20-21 of January 2014.
• Holding a conference entitled (Media and Terror) on the anniversary of 117th publication of the first Kurdish newspaper by Directorate of Relations, Media and Publications on April 23, 2015.
• Organizing a series scientific seminars on the environment, a campaign for planting trees and opening galleries by the department of Geography in faculty of human sciences.
• The department of Kindergarten in the faculty of Basic Education held its first festival entitled (Kindergarten, the first transformative place in the society) in Rania on 16 May 2015.
• The department of Philosophy in faculty of human sciences at the University of Raparin held a conference entitled (Philosophy, Religion and Secularism) on 19-20 of May 2015.
• University of Raparin is organizing a scientific conference for the uprising's silver jubilee entitled as "The Progression of Raparin, and new interpretations for its Entities" during (6/7/8) of March, 2016 at Rania City.

University of Raparin has the following centers

• Research Center
• English Language Development Center.
• Career Development Center

UoR Membership in organisations

• International Association of Universities (IAU)
• Eurasian Universities Union (EURAS)
• World Higher Education Database (WHED) Portal

In 2013, University of Raparin was formally recognized by Ministry of Higher Education and scientific research of Iraq. University of Raparin has also scientific and academic relations with local and international universities.

Meanwhile, Raparin University has established sisterhood partnership with a wide range of local and international universities and it has robust scientific relationship with them. The university has signed memorandum of understanding with (18) international universities for staff and scientific exchange. Three of which are in America, two in Britain, four in Turkey, and the rest are in Sweden, Spain, Russia, Armenia, Egypt, Lebanon, Azerbaijan, Jordan and Iran.

University of raparin was able to participate in ten different international projects such as: Erasmus Mundus Marhaba(European Commission), DAAD - DIES Training(Staff 1-development- training for medium leaders of universities in Kurdistan-Iraq) –Kassel University –Germany), IREX the Kurdistan Rural Universities Partnership Program, IREX- Internationalization of Kurdistan Public University Campuses, and IREX- Iraq University Linkages Program- Career Development Centers trainings.

References

See also

• Official University of Raparin website