Student Exchange Programs

The general objectives of an exchange programme between Duhok University and other universities are to:

• Provide opportunities for student to study abroad.
• Exchange under and postgraduate students for study and research work.
• Provide faculty members of both institutions with opportunities to participate in research and other collaborative activities.
• Explore the possibilities of benefiting from cooperation with Kurdish academics and experts living in foreign countries, as well as inviting non-Kurdish scientists and experts to visit us for educational and research purposes. Accordingly, Kurdish academics in the United Kingdom and Sweden often supervise postgraduate students in various fields of scientific study.
• Promote relations with international and regional educational and scientific centres.
• Establish joint research projects within fields of common interest.
• Provide opportunities for the exchange of faculty between the two institutions for research, teaching and staff development purposes.
• Offer institutional support and manpower development.
• Execute joint fieldwork.
• Establish individual departmental links.
• Exchange information, library materials and publications.
• Collaborate in the writing of lectures, tutorials, manuals and textbooks.
• Encourage communication between faculty and students of the two institutions.
• Conduct conferences and seminars.
  
  

The Cultural Relations Office, which is concerned with facilitating these international exchange schemes, pursues the following main activities:

• It explores the possibilities of establishing international relations with other institutions and the participation in exchange programmes with foreign universities and research centres.
• It examines the possibilities for promoting international and scientific relations through the signing of educational and scientific letters of understanding between Dohuk University and international universities and scientific centres.

In pursuance of these aims the University of Dohuk is a member of both the International Association of Universities (IAU) and of Specialists for International Training and Education (SITE). Furthermore, in order to strengthen academic standards and to promote a good international environment, the university has established bilateral academic relations with universities in a number of countries, namely: Silesia University, Poland in 1996, Dortmund University, Germany in 2000, Uppsala University, Sweden in 2001, and the Berlin Society for Advanced Kurdish Studies, Germany in 2002.  More recently, Huddersfield Technical College in the United Kingdom has undertaken several projects aimed at boosting educational development in Iraqi Kurdistan.


Following a recent cooperation agreement with the University of Dortmund, Germany, Dohuk University warmly welcomes and supports the forthcoming international exchange student programme when a group of German students will undertake a field study in Dohuk. This programme offers students on work experience schemes the opportunity to improve their skills in the fields of both management and planning prior to graduation. In accordance with the agreement this programme can be modified to meet the requirements of both rural and urban areas and can take account of the interaction between the two e.g. migration, trade, and the sharing of economic responsibilities.