Environmental Sustainability

Strategic Plans

The University of Kirkuk is working on developing a sustainable development plan in cooperation with the Directorate of Environment Protection and Improvement in Kirkuk Governorate, toward the goals of 2050 and annual carbon conservation plans.

University of Kirkuk Develops a Sustainable Development Plan

Measures and a plan extending to 2050, along with an annual carbon conservation plan.

  • Purchasing devices to measure greenhouse gases in accordance with international standards.
  • Holding seminars and workshops on sustainable development and climate change and implementing their recommendations.
  • Increasing attention to green areas within the university and organizing tree-planting campaigns.
  • Coordinating with the governorate, government institutions, the private sector, and civil society organizations to benefit from available expertise.
  • Requiring the Environmental Research Unit to submit periodic reports on environmental problems and ways to improve them scientifically and practically.
  • Requiring postgraduate students to choose thesis and dissertation topics related to environmental improvement within appropriate specializations.
  • Encouraging faculty research and student graduation projects in the field of environment and sustainable development.
  • Working on establishing and using renewable energy instead of energy based on fossil fuels.

University of Kirkuk Cares for Students and Involves Their Representatives in Its Decisions

Transparency and student representation at the level of colleges and departments in the university.

The university adopts the principle of transparency and removing barriers between administration and students by ensuring student representation in all units, including colleges and academic departments, while taking diversity into account and maintaining communication to address academic, administrative, technical, and social issues.

It also relies on referring to the Student Discipline Law, announcing it, and communicating it to students for guidance and counseling, while emphasizing the importance of information exchange so that students become part of the decisions issued, because they are the core of the educational process.

University Policy on Combating Administrative and Financial Corruption and Eliminating Bribery

Within the directives of the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research.

The university directed the colleges to work according to a methodology for combating financial and administrative corruption in cooperation and coordination with the External Audit Directorate to audit financial documents and expenditures within the granted authorities, with complaint boxes opened in all colleges and at the university presidency.

In addition, awareness and educational activities are carried out to reduce and eliminate the phenomenon of financial corruption.

University of Kirkuk Provides Free Health Services

Medical and health services for students and community members in support of the Sustainable Development Goals.

The University President directed the colleges of Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Dentistry, and Veterinary Medicine to provide their diverse services to the community free of charge, with a focus on awareness activities such as seminars and workshops related to health education.

Sustainable Development Committee at the University of Kirkuk

Number of Members: 0
No. Full Name Capacity Position
1 Prof. Dr. Abdullah Ali Mohammed Chairman Assistant President of the University for Scientific Affairs
2 Assoc. Prof. Dr. Abdul Hakim Shakoor Mohammed Member Director of the Quality Assurance Department and the university’s representative in the committee meetings mentioned above (Physicist)
3 Prof. Dr. Omar Sabah Ibrahim Member Specialist in water resources and environmental studies
4 Prof. Dr. Mohammed Abdulaziz Latif Member Director of the Continuing Education Center
5 Dr. Mohammed Khudair Mohammed Member Director of the Climate Change Division / Kirkuk Environment Directorate
6 Eng. Dalia Badee Omar Member Quality Assurance Division
7 Mr. Ahmed Hashim Hussein Member Assistant Chief Engineer / Director of the Website Division
8 Ms. Sara Saber Aziz Member Head of the Rankings Unit