Environmental Sustainability

Strategic Plans

The University of Kirkuk is developing a sustainable development plan in cooperation with the Department of Environment Protection and Improvement in Kirkuk Governorate, toward 2050 goals 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 equipment 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/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 the establishment and use of renewable energy instead of fossil fuel-based energy.

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

Transparency and student representation across university colleges and departments.

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

It also refers to and publicizes the Student Discipline Law and communicates it to students for guidance and counseling, while emphasizing the importance of information exchange so that students become part of the issued decisions, as they are the محور العملية التعليمية.

University Policy to Combat Administrative and Financial Corruption and Eliminate 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 Department to review financial documents and expenditures within the granted authorities, while also opening complaint boxes in all colleges and at the university.

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 sustainable development goals.

The University President directed the colleges of Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Dentistry, and Veterinary Medicine to provide their various services to the community free of charge, while focusing on awareness activities such as seminars and workshops for health education.

Sustainable Development Committee at the University of Kirkuk

Number of Members: 0
No. Full Name Capacity Position
1 Prof. Dr. Omar Sabah Ibrahim Chairman Specialist in water resources and environmental studies
2 Asst. Prof. Dr. Abdul Hakim Shakour Mohammed Member Director of the Quality Assurance Department and university representative in the committee meetings المذكورة أعلاه (Physicist)
3 Dr. Mohammed Khudr Mohammed Member Director of the Climate Change Division / Kirkuk Environment Directorate
4 Ms. Farah Ibrahim Mustafa Member Director of the Sustainable Development Unit / Senior Legal Consultant
5 Ms. Maha Hashim Mohammed Member Environmental Engineer / Assistant Chief Engineer
6 Ms. Raja Barzan Zaidan Member Fuel and Energy Engineer / Assistant Chief Engineer