On May 27th, 2024, in the presence of the Minister of Higher Education Dr. Aram Mohammed Qadir and Assist. Prof. Dr. Ava Omar Fatah Director of Quality Assurance and Curriculum Development,  A training course on the implementation of European and international quality assurance (ESG) standards was held. In order to establish a quality assurance system based on European and international quality assurance (ESG) standards, a training course (TOT)  was held for the committee to draft guidelines, guidelines and quality assurance standards.

In his speech, the Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, while congratulating the organizers and preparers of this training course, briefly discussed the quality assurance process in the Ministry of Higher Education and establishing a quality assurance system that supports European and international quality assurance standards He presented the situation in Kurdistan.
In his speech, the Minister of Higher Education said: This training course is a golden opportunity for the participants to become trainers in the implementation of the ESG Bologna Process, which we hope to conduct various courses, seminars and conferences for our universities.
In a speech, Dr. Mohammed Hussein, Chairman of the Quality Assurance and Supervision Agency and Chairman of the Committee. In order to develop guidelines for quality assurance, he pointed out the steps to start the project, which is to obtain an international fund by the Supervisory and Quality Assurance Agency for this project with the cooperation and coordination of Spark International. In another part of the course, several topics were presented and discussed by international trainers.

On May 21st, 2024, the Directorate of Quality Assurance and Curriculum Development organized a meeting supervised by Assistant Professor Dr. Ava Omar Fatah, Director of the Directorate. The meeting began with a discussion of APPRAIS (Governance, Quality, Accountability: a Piloting Reform Process in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq), a European Commission, Erasmus+, KA2 project for Capacity-building in the Field of Higher Education. The project has been funded with support from the European Union. Following that, a new software for managing quality assurance in research, the third mission, and student services was introduced, which is the outcome of the project. It assists academic staff in their research, quality assurance, and student service work, while aiding administrative staff in organizing faculty, staff, and student tasks. The software also includes teacher portfolios and Continuous Academic Development (CAD). The meeting was attended by those teachers from colleges and centers who have chosen to collect data about lecturers, students, and courses to upload to the software. Additionally, the practical and demonstrated part of the software was discussed by Rezhin Sarbast Majeed, who works as the software administrator.