On Thursday, April the 6th, at 14:00 in lecture hall 202, the Local Area Development Program representatives from the UNDP have held a seminar to introduce the students to the Innovation Competition on Sustainable Energy 2017.

The seminar was presented by Mr. Osama Kassamani, and mostly talked about climate change challenges and what people could do for the community if they used energy efficiently and thought sustainably.

The Head of Architecture department, Mr. Soma A. Kareem, and the Head of Civil Engineering Department, Mr. Barham Haidar Ali, along with academics and many students of the engineering faculty attended the seminar.

The seminar pointed out the sustainable energy action plan, and also discussed the mechanisms of energy efficiency and how the students could put them into use for their project entries for the innovation competition and it also included live examples from Kurdistan Region in general and Erbil city specifically and the impact of its population on the bigger picture of the climate change,

Mr. Kassamani also included the students and the attendees to take part in the seminar presentation, as he asked questions and asked the audience to answer, his presentation was actively involving.

The seminar lasted for an hour as it finished at 15:00 by answering the attendants’ questions.

DA5 – UNDP BY Osama Kassamani