The minister of higher education and scientific research stressed the investment of Iraq’s international partnership with UNESCO in the fields of green education, achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and facing environmental challenges.
In his speech during the opening of the National Conference on Green education in the presence of the Acting Speaker of the Iraqi Council of Representatives, Mr. Mohsen al-Mandalawi and a number of Deputies, representatives of UNESCO and international organizations, vice-presidents, university presidents and deans of government and private colleges, he said that Iraq is part of the global partnership with UNESCO in the fields of green education and that this stage requires heading towards a future that adopts sustainable work, which must be based on the higher education sector as a vital basis for achieving development goals and uncovering environmental challenges.
The minister of Education urged Iraqi academic institutions to strengthen the fields of scientific research, capacity-building, awareness-raising and education on the importance of preserving the environment, pointing out that this type of attention stems from the tasks and responsibilities of higher education in achieving development goals and devoting serious and diligent pursuit to the formulation of curricula and the provision of scientific and laboratory capabilities that constitute an integrated road map to undermine future challenges.
In this context, the Acting Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. Mohsen al-Mandalawi, and the chairman of the parliamentary higher education committee, Dr. muzahem Al-Khayat, praised the indicators of scientific development in Iraqi higher education and scientific research institutions, the upgrading of global rankings platforms, and the achievement of productive partnerships in the green education environment, while the undersecretary of the ministry for Scientific Research Affairs, Dr. Haider Abdul Dahad, and the representative of the UNESCO office, Mr. Tim Maison, presented a presentation on sustainable development paths and the scientific research index in this field.
