UoH Participated in a Workshop on Strategy Development, Change Management and Internationalisation of Doctoral Training & TIGRIS Consortium Meeting at Masaryk University A delegation from the UoH including Dr. Tahseen Abdulkarim Al-Zanaga, UoH President, and Dr. Dana Abdulla, vice-president for Scientific Affairs participated in another workshop of TIGRIS entitled, “Strategy Development, Change Management and Internationalisation of Doctoral Training & TIGRIS Consortium Meeting at Masaryk University” which was lasted for three days from 24th-26th of June 2019 at Centre for International Cooperation at Masaryk University in Brno/ Czech Republic. The first day of the workshop was dedicated to Consortium Meeting & Strategy Development. At first, each of Dr. Jan Pavlik, Director – Centre for International Cooperation / Masaryk University, Dr. Uwe Muuss, TIGRIS Project Coordinator / Georg-August-Universität Göttinge and Prof. Dr. Polla Khanaqa, TIGRIS Regional Co-coordinator / KISSR, gave brief speech of welcome In the second day, Change Management was addressed by Dr. Uwe Muuss, TIGRIS Project Coordinator / Georg-August-Universität Göttinge in the morning session. In the afternoon session, Best practices in Internationalisation of Doctoral Education – Introduction to the topic and best practices identified incl. Q&A was presented by Mr. Jef Schrooten from Humanities and Social Sciences Group / KU Leuven. Later, the focal points took part in an activity of Project Management Meeting by Mr. Jakob Hedderich and Ms. Laura C. Hoffmann. Then, a presentation by UGOE incl. Q&A was offered. After that, HEI Presidents were in a Q&A session with Dr. Jan Pavlik, director – Centre for International Cooperation / Masaryk University. The TIGRIS Project has been awarded for EU co-funding within the framework of the Erasmus+ programme “Capacity Building in the Field of Higher Education”.Capacity building projects in the field of higher education support the modernisation, accessibility, and internationalisation of higher education in Partner Countries, in this case Kurdistan.The TIGRIS Project, which will run for 3 years from 2017 – 2020, is coordinated by the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany.The project consortium is composed of 4 European partners and 10 Kurdish partners, including the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research (MHESR), as well as 2 associate partners.