Project summary

In Kurdistan region of Iraq, students enrolled at public elementary schools are educating by elementary school teachers
whose 90% of them are graduates from colleges of Basic Education of the HEIs in Kurdistan. The Basic Education
colleges in Kurdistan are the main provider of the primary school teachers in the region. The current teaching staff at
our primary schools are 75% graduates of the Basic education colleges and 20% are graduates from two years teacher
preparing institute which is equivalent to the secondary school. The WIDE project aim to enhance the capacity of the
Basic education Faculties in each Partner institutions with the final outcome to improve the general regional standard of
primary education. The project builds on two assumptions: (1) the integration between in-and-out of the classroom as
a key driver for developing employability skills as well as civic awareness; (2) the digital transformation as embedded
in teaching, learning, and work. Universities, therefore, need to increase their capacities at two levels: (1) dialogue
with the business world or local institutions; and (2) pedagogies based on active methods integrating digital and virtual
components. WIDE adopts work-integrated learning as a methodological approach. The project will update previous
experiences and allow universities to draft and put in place procedures to implement work-integrated learning activities.
The ambition of the project is to establish a solid system for work-integrated learning activities, with particular attention
for internship and traineeship, working both online and F2F, since the future of work will increasingly include remote/
online work.