Civil Engineering Department in cooperation with the Center for Environmental Research at the University of Technology held a specialized technical meeting to discuss the importance and measurement of the response and the benefit of the implementation of the research project (The environmental impacts of the phenomenon of desertification and drought, natural disasters and wars and their impact on the environmental and social reality and different sectors of work in Iraq). The meeting started with a speech by Prof.Dr.Amin Dawei Thamer, President of the University of Technology welcomed the attendees and urged them to communicate well and continuously with the University to reach the most appropriate and best conclusions and through openness and cooperation with the University of Sussex.Followed by the word of Asst.Prof.Dr.Hassan Hamoudi, in which he stressed the capabilities of the department and its engineering staff  in achieving the project on a global level through cooperation with the British University.33 experts and specialists from various attended the meeting and representatives of the University of Sussex Dr. Jath Wand and Dr. Hussein Al-Tamimi, who participated via satellite from the British University. The participants discussed scientific cooperation between our University and the University of Sussex through the adoption of a project(Environmental impacts of desertification, drought, disasters and wars and their impacts using geomatics).A full review of the project submitted by the University of Technology and a statement of importance of scientific and applied in Iraq.After that, the participants started a scientific discussion and the representative of the University of Sussex, achieving positive results by providing scientific assistance by the executive ministries of this project and employing postgraduate students to complete their research within the directives of this project.