Presidents of Russia and Kazakhstan defined the vector for academic collaboration development between two countries

During the XIV Interregional Cooperation Forum in Chelyabinsk Vladimir Putin and Nursultan Nazarbayev discussed the issues of bilateral collaboration in the sphere of education and science

The main subject of the Forum was the development of human capital. One of the most important topics discussed during the large-scale event was the collaboration between Russian and Kazakh universities in the sphere of research.

Vladimir Putin came forward with a proposal of establishing joint Russian-Kazakh research centers on the basis of the leading higher educational institutions of two regions. As an example the President cited the collaborative development of Ural Federal University with the partners from Kazakhstan in the sphere of reducing the energy intensity of production. He underlined that its large-scale implementation will allow not only to conserve energy resources, but as well to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, which is of significant importance for a number of regions both in Kazakhstan and in Russia.

The President noted that Russia and Kazakhstan agreed to extend relations between regional universities and added that education is a key sphere of the human capital development.

Another important initiative discussed by the Presidents of two countries was the organization of joint Olympiads for school students of Russia and Kazakhstan in Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Biology. This proposal was put forward by Nursultan Nazarbayev in the course of his opening speech at the Forum.

This initiative might open up new opportunities for the development of academic collaboration between two countries. Today 928 students from Kazakhstan study at Ural Federal University.

Based on the materials by www.kremlin.ru

Ural Federal University (UrFU) is one of the largest higher educational institutions in Russia, which brings together fundamental education and innovative approach towards the challenges of modern times.

Currently, the university is home to 32,000 students from 76 countries of the world and more than 4,000 faculty members, including the top-notch global experts in the spheres of natural sciences, engineering and social sciences. Our institutes offer about 400 Bachelor, Master and Doctoral Programs in natural sciences, engineering, social sciences, humanities, economics and management taught in Russian and English. The number of UrFU alumni exceeds 360,000 people.

Breakthrough studies are pursued in 72 research excellence centers. The university is open to international collaboration having almost 400 partners all over the globe and being an active participant of such initiatives as BRICS Network University, SCO Network University, CIS University.

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