KAZNARU IS ACTIVELY DEVELOPING COOPERATION WITH AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES
Today the American delegation visited the Kazakh National Agrarian Research University. The delegation included: Dr. Donald Pope Davis, Dean of the Faculty of Education and Human Ecology at The Ohio State University; Hugh Holman, lawyer, economist, educator and social activist; Daniel Pam, education and science specialist, entrepreneur; and Aisulu Abdibaeva, representative of Ohio State University and Arizona State in Kazakhstan.
The purpose of the visit is to discuss collaboration with KazNARU in the area of educational, research, and develop joint academic programs.
Chairman of the Board - Rector of KazNARU, President of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Kazakhstan Kurishbayev Akhilbek Kazhigulovich emphasized that partnerships with the US universities have been widely developed recently.
“This creates good potential for significant international interaction between higher education institutions of the two countries. For example, I recently met with the leadership of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, which is a leader in the development and implementation of projects, research and development in the field of agricultural technologies. Kazakhstan is one of the largest agro-industrial countries in the world, and the agro-industrial sector directly affects not only the country’s internal resources, but also its reputation in foreign markets. Therefore, we invite you to implement joint educational programs and conduct scientific research in agriculture,” said Akhylbek Kurishbayev.
For many years, the Ohio State University has been collaborating with KazNARU, especially on research in the study and development of various vaccines. Currently, one of our doctoral students is undergoing an internship at the Ohio State University.
In turn, Dr. Donald Pope Davis provided detailed information on the activities of the Ohio State University and emphasized the interest in creating double-degree education, exchange of students, teachers and research in the development of various vaccines.
The guests also spoke about the possibility of developing cooperation and partnership with the University of Arizona, which opened a double-degree education campus in Petropavlovsk, and proposed to conduct joint research on smart farms.
During the meeting, the parties came to a common opinion to continue to deepen fruitful mutually beneficial cooperation in information and consulting support in the field of higher education and science.
The US delegation visited the Institute for Work with Wageningen University, the Laboratory of Microclonal Propagation of Plants and Trees, the Kazakh-Japanese Innovation Center, the Agrotechnological Hub. Upon completion of the tour , they thanked the management of KazNARU for a constructive and useful meeting.
Press service of KazNARU.
