On November 25th 2010 at 11.00 TEMPUS PERSEUS round table “Education-Science - Production” was held at al-Farabi university. It was organized by the Center for applied linguistics and cross-cultural communication with an assistance of industry and entrepreneurship department of Almaty municipal. The representatives of local and international companies such as POSCO, LG, Kookmin bank, Scientific Research Institute, university stuff and students participated in the round table.
The aim of the event was to activate University as a socially useful establishment, to make close corporate ties, oriented and related with important changes in development, exchange areas both in the university and in external macroeconomic environment, similarly on business necessity and strengthening competitiveness.
The coordinator Bimagambetova Zh.T. presented and reported primary purposes and objects on TEMPUS PERSEUS week "Education-Science-Production", REDIC opening and further plans on the project realization.
Science and production dialogue was conducted in an open and cordial way. During discussion on issues in model interaction establishment between the university and industrial structures the Commodity Producers and Processing Industry Association of the RK under director Ms. Bezrukova N.S. reported concrete offers on holding joint activities with the university.
The Kookmin bank which was represented by Mr.Khan Sang Don, General manager during discussion of international partnership issues interested everybody in creation of joint Scientific Research Center oriented in professional development on financial technology study with getting international certificates.
Innovative technologies commercialization «from idea to product” was showed on the example of Combustion Institute of al-Farabi university. The Director, prof. Mansurov Z.M. presented procedure and results of nanomaterial area development on different functional settings on the base of research.
The director of POSCO Kazakhstan presented a new management competence strategy development and confirmed further collaboration in supporting of international academic grants for KazNU students.
Prof. Drobishev A.S. at “Innovative activity in KazNU – problems, results, perspectives” presentation outlined the main problem in “absence of qualified managers and scientists owing knowledge and skills in effective commercialization of scientific-academic activity results, innovative companies and projects managing” Mr. Dmitryi Pak, LG company project-manager, not only presented the company strategy but offered language internship on their enterprise.
Associate prof. Makashev E.P. shared how effectively is conducted attraction of young scientists, talented students in scientific-applied researches and presented joint development “Programmatic complex of oil processing reactors” which was approved by Almaty municipal as the best research and was granted by 2000000 tenge.
Therefore, during three hours of lively discussion both sides concluded to interact jointly where further closed cooperation basics have been made for strengthening world competiveness and to improve a new model of al-Farabi University in the light of modern education paradigm.
