“Central Asian and Central European Higher Education Forum ECCE Mundus” international seminar will be held in Al-Farabi KazNU

On the 13-14 of March on the basis of Al-Farabi KazNU “Central Asian and Central European Higher Education Forum ECCE Mundus” international seminar will be organized. (Enhancing Cross-regional Cooperation in Erasmus Mundus)».

The seminar is organized by a consortium of Erasmus Mundus National Structures – Tempus Public Foundation, led by the Ministry of Education of Hungary, Austrian Agency for International Cooperation in Education and Research, Slovak Academic Association for International Cooperation, with the active support of government programs of Hungary «Campus Hungary» and «New Széchenyi Plan"

The seminar will be attended by Vice-Minister of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan Takir Balykbayev, Consul-General of Hungary in Almaty Ferenc Blaumann, the Rector of Al-Farabi KazNU academician Galim Mutanov, Tempus Public Foundation Coordinator Gábor Dobos, Tempus Public Foundation Coordinator in Kazakhstan Shaizada Tasbulatova, and almost 100 representatives of higher education institutions from 11 different countries such as Armenia, Austria, Georgia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Slovakia, Tajikistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan.

The purpose of the forum is to provide a networking opportunity and training in order to promote joint study programmes as well as student mobility between target regions of Central Asia, Eastern Europe and the Western Balkans within existing effective project tools of the European Commission.

The key event of the Forum will be the holding of a special training seminar ECCE MUNDUS to promote joint educational programs and academic mobility between the above mentioned target regions.

In addition, good practice examples from ongoing joint study programmes, international cooperation and the new programme, Erasmus+ will be presented.

Alongside with that, during the event will be organized a special platform for negotiations, the so-called «Market place», which will allow representatives of the participating universities to present their university and find new partners for cooperation in higher education through the development and implementation of joint master's programs aimed at promoting academic mobility.

Within the project a series of three ECCE Mundus Seminars were organized in 2012 Budapest and Vienna and in 2013 Bratislava.

Decision of The Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA), Brussel, Belgium to support the initiatives of the forum organizers to hold this event on the basis of Al-Farabi Kazakh National University is certainly a proof of recognition of KazNU’s successful cooperation for many years with European university partners in the EU projects. Today KazNU is the leader among the Kazakhstani universities in realizing Tempus Projects. The University has repeatedly acted as National Project Coordinator of Erasmus Mundus, representing the link between the European and national coordinators of partner universities; currently University acts as a joint coordinator of two Erasmus Mundus projects. This purposeful interaction enabled the University to better adapt to the basic principles of the Bologna process and to bring the academic policies of the University to the European standards.

Alongside with that, international seminars of this level at the University play an important role in the integration of the KazNU to the international educational space, increasing the recognition of the University in the world, and encouraging new forms of cooperation with the parties involved. This event surely will be one of the most significant events in the jubilee year in the life of the university.

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