KazNU discussed the issues of SDGs implementation
Al-Farabi KazNU hosted the round table ‘International scientific and academic co-operation in solving urgent problems of natural sciences and humanities to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals’.
The meeting was attended by: representatives of the delegation of Michigan State University (Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA), leading professors of the Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies of Michigan State University (MSU), professors, scientists, teachers and students of Al-Farabi KazNU.
Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor, Dean of the Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology Meruert Kurmanbaeva made a welcoming speech. In her speech she noted the importance of cooperation between scientists from different countries to achieve common Sustainable Development Goals and spoke about the cooperation between KazNU and Michigan State University (MSU). The visit of scientists from MSU served as an occasion for signing a new memorandum of co-operation between KazNU and MSU. ‘Currently, the world is facing a multitude of environmental, social and economic challenges that require scientific knowledge and innovative approaches,’ the dean emphasised. - The UN Sustainable Development Goals are our common action plan for a sustainable future, and scientific as well as academic co-operation plays a key role in achieving them’.
The Director of the Ban Ki-moon Institute for Sustainable Development, Mr Jançaïa Y. I. Ian, Director of the Ban Ki-moon Institute for Sustainable Development, said. Zhansaya Isayeva, Director of the Ban Ki-moon Institute for Sustainable Development, spoke about the activities of Al-Farabi KazNU in the implementation of the SDGs, which in 2014 received the status of the UN Academic Impact Global Hub for Sustainability.
Other speakers at the meeting included Vladimir Tarabara, Director of the Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies at MSU, Steven Pupke, Professor in the Department of Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences at Michigan State University, Norman Graham, Professor of International Relations at the James Madison College of Public Affairs, Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies at MSU, and others.
The participants of the round table discussed the prospects of international scientific and academic co-operation in solving urgent fundamental and applied problems of natural and human sciences and stimulating the development of broad co-operation to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Modern approaches to water purification from various pollutants, including salts and oil pollution, botanical research on solving problems of environmental and food security, issues of efficient and safe agro-technologies, the role of multilateral international collaboration in the field of humanities, social and natural sciences in achieving the UN SDGs were discussed.
Press-service of Al-Farabi Kazakh National University
