Research and Educational Center for German Studies

The main mission of the Center is to promote the development of research and educational process in cooperation with foreign universities and scientific institutes; also to promote and adapt the EU Educational Strategy (Bologna System) to the Al-Farabi Kazakh National University.

CGI cooperates fruitfully with DAAD. The German Academic Exchange Service annually provides scholarship programs for master's and doctoral studies in Germany; grants for language schools, research, etc.

The Center acts as a platform for the implementation of academic mobility programs, in particular, research practice of both Kazakhstani and foreign students and research interns is carried out on its basis. To do this, there are agreements with the universities of Hamburg, Bremen, Heidelberg, Bundeswehr (Hamburg), Darmstadt, Humboldt, with the Free University of Berlin; the European Academy of Berlin, the Institute of Regional and Global Studies/ GIGA, etc.

Master's and doctoral dissertations are being prepared in these areas, monographs, scientific articles, collections of conference materials are being published. CGI users are students, undergraduates, doctoral students, teachers. The center is open to everyone.