The document provides information about Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, including its faculties, research institutes, professors, students, and international cooperation. It summarizes that Al-Farabi Kazakh National University has 14 faculties, 2 national labs, 7 international research centers, and 8 research institutes with over 2,000 professors and researchers and more than 20,000 students. It is a leader in accreditation and certification of engineering programs in Central Asia and has agreements with Columbia University and other international partners.

1. Dean of the Faculty
of Geography and Environmental
Sciences
Professor Vitaly Salnikov
Vitali.Salnikov@kaznu.kz

2. 14 faculties
2 national labs
7 international research
centers
8 Research Institutes
2 000 professors and reseachers
More than 20 000 students

3. LEADER IN ACCREDITATION & CERTIFICATION
OF ENGINEERING PROGRAMS IN CENTRAL ASIA

4. TEMPUS PROJECT QUEECA SUPPORTED BY EU
QUEECA – Quality of Engineering Education in Central Asia
Purpose: setting up and implementing a system of Quality Assurance of
Engineering Education (EE) in Central Asian countries, finalized to the
pre-professional accreditation of engineering programmes (i.e.
accredition of educational programmes as entry route to the eng.
profession).
MEMBERS:

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INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION

6. AGREEMENT with EARTH INSTITUTE
at COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
NYC &CALIFORNIA
World Bank
HP

7.  Since October 6th , 2011, KazNU
became a partner of Columbia
University’s program, «Integrated
Approaches
to
Sustainable
Development Practice»
for
Master and PhD students;
 The
program
covers
24
universities from
the South
America, Africa, Asia, Europe
and the North America;
 This program is the beginning of
dual degree programs with the
US universities.

9. Meeting with Ramu Damodaram
Deputy Director for Partnership
and Public Engagement,
Outreach Division, Department of
Public Information in New York,
USA
October, 2011

10. RESULTS OF THE SIDE-EVENT
“GREEN BRIDGE THROUGH GENERATIONS”
OF UN GLOBAL CONFERENCE RIO+20
PROPOSED the formation of a unified educational
space and strengthening of the role of youth in
sustainable development issues solution
INITIATED international project "Green
Bridge through generations" under the
auspices of the UN
Established Universities International
Consortium
PROPOSED virtual communication platform
www.greenbridge.kaznu.kz

11. INTERNATIONAL PROJECT OF AL-FARABI KAZNU
“GREEN BRIDGE THROUGH GENERATIONS”
“…It is necessary to strive to ensure that GREEN BRIDGE would exist not only
between states, scientific and business communities, and public
institutions, but between GENERATIONS too”
“GREEN BRIDGE THROUGH GENERATIONS” is the INCUBATOR FOR THE FUTURE ACTIVITY
OF “GREEN BRIDGE” PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM
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THE AIM is to involve youth in promotion of the initiatives of the President of Kazakhstan
Nursultan NAZARBAYEV – Global Energy and Ecological Strategies for Sustainable Development
and "Green Bridge" Partnership Program
Uniting opportunities of leading scientific institutions in field of sustainable development,
and energy and environmental safety, as well as creation of Universities’ Consortium
Development and implementation of scientific and applied innovative projects in the
field of green economy
Formation of training and retraining mechanisms for specialists in sustainable
development and promotion of green technologies

12. X-th RUSSIA-KAZAKHSTAN INTERREGIONAL COOPERATION FORUM
ORGANIZED IN THE FRAME OF KAZAKHSTAN AND RUSSIA
PRESIDENTS’ MEETING
CREATION OF THE EURASIAN PLATFORM
GREEN BRIDGE THROUGH GENERATIONS

14. MISSION OF
THE HUB
СЕТЕВОЕ
ПОКРЫТИЕ
Creating scientific and informative platform
for the collection and exchange of
information,
and
experience
and
knowledge sharing in the field of sustainable
development
Countries of Central Asia (Kazakhstan,
Kyrgyzstan,
Uzbekistan,
Tajikistan
and
Turkmenistan). In perspective there could be
considered the participation of other
countries of the subregion

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The main purpose of UNESCO regional hub is to mobilize the
educational, research and community activities of the
universities for favorable solutions in the field of sustainable
development in Asian region
UNESCO Regional Hub for Sustainable Development
at Al-Farabi Kazakh National University

16. UNITED NATIONS ORGANIZATION
Environment Program
Green Bridge
“Sustainable Energy
for Everyone” Program
Green Bridge
through Generations
Sustainable
Development Program
Academic Impact
Program
Climate Change
Program
REGIONAL UNESCO HUB ON SUSTAINABLE
DEVELOPMENT IN CENTRAL ASIA
CENTRAL ASIAN UNIVERSITIES
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Spatial organization
and demography
Desertification
Lack of water
Дефицит водных
resources
ресурсов
UNESCO HUB
ON SUSTAINABLE
DEVELOPMENT IN
CENTRAL ASIA
Emergency
Чрезвычайные risks
situations and
ситуации и риски
Aral sea issue
Climate change
adaptation
SINGLE INFORMATION SPACE
VIRTUAL COMMUNICATION PLATFORM
SUB-REGION UNIVERSITIES
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN CENTRAL ASIA
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18. Faculty of Geography and Environmental Sciences
DEPARTMENT OF METEOROLOGY AND
HYDROLOGY

19. STRUCTURE OF EDUCATION
Bachelor
4 years
Education - DAY
Master 2 years
Study of language–
kazakh, russian and
english
PhD
3 years
RGP«KazNIEК»
MOOS RK
Institute of Geography
Ministry of Defence of RK
RNPIC
Kazecology Institute of Space
Researches
LTD Ecoterra

20. THE SCHEME OF THE EDUCATIONAL PROCESS
State
compulsory
module –
Basic professional modules – 115
credits
10 credits
Sociocommunicative
module –
Natural science
(STEM)
module–
12 credits
Basic
professional
modules –
69 credits
4 credits
Interdisciplinary
module–
4 credits
Additional
types of
training
Modules individual educational
trajectories (IET) – 30 credits
IET 1
IET 2
IET 3
Professional
practice –
12 credits
Final
certification
– 2 credits

21. MAIN AREAS OF RESEARCH DEPARTMENT THE
DIRECTION "HYDROLOGY"
EVALUATION AND PREDICTION OF
SURFACE OF WATER RESOURCES IN
KAZAKHSTAN
Long-term climate variability
and runoff, and maximum levels
consumption of water problems
transboundary basins
Statistical modeling
hydrological series,
hydrological forecasts
Hydrological and
water management calculations
calculation of elements of water
balance of mountain watersheds
Assessment of anthropogenic
impact on runoff
Kazakhstan
Research of hydroecology and
hydrochemical rate of water
storage basin of RK
Integrated Water Resources
Management
Research of water
balances and
problems of irrigated
land
Floods
Mudslides
Dangerous
hydrological events

22. RESEARCH PROGRAMS AND PROJECTS IN
"METEOROLOGY"
Weather forecasting, assessment of the extent of contamination and
protection of the atmosphere
Assess trends in climate change, renewable energy, agro-meteorology,
climatic and recreational features of Kazakhstan
Desertification and natural hazards Kazakhstan.
Dangerous meteorological processes
Spatio-temporal patterns of change in climatic potential
pollution
Variability of agroclimatic resources of Kazakhstan in terms of global
warming

23. TEMPUS 2012 I-WEB
«IWEB-INTEGRATING WATER CYCLE MANAGEMENT:
CAPABILITY, CAPACITY AND IMPACT IN EDUCATION AND
BUSINESS WORKSHOP»

24. PROJECT OBJECTIVES
 training of highly qualified specialists : Masters and PhD
students in the field of IPM ;
 development of educational programs for master's and
doctoral studies in accordance with the principles of the
Bologna Process ;
 maintaining cooperation Kazakhstani universities with
professional regulatory organizations and businesses in the
IPM

25. PARTNERS OF THE PROJECT
 Kazakh National University. Al-Farabi ;
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Middlesex University , Chief
Coordinator (London, UK );
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 Polytechnic University of
Valencia (Spain);
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 University of Leipzig
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(Germany);
 University of Cyprus (
Nicosia, Cyprus) .
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ICGS them . Yassaui ;
KSU . Sh.Ualikhanov ;
Committee for Control of Education and
Science of RK ;
Centre Bologna process and academic mobility
MES ;
Regional Environmental Center for Central
Asia ;
KF "Jas Otan " Akmola region ;
Institute of Geography of the Republic of
Kazakhstan ;
Kazakh Research Institute of Water Resources
;
Kazakh Research Institute of Fisheries ;
Institute of Professional Development and

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27. FORUMS of Asian Universities:
1-3 December 2011
24-26 January 2013
21-23 May, 2014
1st: Cooperation
in education and research
in developing countries
of Asia: creation of new
Asian values
2nd: Creating a new vision
for the future
of Asian universities
3rd: Role of Asian Universities
in Meeting Challenges
Of Sustainable Development
Seuol National University,
Korea
Chulalongkorn University,
Thailand
Al-Farabi KazNU,
Almaty, Kazakhstan
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28. Thank you for your kind attention!