In Japan (Tokyo), head of Al-Farabi Kazakh National University’s academician Galym Mutanov in the framework of International Symposium "The role of universities in the age of globalization: in search of new directions" presented the internationalization experience of the leading university in Kazakhstan.

Along with the 11 universities of the former Soviet Union, KazNU participated in the symposium of the Tsukuba University grant project "Global education program for training in economic and scientific fields of multilingual system for Japan, the CIS and the Baltic States".

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Kazakhstan in Japan Akylbek Kamaldinov, as well as Russian Federation, Uzbekistan and Belarus Ambassadors, greeted the participants of the Symposium. Congratulations to the participants of the symposium were made by the Department of Higher Education of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan, and the Department of European Affairs of Japan.

The main event of the meeting became the signing of Memorandum "Initiative campus in campus" with plans for further cooperation by Rector G.M.Mutanov and President Kyosuke Nagata. According to the Memorandum, both universities will provide their campuses for the partner university to take advantage of research and education resources. The agreement was signed for the next 5 years and will promote the increasing of mobility, it will also develop a system of training for graduates, who will be able to navigate in a rapidly changing world.

Consistent continuation of this agreement became the Memorandum of Understanding on the official opening of the Center for the Japanese and Central Asian Studies at the Far East and South Asian Studies Department, Faculty of Oriental Studies, KazNU.

Far East and South Asian Studies Department