At the Faculty of International Relations there was organized the annual international scientific conference «FARABI READINGS» among students and young scientists. Students of the specialty World economy-81 under the guidance of the lecturer Ualikhanuly A., Yusupov Utkirbek and Iztyleu Akmaral took 2nd and 3rd places in the sections «Languages of the UN» and «Translation as a means of intercultural communication».

On April 3-9, 2019, the final III round of the Republican Olympiad “Al-Farabi” took place in the al-Farabi Library. The Olympiad was organized by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Republican Scientific and Practical Center “Daryn” and al-Farabi Kazakh National University. The developers of test tasks in German and French and members of the competition jury were lecturers of the department of diplomatic translation of International Relations Faculty - Kotiyeva.L.M, Matkerimova R.A, Mukhametkalieva G.O.

On April 11, 2019, the 10th Summer Universiade of the Republic of Kazakhstan was held at KazNU. The 3rd year student of the Faculty of International Relations Serik Pakhridinov took the 1st place in taekwondo.

Zhakssylykbayeva Assem, a 4-year student of IRF took 1st place at Farabi Readings!

On April 10, 2019, legal consultants of #Deloitte Maxim Bazhenov and Alibi Akylas took part in the round table "dispute Resolution within the WTO", organized by the Department of international law Al-Farabi Kazakh National University at the VI International scientific conference of students and young scientists.

On 5-6 April 2019 al Farabi Kazakh National University within the framework of "VI International Farabi Readings" hosted the II International scientific conference "The Translation World of al Farabi and the Transformation of Intercultural Researches in the Aspect of Learning Foreign Languages".

The conference has been organized by Diplomativ Translation Department of International Relations Faculty of al Farabi Kazakh National University.

Prominent foreign scientists from Italy, Switzerland, Canada, Great Britain, Russia, South Korea, Poland and China and Kazakhstani scientists as well as the teaching staff, doctoral and master degree students of KazNU participated in it.The main purpose of the conference is to bring together the researchers, practitioners and teachers who are interested in teaching languages, linguistics and translation studies at all the levels.

The main task of the conference is to reconder and find new definitions to the key items of the agenda, as well as to identify the new opportunities of cooperation which will determine the trends for further researches and developments.

At the conference welcome speeches were made by Academician G.M.Mutanov, rector of al Farabi Kazakh National University; by Bultrikov R.I., Head of Foreign Affairs Representation in Almaty; by Pasquale D'Avino Extraordinary and Plenipotentionary Ambassador of Italy to Kazakhstan; by Philippe Martinet, Extraordinary and Plenipotentionary Ambassador of France to Kazakhstan; by Alexis Shahtakhtinsky, General Consul of France to Kazakhstan; by Jilles Mametz, Attache on University cooperation of the Embassy of France.

The foreign scientists and conference participants shared their impressions about the conference. The speakers in their reports have focused on the issues of the practical application of innovative technologies in polylingual education and intercultural communication.
In general, the conference achieved its goals by interpersonal communication, translation, discussion that made a deep impression on the conference participants. Markus Perlman, professor of the University of Birmingham (in the ranking of QS World Universities - the 85^th place and A. Akkari, professor of the University of Geneva (in the ranking of QS World Universities - the 105^th place) thanked our university for further cooperation. The foreign ambassadors and representatives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan expressed their readiness to support such conference that lead to creation of the bridge between countries and cultures.

At al-Farabi Kazakh National University there were held an annual competition “The best student group-2019”. The faculty of International Relations was represented by the group of the lecturer of the Department of Diplomatic translation Ualihanuly.A World economy-81. According to the results, this group has been advanced to the semi-final of the competition. The project “The best student group” is a unique project of the Union of students and undergraduates of Sunkar, which promotes the development of students, trains leaders, contributes to the development of the country. In the quarterfinal, each faculty which was taking part in the competition has demonstrated their 5-minute videos on the theme “Талайға арман болған, талайды қанат қақтырған ҚазҰУ”.

Professor of the University of Geneva (Switzerland) A. Akkari gives lectures at the Faculty of International Relations of the Al-Farabi Kazakh National University.

Diplomatic Translation Department of the Faculty of International Relations of al- Farabi Kazakh National University has invited Professor Abdeljalil Akkari from University of Geneva(Switzerland) to deliver lectures and hold seminars for Master's degree and PhD students and for the teaching staff, in particular, on such topics as 'Multilingual schooling, Quality Education, Cultural Diversity, Global Citizenship, etc. The participants were keenly interested in these issues and the feedback was very effective and mutually advantageous.University of Geneva takes the 105th place according to the QS World Universities Ranking.

Professor A.Akkari met with the first vice-rector of Al-Farabi KazNU. M.M. Burkitbaev. During the meeting, there were discussed issues of further cooperation between two universities. In turn, Professor A.Akkari held a course of lectures to students and undergraduates of the faculty on the themes: “Cultural diversity and international education”, Global citizenship and quality of education, “Multilingual education». In addition, for the faculty staff held a public lecture on the topic “Activities of international organizations and international education” and he held a public lecture on the topic “Language policy, cultural diversity and multilingual education” for students faculty of the philology and pedagogy. Each lecture of Professor A.Akkari was interesting and exchanged views. We were once again convinced that we still have something to learn from our foreign colleagues.

On March 18, at Faculty of international relations group IL-70 organized a charity fair under the leadership of A.B. Otarbayeva to raise funds for a people in need (large family). The pastries made by students of group acted as goods. Students and teachers of the faculty showed exceptional activity and redeemed the goods offered in a short time. Thanks to all who participated and showed kindness!

Today, on the eve of a beautiful spring holiday - International Women's Day, students of the specialty “International Law” of the Faculty of International Relations organized a concert for the beautiful female half of our faculty.