On March 15, 2021, at the Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, an advanced training course for journalists "Ecological journalism within the framework of Sustainable Development Goals" was launched as part of the implementation of the Memorandum of Understanding and Cooperation between the Ministry of Information and Social Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Al-Farabi Kazakh National University and the Ministry of Ecology, Geology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Kazakhstan, concluded in 2020.
The moderators of the training course were: Head of the Department of Printing and Electronic Media of the Faculty of Journalism, Professor Gulmira Sultanbaeva and Head of the UNESCO Chair for Sustainable Development of the Faculty of Geography and Environmental Sciences, Acting Professor Bazarbayeva Tursynkul.