On October 16, 2020, a working meeting of the teaching staff of the UNESCO Chair on Sustainable Development of KazNU named after al-Farabi, represented by the head of the department T.A. Bazarbayeva, associate professor R.A. Alybaeva, teacher A.A. Oshakbai with the management of the branch of Ekoservice-S LLP S.А. Askarov.
On September 7, 2020 in honor of the International Day of Clean Air for the Blue Sky a webinar organized by COMSATS Center for Climate and Sustainable Development (CCCS) was held. The purpose of conducting this webinar was to gather together experts and practitioners working in the field of air quality to share their knowledge, experience and risks in the field of air pollution, which is a serious problem. The webinar was attended by representatives from different countries, such as Kazakhstan, China, Japan, Pakistan, Tanzania and others.
This year marks 29 years since the signing of a very important historical document "Decree of the President of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic of August 29, 1991, № 409" on the closure of the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site. In honor of the important date, the youth organization "Nevada-Semey" Al-Farabi KazNU held a round table on the topic "Closing the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site" in an online format on the Zoom platform.
The traditional contest entitled «Best Young Scientist of Al-Farabi KazNU» was held as part of the International scientific conference of students and young scientists «Farabi alemi» on April 6-9, 2020.
According to UNESCO, due to restrictions imposed on the spread of coronavirus, more than 1.5 billion children and adults around the world do not attend schools and universities. More than 160 countries have taken measures throughout their territory, affecting more than 87% of the global student population. Other countries have implemented local closures of schools and educational institutions. The quarantine associated with the COVID-19 pandemic is the first in the history of Kazakhstan in its scale.
During my career in various companies, I often remotely discussed various issues: I participated in seminars, negotiations with colleagues on Skype and WhatApp, once in the Space Flight Control Center I talked on radio communications with our astronaut aboard the ISS Aydin Aimbetov.
Digital Kazakhstan is a future in which every citizen of the country uses their smartphone/computer to perform many important actions. And at the same time, it does not spend the most valuable resources – time and energy. This future has already begun today. In my turn, as a novice teacher at one of the country's leading universities, I am convinced of this by using modern technologies in the process of distance learning.
On March 10, 2020, at 19:00 in the assembly hall of the dormitory №4 held an educational event on the theme "Тыңдай білу, түсіне білу, сендіре білу, түсіндіре білудің артықшылықтары".
Master and PhD students in Hydrology of the Department of Meteorology and Hydrology were trained in one of the leading scientific centres of China at the Institute of Aerospace Research (AIR CAS) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing from November 23 to December 2 in 2019.
On December 3, 2019, Young scientists and Doctoral Students of the Department of Meteorology and Hydrology took part in a coordination meeting of participants in the U-Inspire Central Asia (DACRYN) youth Disaster Risk Reduction network. During the meeting, reports were presented on promoting youth development in science for DRR and the activities of DACRYN in Central Asia. The Summer Camps project was also developed for mudflows, landslides, droughts and earthquake response.
