On 12 February, 2021 a unique international online workshop was held by Oleg Sidorov, Ph. D., editor-in-chief of the magazine «Ilin», which is published in the capital of the Republic of Sakha /Yakutia/, Yakutsk.
On January 29, 2021, the Zoom platform hosted the first online master class for future editors, publishers and designers. A well-known publicist, journalist Bakhtiyar Tokhtakhunov, editor-in-chief of the republican "Yuridicheskaya Gazeta" held a master class.
The Faculty of Journalism of the Al-Farabi Kazakh National University hosted an international scientific online conference "Publishing and the Literary process: writer, editor, reader", dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the talented writer, poet, scientist and journalist Nurzhan Kuantayev.
Al-Farabi KazNU has issued a textbook "Culture of world and national publishing" for students and undergraduates in the specializations "Publishing", "Polygraphy", "Design", "Journalism".
The 3rd International Conference Elsevier Science Day in Kazakhstan on 2-3 December 2020 was held online. The forum for two days riveted the attention of young scientists, including those from the Al-Farabi Kazakh National University.
On November 13, 2020, the Department of Publishing-editing and design art of the faculty of Journalism of al-Farabi Kazakh National University, has organized an international scientific and practical online conference "Current Issues and Challenges Faced in publishing industry”. It was organized to mark the 70th anniversary of the scientist-bibliographer, publisher, editor, candidate of Philology, associate Professor Konyr Mukatayeva.
The year of 2020 was remembered not only as the year of the “pandemic”, but also as the “Year of Abai”. The anniversary of Abai Kunanbaiuly was celebrated by almost all higher educational institutions of the country. One held a scientific conference, the other celebrated the legacy of Abai with poetry events. In this direction, at the Kazakh National Women's Pedagogical University has been organized republican aitys "Olen-sozding patshasy", where among young poets a student of the specialty "Publishing" Nurbol Zhauynbayev won the Grand Prix.
