TOOLS FOR INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION IN KAZAKHSTANI UNIVERSITIES

Akmaral Kairbayeva – Associate Professor, Head of International Cooperation department

S. TORAIGHYROV PAVLODAR STATE UNIVERSITY

2015

Quick Facts• Full Name: Republic of Kazakhstan

• Independence: Dec 16, 1991

• Population: 17.417.5 (source: www.stat.kz, data valid for January 1, 2015)

• Capital: Astana

• Borders: Russia, China, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan

• Largest cities: Almaty, Karaganda, Shymkent

• Major languages: Kazakh and Russian

Higher Education in Kazakhstan• Number of HEI: 126 (49 public universities)

• Student body: 477 387 • Faculty: 40 320• Source: Committee on Statistics of the Ministry of National Economy (www.stat.kz)

S. TORAIGHYROV PAVLODAR STATE UNIVERSITY

Established in 1960Student body: 5200 Faculty: 5678 faculties, 34 departments, 17 research centers

TOOLS FOR UNIVERSITY INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION

Joint programsDouble diploma programsJoint research programs Membership in international organizations and associationsInternational programs, contests, forumsAgreements Academic mobility of studentsAcademic mobility of faculty

Membership of S. Toraighyrov Pavlodar state university in international associations

European University Association (ЕUA), since October, 2014International Association for the Exchange of Students for Technical Experience (IAESTE), since November, 2003Association of Educational and Research Institutions “Siberian Open University”, since September, 2005Central Asian Foundation for Management Development (CAMAN), since November, 2006 Academy of Electro-Technical Sciences of Russian Federation , since November, 2007Association of Asian Universities – since 2013Member of the Magna Charta of Universities (Bologna, Italy), since September, 2009Shanghai Cooperation Organization , since 2009

Cooperation with universities from near and far abroad

Agreements

TEMPUS projects in PSU

Methodology for the Formation of Highly Qualified Engineers at Masters Level in the Design and Development of Advanced Industrial Informatics Systems

Project Coordinator and Leading Organization:Polytechnic University of Valencia (Spain)

Development and Implementation of Masters Programs in Food Safety and the Production and Marketing of Traditional Food Products in Russia and Kazakhstan

Project Coordinator and Leading Organization:Montpellier SUPAGRO (France)

Promoting Educational Organization through People

Project Coordinator and Leading Organization:Kazakh Economic University(Kazakhstan)

PSU is a partner university in 3 TEMPUS projects

Visit purposeslecturing, seminars, workshops, advising

Russia

Poland

Ukraine

Azerbaijan

Belarus

Uzbekistan

USA

Canada

Germany

Ireland

Turkey

Czech

Spain

Bulgaria

Hungary

Slovenia

Latvia

United Kingdom

Romania

Foreign scholars at PSU

Number of scholars

Funding

Italy

Presidential scholarship BOLASHAK

In the period between 2010-2014, 33 faculty members and students of PSU have been awarded Bolashak scholarship

20112012 20132014

10 86 9

Research internships of graduate and postgraduate students

Graduate students

Czech

Poland

Russia

GermanyLatvia

Austria

Kirgizstan

Korea

Postgraduate students

Lithuania

Turkey

Great Britain

Mongolia

China

External academic mobility

Students

Czech

Poland

Russia

Germany

Latvia

Austria

Lithuania

China

USA

Italy

Malta

Since 2011, Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan annually funds the “Academic Mobility” program

325credits

950credits

1188credits

International students

103 international students are studying in PSU in 2014-2015

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