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Kazakhstan|business|February 24, 2015 / 05:04 PM
Kazakhstan, Finland discuss cooperation in education

AKIPRESS.COM - Last week a three-day visit of the Kazakh delegation to Finland organized with the support of the Kazakh-Finnish Business Hub ended.

The delegation was led by Chairman of the Committee of Scienceof Kazakhsatn’s Ministry of Education and Science Sansyzbai Zholdasbaev and Rector of the Gumilev Eurasian National University Erlan Sydykov.

Recalling substantial discussions during the 2014 visit to Astana, Speaker of the Finnish Parliament Eero Heinäluoma emphasized the priority of cooperation with Kazakhstan in the field of education.

The Finnish side underlined that cooperation in the field of education had gained a new character: starting from the exchange of students and scientific-pedagogical staff now Kazakhstan and Finland were to launch joint educational programs. Heinäluoma is an Honorary Professor of Gumilev ENU.

In the Ministry of Education, the delegation was acquainted with the projects implemented by the Kazakh-Finnish innovation and education group. Representatives of educational institutions in Finland expressed strong interest in participating in the training of Kazakh specialists for the needs of the industrialization of our country, particularly in construction.

Of practical interest were developments of the Agency TEKES on commercialization of scientific research, taking into account existing work of L.Gumilev ENU Innovation Park.

Numerous meetings of the Kazakh delegation continued in the most famous Finnish "smart city" of Oulu – the twin of the Kazakh capital. An important outcome of the visit was the signing of a Memorandum of Cooperation between the ENU and the University of Oulu on the development of joint academic programs.

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