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NU, the University of Lorraine and three French companies – Total Energies, Alstom, and Air Liquide – signed a trilateral Official Joint Statement on November 29, 2022, at a business forum in Paris where the Heads of state of Kazakhstan and France participated. Shigeo Katsu, President of NU, Vassilios Turassis, Vice Provost for Industry Relations, Dean of the School of Engineering and Digital Science, and Aliya Kaimoldinova, Head of the Office of Global Relation took part in the official signing ceremony.

The United Nations Development Program in Kazakhstan, together with the NU School of Sciences and Humanities, held a seminar for students on preventing discrimination and harassment in the universities of Kazakhstan on 18 November. During the seminar, the UNDP and UN Women experts presented key policies and tools for creating a safe environment in higher education institutions.

The NU Kazakh Stage student club presented a play based on Azilkhan Nurshaikov’s novel “Mahabbat, qyzyq mol jyldar” (“Years of Joy and Love”) at NU with the support of the NU Cultural Center “Rukhani Zhangyru”. The Kazakh-language performance drew a full house on November 15, 2022.

On November 14, 2022, as part of a guest lectures series, the Ambassador of Italian Republic to the Republic of Kazakhstan, Mr. Marco Alberti and President of the Food Future Institute, Mrs.

On November 5, NU held the Alumni Reunion which gathered together graduates from the 2015-2022 cohorts. NU is organizing an Alumni Reunion for the fourth time.

NU organizes the Seminar in cooperation with the International Association of School Counseling. The event will take place on November 18, 2022, at NU.

On November 2, 2022, as part of a guest lectures series, the Ambassador of the State of Israel to the Republic of Kazakhstan, Mr. Edwin Nathan Yabo Glusman, visited NU with a guest lecture on the topic: “Israel, innovation and the fourth industrial revolution.

From October 24 to 28, 2022, NU hosted the International Youth Forum of the Asian Universities Alliance on the theme: “Building a Meta Silk Road: Integration of Asian Cultures in the Real and Virtual Universe. ” About 40 participants, students from NU, University of Tokyo, Chula University, IIT Bombay, UAEU, HKUST, Seoul National University, University Malaya, and University of Colombo (online) together attended scientific workshops and seminars.

On October 26, 2022, NU hosted a round table “The role of corporate interaction of libraries in the digitalization of higher education in Central Asia. ”Event organizers: The Ministry of Science and Higher Education of Kazakhstan, International Center for Innovation in Higher Education with the support of UNESCO (UNESCO-ICHEI), The Association of Libraries of Higher Educational Institutions of Kazakhstan, and NU.

The 11th Eurasian Academic Libraries Conference will be held in Astana at NU on 27-28 October 2022. The conference organizers are The Ministry of Science and Higher Education of Kazakhstan, The Association of University Libraries of Kazakhstan and NU Library.