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Central Asian scholars can receive up to £30,000 in research grants from the PEER Network organization. This international academic network unites 4 leading universities from Kazakhstan (NU), South Africa (Cape Town University), England (University of Sussex) and Northern Ireland (University of Ulster).

NU Career and Advising Center (NU CAC) has participated in a study on “International Trends and Innovation in Career Guidance” in the context of rapid changing labor markets and the future of work conducted by European Training Foundation (ETF). The ETF study highlighted the key role and ever-increasing importance of career guidance and how it responded to new challenges with innovative approaches in the EU, partner countries and internationally.

The new model developed by the ISSAI scientists can determine the location of miners underground based on Wi-Fi signals. Researchers from the Institute of Smart Technologies and Artificial Intelligence believe that their new development will help miners feel safer underground.

Scientists from NU’s Institute of Smart Systems and Artificial Intelligence presented their project on End-to-End Deep Diagnosis of X-ray Images. This service is available on the Institute’s website.

Dr. Jenni Lehtinen is an Assistant Professor of World Languages and Literatures at the School of Sciences and Humanities at NU.

Our guest today is Assem Ashimova, a doctoral student at the School of Sciences and Humanities studying in the Science, Engineering and Technology program. Assem became a laureate of the Daryn State Youth Prize in the Science nomination, which has been annually awarded since 1992 as state support to talented youth for fruitful scientific, creative, social activities, as well as for high sports achievements.

The NU Alumni Association is a public union created by a group of generous alumni in 2016. In November 2018, the association was officially registered as the NU Alumni Association.

The Kazakh language transition from Cyrillic to the Latin alphabet in Kazakhstan raises challenges in teaching the whole population to write and read in the new script. The NU CRP “CoWriting Kazakh” project (2020-2022) proposes a unique interdisciplinary approach by integrating innovative solutions from robotics, computer vision fields, and pedagogical strategies from education, linguistics, and cognitive sciences that will assist diverse demographic groups in this challenging endeavor.

On the 10th of January, elections to the Mazhilis and Maslikhats were held in Kazakhstan. We are pleased to inform you that two NU alumni were elected as deputies to the Mazhilis of the Parliament and Maslikhat of Almaty city.