International cooperation

ENU is a member of the International Academy of Higher Education Sciences, the Eurasian Association of Universities and the Association of International Studies of the CIS and Baltic Countries, the International Association of Universities and the European Association of Higher Education Institutions. In 2005, the university signed the Magna Carta of the Universities of Europe in Bologna (Italy).

ENU was the first Kazakh university to enter the top 500 best universities in the world according to the rating agency QS World Universities (2010).

International cooperation is carried out on the basis of 343 agreements with foreign universities, research centers and organizations from 52 countries. ENU implements 30 joint educational programs with 13 partner universities (of which 8 programs are within the framework of the CIS SU, 4 – within the framework of the USCO and 18 – within the framework of interuniversity agreements). The University, based on memoranda of cooperation with foreign and domestic universities, allows teaching staff to undergo academic mobility and give lectures at foreign universities. This mobility is implemented both within the framework of memoranda and within the framework of the international Erasmus+ and Mevlana programs.

As part of academic mobility, 563 students studied at foreign universities, and 844 foreign students studied at ENU. More than 1,500 university students study in English in 632 academic disciplines.

L.N. Gumilyov ENU cooperates with the Center of the Bologna Process and Academic Mobility Enik-Kazakhstan, whose main function is scientific, methodological and information-analytical support for the implementation of the parameters of the Bologna process in the system of higher and postgraduate education in Kazakhstan, as well as accounting and analysis of educational programs by type.

Scientists from such countries as China, Russia, USA, Turkey, Poland, Spain, Italy, Hungary, Czech Republic, Germany, etc. are involved in the implementation of educational programs. In addition to the implementation of the program of financing foreign specialists at the expense of ENU funds on a long-term basis, since 2020, a program of attracting foreign specialists on a remote basis at the expense of the budget is being implemented ENU. Every year, according to the request of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan, foreign scientists are attracted to ENU at the expense of the republican budget. Along with this, cooperation with embassies is expanding, as well as other organizations that provide funding for attracting foreign specialists within the framework of various extra-budgetary types of financing, such as Erasmus+, communication, government grants from foreign countries (Italy, Spain, Poland, Hungary, Turkey, etc.).

Taking into account the current trends aimed at internationalization of educational and scientific activities of the university, increasing the requirements for the competitiveness of educational products in the domestic and foreign markets, as well as taking into account the need to modernize the personnel potential, the Department of Chemistry considers international cooperation as a tool to achieve its goals and objectives. Attracting foreign professors, such as N.N. Barashkov, V.V. Krivchenko. The joint educational process is one of the mandatory stages of the internationalization of the educational and scientific activities of the Institute.

At the Department of Chemistry, Professor of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte N.N. Barashkov read the courses: "Luminescent solar concentrates", "Synthesis of chromophore-containing polymers and dye polymer compositions", "Physico-chemical methods for studying the structure of fluorescent organic compounds" for doctoral students of the 1st year in the period from April 26 to May 16, 2019; Professor of the National Research Tomsk State University Bakibaev A.B. (2017) (RF), Professor of the Abo Academy (Finland) Filippov S. (ÅboAkademiUniversity, Turku, Finland) (2021), PhD in Krivchenko.A. (Russian Federation, Dubna State University) (2021), etc.

The management of the EP and teaching staff of the Chemistry department systematically carries out an active exchange of experience with leading domestic and foreign universities, establishes contacts with the leadership of foreign universities for cooperation to create double-degree programs. So, in December 2021, the head of the Department of Chemistry E.E. Kopishev met with the rector of the Grodno State University named after Ya. Kupala (GrSU named after Ya. Kupala) Kiturko Irina Fedorovna. During the meeting, interest was expressed in cooperation with the L.N. ENU. Gumilyov in the development of double-degree education, internationalization processes, academic mobility of teaching staff and students.

The teaching staff of the department not only improve their qualifications, but also go to lecture at other universities. Professor of the Department of Chemistry Dosmagambetova S.S. at the invitation of the Mirzo Ulugbek National University of Uzbekistan gave a course of lectures on "Selected chapters of analytical chemistry", as well as a course of lectures on "Extraction of inorganic substances" at the Tashkent Pharmaceutical Institute. In the 2020-2021 academic year, Professor S.B. Rakhmadieva (discipline "Bioorganic Chemistry"), Acting Professor T.T. Mashan (discipline "Physical research methods" and Acting Associate Professor of the Department of Chemistry E.E. Kopishev (discipline "General Chemical Technology") within the framework of academic mobility conducted online classes at Bukhara State University (Republic of Uzbekistan). In the 2021-2022 academic year, teachers of the Chemistry Department of Acting Professor N.M. Omarova and Associate Professor G.K. Tazhkenova conducted online classes at the Nukus State Pedagogical Institute named after Azhiniyaz (Republic of Uzbekistan) as part of academic mobility. Our teachers conduct classes for students, as well as direct the research work of students, are the heads of theses of students of foreign universities.

In the 2021-2022 academic year, under the Bolashak presidential scholarship, Associate Professor Uali A.S. left for an internship in the UK. Also, 2 more teachers became Bolashak fellows: R.I. Dzhalmakhanbetova and a 0.25-rate part-time Iskakova Zh.

The department is actively working on the development of international relations and concludes memorandums of cooperation with leading universities of the near and far abroad. Thus, the University has signed Memoranda with the following foreign universities and research institutes: Dubna State University (RF), Tomsk State Polytechnic University (RF), Gazi University (Turkey), University of Reading (UK), University of Karachi (Pakistan), Florida State University (USA), Saratov Research University named after N.G. Chernyshevsky University (Russia), Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Moscow, Russia), Szeged University (Hungary), Mara University of Technology (Malaysia), Institute of Problems of Chemical Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Chernogolovka, Russia), Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium).

In order to improve the EP and strengthen the research work of undergraduates, the department cooperates with research organizations and institutes, and also directs its undergraduates to study abroad, for example, there is a joint EP with the Dubna State University.

Professors of the Department of Chemistry are members of international scientific, academic organizations: Yerkasov Professor R.Sh.- ah academician of the PC (since 2006), Professor Amerkhanova Sh.K. – Royal Chemical Society, Great Britain (2008-2021), European Colloids and Interfaces Society, the Netherlands (2009-2021), proceedings of the Scientific Society of the USA (2013-2021).