Cooperation between «Abai Kazakh National Pedagogical University» NJSC and scientific organisations (research institutes)

The strategic development of Abai KazNPU as a pedagogical research university is provided by the following objectives:

The formation of a competitive research type university based on the integration of university and academic science and implementation of new scientific achievements in the educational process.

Conducting research in a wide range of scientific fields and especially in those areas that are a priority in terms of development of socio-cultural sphere in the framework of «Mangilik El», «Ruhani Zhangyru» programs and solving problems of the national education system through the transfer of the results of research activities in advanced methods and technologies of education.

Development of human resources capacity through encouraging young scientists, teachers and students and attracting highly qualified specialists from leading research organizations to teaching and scientific design.

All this can be achieved by integrating the efforts of university teams and national research organizations. Specific organizational forms of integration could be:

- joint creative teams implementing research projects financed on a competitive basis; further, if possible, start-ups;

- centers of excellence, formed on the basis of university together with the country`s research institutes;

- Scientific and educational consortium of the university with research institutes, the aim of which will be problem-based training of students, undergraduates, doctoral candidates by leading scientists of research institutes of the country on topical issues of modern science.

Abai KazNPU has some experience of such cooperation. This idea originated at the scientific and practical conference «Integration of Higher Education and Science» on May 21, 2019, where directors and leading scientists from 19 national research institutes were invited as guests and speakers. The outcome of the conference was the decision to implement joint research projects and the signing of memoranda of cooperation.

In 2020 there will be 15 such projects financed by the grants of Abai KazNPU, for a total amount of 50 million tenge. In 2021, 8 projects worth 39 million tenge were prolonged based on performance results. These are integration projects implemented by scientific organisations - the Institute of History and Ethnology named after Ch. Valikhanov, the Institute of Philosophy, Political Science and Religious Studies, the Institute of Mathematics and Mathematical Modelling, the Scientific Centre of Microbiology and Virology, the Institute of Linguistics named after A.Baitursynuly, research institutes and centres of Al-Farabi Kazakh National University.

The cooperation resulted in publications in foreign journals indexed in the database Scopus (Web of Science) with high percentile and obtaining important scientific data for the preparation of doctoral theses of Abai KazNPU.

Today, Abai KazNPU continues to collaborate with the following research institutes:

- Institute of Metallurgy and Concentration;
- Kazakhstan-Japan Innovation Center;
- Bekturov Institute of Chemical Sciences;
- Institute of Combustion Problems;
- Green Chemical Technology Institute;
- Institute of Botany and Phytointroduction;
- Institute of Geography and Water Security;
- D.V. Sokolsky Institute of Fuel, Catalysis and Electrochemistry;
- Institute of Zoology (republican state enterprise on the right of economic management);
- Institute of Oriental Studies named after R. B. Suleimenov; Institute of Zoology. R. B. Suleimenov Institute of Oriental Studies;
- M.O. Auezov Institute of Literature and Art;
- A. Baitursynuly Institute of Linguistics;
- Institute of Information and Computing Technology of the Committee of Science of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan;
- Institute of Mathematics and Mathematical Modelling Committee of Science of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan;
- Joldasbekov Institute of Mechanics and Engineering named after Academician U.A. Joldasbekov Committee of Science of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan; Institute of State History;
- The Institute of State History;
- Institute of History and Ethnology named after Ch. Ch. Valikhanov Institute of History and Ethnology;
- Kazakh Research Institute of Culture;
- Institute of Psychological and Social Support;
- Republican State Enterprise on the right of economic management «Republican Scientific and Practical Centre for Mental Health of the MH RK»;
- Republican State Enterprise under the right of economic management «Bobek» National Scientific and Practical, Educational and Recreational Centre of Mental Health of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Kazakhstan; National State Enterprise «Bobek»;
- Institute of Legislation and Legal Information of the Republic of Kazakhstan;
- Institute of Nuclear Physics (Republican State Enterprise on the right of economic management).