As a result of the international agreements on mutual cooperation, made after visiting the exhibition EXPO-2017, on October 19, 2017, on the platform of the Interuniversity Academic Navigation Center in the field of mining and geology profile on the basis of the State Geological Museum, named after Vernadsky, the Russian Federation and the Republic of Kazakhstan hosted a teleconference timed to the year of ecology in Russia, which simultaneously connected Kazakhstani and Russian higher and secondary special educational institutions of the two countries in the “live” mode (online).

The format of this meeting was the lecture led by Professor G.B. Naumova “Biosphere in which we live.” Discussion in questions and answers.

Titova Asya Vladimirovna, head of the Interuniversity Academic Navigation Center for Mining and Geological Profiles, deputy director for the development of the Gomel Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, and Malyshev Yuri Nikolaevich – President of the GGM RAS, President of the Academy of Mining Sciences, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Oleg Nikolayevich Soskovets, President of the Association of Financial and Industrial Groups of the Russian Federation, President of the Russian Union of Producers, Vice President of the Academy of Mining Sciences, started discussion with introductory words;

18 educational institutions took part in the teleconference, among them: the Russian State University of Oil and Gas (NIU) named after Gubkin, NITU “MISiS”, Belarusian State Technological University, Karaganda State Technical University, Karaganda State Industrial University, Kuzbass State Technical University named after T.F. Gorbachev, Kemerovo Mining Technical College, Northern (Arctic) Federal University named after MV Lomonosov, Aldan Polytechnic College, Mining and Geological College, Bodaibo Mining College, Grozny State Petroleum Technical University named after Academician M.D. Millionschikov, Nizhny Novgorod State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Almetyevsk State Petroleum Institute and Kazan Federal University.

Summarizing the results of the teleconference, Kazakhstani and Russian participants of the meeting noted the usefulness and fruitfulness of contacts of this type aimed at expanding and strengthening the common information space.