The XI Astana Economic Forum Global Challenges Summit (“Global Challenges Summit”) took place in the capital of Kazakhstan on May 17-19. This year, it was based on global trends: economic growth and resource sustainability, digitalization and urbanization, longevity and the financial revolution, global security and a cultural shift.

The forum was attended by more than 500 speakers and 5000 participants from 111 countries. Among the speakers are the eighth UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, co-founder of Apple Steve Wozniak, former French President Francois Olland, film director Kshishtof Zanussi, director of the Asian Bank for Infrastructure Investments Tzin Lutzin and many others.

The forum was opened by the President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev.

– The current forum is aimed at finding effective responses to global challenges. Today, historical time has reached unprecedented density. The world is changing at an incredible speed, once again in front of the fork. From where he will turn, it depends what the humanity expects: the epoch of prosperity or the period of stagnation, “said the head of state.

Nursultan Nazarbayev singled out the five major megatrends of the planet’s development: the digitalization of all aspects of humanity’s activity, the energy revolution of the world’s movement towards clean energy, the rapid growth of the world’s population, the change in the pace and nature of urbanization, and the transformation of the global labor market.

The forum has long been an international platform, connecting economic thought, idea and practice. For 10 years, more than fifty thousand delegates from 150 countries of the world took part in the event. The effect of the forum is from attracting international investors to the exchange of new ideas for the formation of an economic policy agenda in the country and in the world.

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The library of the Karaganda State Industrial University on May 17 received 1485 copies of books translated into Kazakh under the program “New Humanitarian Knowledge. 100 new textbooks in the Kazakh language “.

The books were published by the public foundation “Ulttyk audarma burosy” on the request of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

Translation into the Kazakh language of world works is historically significant for the country. The textbooks have been translated and published as part of the program to modernize public consciousness. The project “100 new textbooks” has a special role in educating the younger generation.

“Young people should receive knowledge corresponding to higher scientific standards,” President Nazarbaev noted at the presentation of the textbooks that took place in April this year in Astana. – Scientific knowledge is the main condition for the competitiveness of the modern nation. New textbooks are a real encyclopedia of knowledge. Now it is important not only the method of education, but also its content. In this regard, the program “Ruhani zhangyru” provides an opportunity to implement a five-year national education. In world practice, there are few examples of the implementation of such a comprehensive program. New textbooks are an exclusive humanitarian library. It will be available to all people in three formats: in the form of ordinary paper books, in electronic online versions and in the format of a video library of open lectures from the best lecturers. Our young people living abroad will also have access to it at a time when the books will be published in Latin.

Among the books translated into the Kazakh language are the best intellectual products of the USA, Russia, France, Switzerland and Great Britain. Translation was carried out from the original language.

With a list of already translated books, as well as textbooks in the process of translation, you can find here: https://100kitap.kz/ru/books.

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On May 16 the Karaganda Industrial University hosted a single information hour on the topic “Twenty years of the establishment of public service bodies”.

Director of the department for educational work and youth policy KIU M. Salpenova and teacher of the department “HK and SGD” M. Soltan brought to the attention of the audience the basic information on the implementation of the Anti-Corruption Strategy of the Republic of Kazakhstan for 2015-2025, the National Plan “100 specific steps” and general of the country’s general policy aimed at preventing corruption.

The candidate of historical sciences, professor T. Baygabatov disclosed to students the main provisions of the legislation on combating corruption and public service, as well as the main stages of their formation and development.

Students expressed their opinions on the effectiveness of measures taken to combat corruption, noted the importance of measures taken to prevent corruption, voiced proposals to improve ongoing activities aimed at the prevention of corruption crimes in society.

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