On December 14, an online conference with East Kazakhstan technical university was held. At the beginning of the meeting Vice Rector for Academic Affairs Alexey Burmistrov greeted and thanked Kazakhstan colleagues for their participation. EKTU was represented by First Vice-rector of EKTU named after D. Serikbayev Saule Rakhmetullina, Vice-Rector for research and digitalization Natalia Denisova, Director of international educational programs center Tamara Segeda and their colleagues.

Our partners expressed their gratitude for organizing an online working meeting and invited KNRTU to participate in the conference on Materials Science and Engineering, which is to be held in February 2021. Vice Rector for Research Alexander Kopylov proposed various promising areas of scientific cooperation for consideration.

Possibility of cooperation in the field of medical engineering aroused great interest. One of the first joint projects is supposed to be carried out in the field of creation of medical devices for osteosynthesis made of titanium with the use of 3D printing technology and their implementation. Apart from that Head of Medical Engineering Department Ildar Musin touch on a topic of academic exchange. Mansur Galikhanov, Director of KNRTU Additional Professional Education Institute put forward an initiative of organizing continuing education courses in the field of engineering pedagogy including courses based on IGIP program.

As a result of the meeting, the parties arrived at a decision on coordinating a range of scientific projects for joint work in the framework of the Consortium of Russian and Kazakhstan Technical Universities. Along with that it was decided to appoint two persons to coordinate the project: Natalia Denisova on EKTU part and Head of International Affairs Anna Ebel on KNRTU part.