Development of innovative curricula and modules in Circular Economy and Sustainable Development

D.Serikbayev EKTU is a leading technical university that has been successfully raising highly qualified engineering personnel since 1958.

The University holds leading positions in international and national rankings, bachelor's and master's degree programs are internationally accredited, including with the assignment of the EuroAce mark. The university is a member of international associations, more than 6,000 students study at the university, classes are taught by about 600 highly qualified teachers, including foreign scientists from partner universities.

East Kazakhstan is an industrial center of innovative economy in the field of non-ferrous metallurgy, nuclear industry, power engineering and agro-industrial complex, and D.Serikbayev EKTU plays an important role in the development of the region.

The main academic goal of our university is to form a practice-oriented platform for organizing academic activities for high-tech production.

To achieve this goal, in the period from October 11 to 13, 2022, the delegation of the EKTU took part in the CDIO Asian Regional Meeting at the Singapore Polytechnic, Singapore. Within the framework of the meeting, the university successfully passed the regional stage of joining the representatives of the CDIO Global Initiative to Reform and develop a unified quality of engineering education in the global world.

EKTU develops information and educational infrastructures (LMS, educational services export platform) integrated with external global resources. Which corresponds to the relevance and sufficiency of experience to participate in such an important project.

For more than 40 years, the Faculty of "School of Business and Entrepreneurship" of EKTU has been training specialists in economics, management, finance, accounting and auditing, and taxation. Graduates of the faculty, and now the school, occupy leadership positions in large industrial enterprises of the region and Kazakhstan. Faculty members regularly undergo advanced training and internships in their subject area, adopting best practices. Faculty scientists participate in grant funding projects from the Ministry of Science and other funded programs.

Specialists in the field of economics are supplemented by employees of the educational program "Life safety and environmental protection". They have been involved in environmental issues for many years, including research, recycling, recycling and waste disposal projects. The work of the educational program is based on the material base of the Competence Center in the field of ecology and life safety. The Center has a laboratory "Environmental Health improvement". The teaching staff of the educational program also conducts advanced training courses for employees of enterprises of the mining and metallurgical industry of East Kazakhstan region.

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