On September 17 the Rector of KNU Dogdurbek Chontoev met with the organizers of the II International Conference «Expanding the Opportunities: Education for Health and Welfare in the Personal Development Educational Environment».
At the beginning of the meeting, the Director of the Institute for Staff Retraining and Advanced Studies, a Partner for the implementation of the project, Alaibek Shamshiev, introduced the Executive Director of the Charity Fund «Contribution to the Future» Polozhevets Peter Grigoryevich, the Head of the Academic Partnership Program «Developing Environment» Khaustova Ekaterina Aleksandrovna, Head of the «Analytics and Interactions with universities» program of the «Developing Environment» program Matvienko Evgeniy Viktorovich, and the Educational Advisor of the UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in the Education Edoyan Tigran Albertovich.
Mr. Shamshiev also informed that KNU has been cooperating with the «Contribution to the Future» Charitable Foundation and the UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education since September last year. He further said, «A large project to develop personal potential in education is currently being implemented. As part of this project, KNU works with 8 schools of the Kyrgyz Republic. During this period, 23 trainers of the national level were trained and 63 heads of secondary schools, deputy directors and social teachers were trained. Since October, school teachers will have been trained within the project, and a competition for the selection of schools has already been announced for this project. During this period, an extensive experience in teaching school managers has been gained. Now KNU has become the base center for the implementation of this large project. As for UNESCO, Kyrgyzstan has been working with it for more than 10 years. Since last year, the National University has become the basis for the implementation of a healthy lifestyle. Last year, our university became a partner and chief organizer of the republican contest «Healthy Life» and trained more than six thousands of our teachers.
Alaibek Shamshiev also spoke about the program of the conference today. According to him, in the framework of this event, the resource center of UNESCO and the «Contribution to the Future» Fund will be opened to implement the program for the development of personal potential and a healthy lifestyle.
The Rector of KNU Dogdurbek Chontoev warmly greeted the organizers of the II International Conference «Expanding the Opportunities: Education for Health and Wellfare in the Personal Developing Educational Environment» and noted that the leadership of the National University will support this project in every possible way and wished good luck in its implementation. According to him, Kyrgyzstan is the only country of the post-Soviet space that has officially retained the Russian language. «Therefore, it will be much easier for you to implement the project and expand the possibilities of education here in our country than in other countries,» concluded Dogdurbek Chontoev.
«We are very pleased that Kyrgyz National University has become the first international partner of the project,» Peter Polozhevets began his speach. — We have the same values, we look equally into the future. The most important thing is children. So that they live well in the future so that they are happy, successful, so that they can realize their potential,» he continued. — Our programs in Russia exist 6 years, they are implemented in almost half of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, all schools are involved. The program develops very quickly. This is thanks to the Alaibek Burkanovich team, because they devote a lot of time to this program. It’s very cool. At the next stage of the project, we will already investigate what is happening in Kyrgyzstan, we will collect data together, then we will do a comparative analysis for both Ryssia and Kyrgyzstan. Thanks to Alabek Burkanovich, we had contacts in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, on the agenda in Tajikistan, there may be contacts with China. In addition to this program, the Charity Fund has other programs. Our products meet all the needs of the children aged 5 to 18, teachers, managers and parents.
An Advisor to the UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in the Education Tigran Edoyan and the Head of the Academic Partnership Program «Developing Environment» Ekaterina Khaustova also told about the implementation of the project.
The meeting was attended by: Vice-Rector for Educational Work of Jenish Beksultanov and the Head of the Educational Department Almazbek Kydyraliev.
