Prospects for cooperation in the educational sphere were discussed

On February 2, 2022, Ambassador Timur Primbetov met with the Vice President and Rector of the Riga Aeronautical Institute (RAI) Mikhail Karol and Anatoly Melnis at the Embassy of Kazakhstan in Latvia.

During the conversation, issues of further cooperation with the Riga Institute of Air Navigation on the training of graduates in such specialties as: air transport systems management (pilots), technical operation of aircraft, air traffic control (air traffic controllers) were discussed.

Currently, 27 students from Kazakhstan are studying at RAI in undergraduate and graduate programs.

For 15 years, RAI has been successfully cooperating with RSC "Kazaeronavigatsia" in the retraining of air traffic controllers.

During the meeting, an agreement was reached that RAI will submit proposals for expanding and deepening cooperation in training specialists for the aviation industry in Kazakhstan.

At the end of the conversation, the Ambassador of Kazakhstan thanked the leaders of the university for their interest and intentions to develop mutually beneficial ties between the two countries in the field of higher engineering and technical education.