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An active exchange of experience in the fields of education, science and health.
Close contacts and strategic partnership were established between the leading universities of Kazakhstan and Lithuania. About 200 Kazakhstan’s students take their education and internships at Lithuanian universities annually.
In November 2014, 4 Lithuanian universities (LSMU, KTU, VU and VDU) were included in the Bolashak international training program. In 2018, Lithuanian universities (VGTU, KTU, the University of Klaipeda, LCC and VDU) provided 200 full and partial grants for Kazakhstan citizens for undergraduate and graduate programs.
Lithuanian professors, including the former Minister of Education of Lithuania D. Pavalkis, hold the posts of rector and vice-rectors in the three largest medical universities of Kazakhstan (Nur-Sultan, Karaganda, Semey). Many specialists in perinatal medicine, cardio and neurosurgery of Kazakhstan were trained in Kaunas and Vilnius.
Lithuanian University of Health Sciences and Vilnius University are actively involved in the transfer of advanced medical standards to the Kazakh education system.
In the period from January 28 to January 31, 2019, a delegation of the Ministry of Health of Kazakhstan and the leadership of a number of medical universities visited Lithuania, headed by the Vice Minister of Health of the Republic of Kazakhstan O. Abishev.
Active developing in sports. So, since 2017, the European Federation “Kazaksha Kures” has been registered in Lithuania. Since 2019, Togyzkumalak competitions have been held in Lithuania, and in November of the same year, a manual on the game of Togyzkumalak in Lithuanian was published.
An important factor in the rapprochement of the two countries is historical memory. Lithuania warmly recalls the role that ordinary people of Kazakhstan did in saving Lithuanian families in the post-war years of mass deportation.
In September 2017, the Lithuanian Center of Culture and Business “Lithuanian Courtyard” opened in Karaganda, where there is a cafe of Lithuanian cuisine, an art gallery and a conference room.
In 2018 and 2019 The Lithuanian youth expedition "Mission Siberia" visited the Karaganda region, which carried out repair and cleaning work at the burial places of exiled Lithuanians.
On September 17, 2019, a memorial dedicated to the 65th anniversary of the Kengir uprising was opened in Zhezkazgan (Karaganda region).
