On the meeting of the Ambassador of Kazakhstan with the Rector of the Mykolas Romeris University

On December 20, 2023, the Ambassador of Kazakhstan in Lithuania, Timur Urazayev, visited the Mykolas Romeris University.

At the meeting with the Rector of the MRU, Prof. Dr. Inga Žalėnienė, the discussions covered the prospects of developing the university’s cooperation with partners in Kazakhstan, and expanding the partnerships between the two countries in various research areas. The participants mutually expressed interest in cooperation between the Lithuanian and Kazakhstani researchers and practitioners in the field of cybersecurity and artificial intelligence, exchange of experience and knowledge between the universities of the two countries.

As of today, 17 Kazakhstani citizens are studying at the Mykolas Romeris University on Bachelor’s and Master’s degree programmes, 14 students from Kazakhstani partners have arrived for academic mobility (3 of them receive Lithuanian state scholarships for short-term studies). Last academic year, several groups of postgraduate students of the Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan attended intensive study and research practice courses at the Faculty of Public Governance and Business.

MRU cooperates with partners in Kazakhstan to provide double degree programmes. Specifically, in 2020, an agreement was signed with the “Narkhoz University” in Almaty to cooperate in implementing the Master’s programmes in “European and International Business Law”, and in 2022, an agreement was signed to cooperate in implementing the Bachelor’s programme in “Law and Global Security”. In 2022, an undergraduate double diploma agreement was also concluded with Sh. Ualikhanov University on the “Translation and Editing programme”.

The MRU’s cooperation with Kazakhstan intensified with the signing of an agreement in 2007 with the first MRU partner in our country - the Abai Kazakh National Pedagogical University. To date, the MRU has 16 partners from Kazakhstan. Under bilateral agreements, there are exchanges of students and teachers, cooperation in research activities and projects, training programmes, professional development courses for teaching staff, external quality assessment and accreditation of educational programmes.

Mykolas Romeris University is one of the leading Lithuanian universities in the field of law and humanities educating in total 7.5 thousand students.