Between June 27 and July 1, a six-member delegation from Kazakhstan visited VSB-TUO, which will meet their colleagues at the Faculty of Mining and Geology, Faculty of Materials Science and Technology, Faculty of Economics and University International Office. Both universities have a great programmes similarity and there is potential to further develop partnerships not only in the field of education, but also in science and research. In the summer semester, there were also student exchanges from both universities, 3 students from KBTU studied at VSB-TUO and the first VSB-TUO student went on a semester stay at KBTU.
The trips of employees and Kazakh students were financed from the funds of the International Credit Mobility project (GA Nr. 2019-1-CZ01-KA107-060555), which is part of the Erasmus+ programme. The Erasmus+ programme is the largest EU programme to support education and enables exchanges between programme and partner countries. This is also the case of Czech-Kazakh cooperation, which was restarted after a forced pause caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.