November 28, 2016 at the hotel "Dostyk" Kazakhstan will host the Third Water Forum "Government-Education-Science-Industry", organized by the Kazakh-German University with the support of the OSCE Office in Astana and Konrad Adenauer Foundation in Kazakhstan. Forum will mark the official opening of the UNESCO Chair in Kazakhstan for water management based at the Kazakh-German University. The theme of the Forum will be "Water resources management based on knowledge, in Kazakhstan."
The Forum will join representatives of the ministries of Kazakhstan, the German parliament, local and international universities, representatives of the water sector of Kazakhstan industry, as well as international organizations. Participants will discuss issues of education in the water sector, as well as the possibility of closer cooperation between all sides of the water sector of Kazakhstan.
In October 2016 the first UNESCO
Chair on water resources management in Central Asia was established at the
German-Kazakh University in Almaty. This is a valuable opportunity to gain
larger political support and speak about these important issues.