Sorbonne – Kazakhstan Institute
Today, the Sorbonne-Kazakhstan Institute has a competent human resource potential, using which scientific activities and scientific and methodological assistance are carried out to students, master's students, and doctoral students of the Sorbonne-Kazakhstan Institute. The Sorbonne-Kazakhstan Institute employs 10 doctors of science, 36 candidates of science, and 4 PhD doctors. The faculty of the Institute carries out serious scientific and information work, the main results of which are the development of scientifically based recommendations on topical issues in the field of international law, international relations, and economics.
The faculty of the Sorbonne-Kazakhstan Institute is actively conducting research work, the results of which are published in publications included in the indexing system, such as Web of Science, Scopus, recommended by the Committee for Control in the Sphere of Education and Science of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan, as well as the Russian Science Citation Index and the Kazakh Science Citation Index.
The results of the scientific and scientific-methodical activities of the department's teachers are embodied in monographs, textbooks and teaching aids, methodological developments. Based on the results of scientific research by the faculty, more than 101 articles were published, including 28 in publications with an impact factor, 23 in foreign publications, 16 in neighboring countries, 15 in journals of the Committee for Control and Supervision of the Republic of Kazakhstan, 67 in publications of the Republic of Kazakhstan, and 15 in the materials of scientific conferences. In addition, 2 monographs and 14 teaching aids were published.
As a scientific and educational space, the ISC is also an institutional participant, closely cooperating with a network of national institutions (the Constitutional Council, the Supreme Court, the Nursultan Nazarbayev Foundation, the Anti-Corruption Agency of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Prosecutor General's Office, the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan), intergovernmental institutions (the United Nations, UNESCO, the University Agency of Francophonie (AUF), the World Bank...), enterprises (the Chamber of Commerce and Industry France-Kazakhstan) and diplomatic missions (the Embassy of France in Kazakhstan, the Consulate General of France in Almaty, the Consulate General of the Russian Federation in Almaty, the US Consulate General in Almaty...).
In this context, the ISC has organized several large-scale events (International Conference on Law in 2018, 2019 and 2020, 3 Franco-Kazakhstani forums on security, ISC development and sustainable development in 2018, 2019 and 2020, Night of Ideas in 2019...). A number of major international events in 2020 can also be noted:
- 08/28/2020 International scientific and practical conference dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the Constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstan "Constitutional values as a legal basis for consolidating society to overcome global challenges" (http://sorbonne.kaznpu.kz/ru/news/265/).
- 10/26/2020 International online forum of young scientists "Nazarbayev's Model - a strategic response to the challenges of the 21st century. (http://sorbonne.kaznpu.kz/ru/news/276/).
- 12/22/2020 International round table on the topic: "Current issues of modernization of the law enforcement and judicial systems in Kazakhstan" (http://sorbonne.kaznpu.kz/ru/news/285/).
- 12/29/2020 International round table dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the Constitutional Council of the Republic of Kazakhstan, on the topic: "The constitutional paradigm of Nursultan Nazarbayev as a response to global challenges" (http://sorbonne.kaznpu.kz/ru/news/286/).
Within this institutional network, the ISC will strive to strengthen its position as a place of continuous education together with French universities and remain a place of high-level exchange in its fields of expertise. In this regard, the ISC relies, and will continue to rely, on its growing network of university and institutional partners in France, as well as on its community of national and international experts.