{"id":39682,"date":"2024-02-27T13:22:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T08:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mnu.kz\/?post_type=news&#038;p=39682"},"modified":"2025-11-05T13:26:45","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T08:26:45","slug":"international-conference-impact-central-bridging-social-development-and-entrepreneurship-in-central-asia","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/mnu.kz\/en\/news\/international-conference-impact-central-bridging-social-development-and-entrepreneurship-in-central-asia\/","title":{"rendered":"International Conference \u201cImpact Central: Bridging Social Development and Entrepreneurship in Central Asia\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">On February 22\u201323, 2024, Nazarbayev University hosted the international conference \u201cImpact Central: Bridging Social Development and Entrepreneurship in Central Asia.\u201d<br><br>The conference brought together partner universities from across Central Asia, including the American University of Central Asia (AUCA), SDU, KIMEP, and Maqsut Narikbayev University (MNU).<br><br>More than 30 ISE MNU students took part in the event, presenting their research projects in the fields of sustainable development and corporate social responsibility. The project supervisor was Dr. Anjan Ghosh, Professor at Nazarbayev University and Visiting Professor at MNU, who teaches the undergraduate course \u201cIntroduction to Sustainable Development\u201d as part of the universities\u2019 partnership.<br><br>According to the jury, the best student projects were:<br>\u2022 Empowering Tomorrow&#8217;s Leaders: Teach for Qazaqstan\u2019s Social Impact Journey by Gulkanat Mukhitova<br>\u2022 Empowering Communities: BI Group&#8217;s Contribution through IQanat High School of Burabay by Temirbulatova Dilnaza, Zhansultanova Alsu, Yekhsan Ayagoz, Shamratkyzy Assel<br>\u2022 Air Astana&#8217;s Sustainable Development Approach by Assel Amangeldi, Marpiya Kabdrashitova, Naziya Kospanova<br><br>We warmly congratulate our students on their successful participation and express our gratitude to Professor Anjan Ghosh and his colleagues from the NURCE Center for creating opportunities and a platform for fruitful collaboration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":39679,"template":"","news-cat":[442,502,481],"news_tag":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>International Conference \u201cImpact Central: Bridging Social Development and Entrepreneurship in Central Asia\u201d - MNU<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/mnu.kz\/en\/news\/international-conference-impact-central-bridging-social-development-and-entrepreneurship-in-central-asia\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"International Conference \u201cImpact Central: Bridging Social Development and Entrepreneurship in Central Asia\u201d - MNU\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"On February 22\u201323, 2024, Nazarbayev University hosted the international conference \u201cImpact Central: Bridging Social Development and Entrepreneurship in Central Asia.\u201d The conference brought together partner universities from across Central Asia, including the American University of Central Asia (AUCA), SDU, KIMEP, and Maqsut Narikbayev University (MNU). 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