{"id":41623,"date":"2025-12-10T16:44:03","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T11:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mnu.kz\/?post_type=news&#038;p=41623"},"modified":"2025-12-10T17:13:01","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T12:13:01","slug":"mnu-student-wins-national-oq-startup-competition","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/mnu.kz\/en\/news\/mnu-student-wins-national-oq-startup-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"MNU Student Wins National OQ STARTUP Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong><em>Maqsut Narikbayev University student Nurlan Kuryshbekov has been named one of the winners of the national OQ STARTUP competition for the best projects among student repatriates (kandas). The final stage of the competition took place as part of the Forum of Scholars-Repatriates in Astana.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The competition, organised by the Otandastar Foundation under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan, brought together <strong>more than 50 kandas students<\/strong>&nbsp;studying at universities across the country. Participants presented diverse projects in the fields of science, culture, IT, business, media, volunteering, as well as creative and social initiatives. The winning projects were those of International School of Economics student at MNU, <strong>Nurlan Kuryshbekov<\/strong>, and <strong>Alma\u00adbek Beksultan<\/strong>, a master\u2019s student at Nazarbayev University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">It is worth noting that earlier, <a href=\"https:\/\/mnu.kz\/news\/mnu-student-wins-london-stock-exchange-group-competition\/\">MNU student Tomiris Kaniyeva also became a winner of a London Stock Exchange Group competition.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"682\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/mnu.kz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/photo_2025-12-06_12-59-04-682x1024.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-41621\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mnu.kz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/photo_2025-12-06_12-59-04-682x1024.webp 682w, https:\/\/mnu.kz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/photo_2025-12-06_12-59-04-200x300.webp 200w, https:\/\/mnu.kz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/photo_2025-12-06_12-59-04-768x1152.webp 768w, https:\/\/mnu.kz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/photo_2025-12-06_12-59-04.webp 853w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 682px) 100vw, 682px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>","protected":false},"featured_media":41629,"template":"","news-cat":[66],"news_tag":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>MNU Student Wins National OQ STARTUP Competition - 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\/mnu-student-wins-national-oq-startup-competition\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"MNU Student Wins National OQ STARTUP Competition - MNU\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Maqsut Narikbayev University student Nurlan Kuryshbekov has been named one of the winners of the national OQ STARTUP competition for the best projects among student repatriates (kandas). 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