Natural sciences and engineering
Metallurgy, petrochemistry, phytochemistry, water treatment and building materials — 13 laboratories.
Institutes and laboratories
Research is carried out in institutes and laboratories equipped for work in engineering, chemistry, biotechnology, agricultural science and the social sciences and humanities.
Biotechnology and agro-innovation
Agricultural, food and industrial biotechnology, work with plant material.
Social sciences and humanities
Research centres for Abai studies, Turkology and Mukhtar studies, history, ethnology and archaeology.
Shared-use centres
Equipment for joint research by university units and external clients.
Research projects and grants
Research is carried out through grant funding, targeted programmes and commercial contracts with enterprises.
- Grant-funded projects in priority areas of science
- Targeted programme funding for research and science and technology programmes
- Commercial contracts with enterprises in the region
- Joint international projects, including Erasmus+
- Internal university grants for investigator-led research
Publications and academic journals
Publication support
Seminars and support for authors preparing articles for first- and second-quartile journals.
University publications
Publishing research results in peer-reviewed academic journals.
Research capacity
Academic staff with research degrees: 116 doctors of science, 548 candidates, 90 PhD.
Commercialisation and entrepreneurship
The task of the Department of Entrepreneurship and Commercialisation is to take a development from laboratory prototype to product and bring it to market.
- Identifying the development. Selecting promising results of research by the university's units.
- Evaluation and protection. Assessing commercial potential and registering rights to intellectual property.
- Prototype. Refining the technology together with the design and engineering bureau.
- Business incubator. Preparing the project, team and business model, and advice on development.
- Partnership. Finding investors and industrial partners and launching production.
Design and engineering bureau
Manufacture and testing of prototypes and engineering support for projects.
Business incubator
A platform for student and research start-ups, advice and mentoring.
For young researchers
Students, master's students and doctoral students take part in research in departments and laboratories, present at conferences and publish together with their supervisors.
- Research societies and student design bureaux in departments
- Participation in the university's grant-funded and commercial projects
- National and international research conferences
- Competitions for research papers and start-up initiatives
- A master's → PhD pathway with research supervision
Research unit contacts
Please send questions about cooperation, joint research and requests for work to the university's research units.
- Address
- 160012, Republic of Kazakhstan, Shymkent, Tauke Khan Avenue 5
- Chancellery
- 8 (725-2) 21-01-41 · canselyarya@mail.ru
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