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but also in developing modern technology and
providing professional training for new, better-educated
and more highly-skilled personnel.
In past years, all of this took place within
individual, albeit large, oil industry projects.
Since its inception in 2005, however, the KA-
ZENERGY Association has been striving to assist
the state in this matter at a national level.
In September 2006, we began conducting
KAZENERGY’s Educational program, a unique
example of an association of companies – representing
all subsoil users, regardless of their
nationality – that works with talented young
people. By implementing the Program, private
businesses help to develop our country
by supporting social and educational projects,
and training highly qualified personnel.
Since 2007, the Association has provided
grants and scholarships to students of universities,
professional schools, and colleges. In
November of the same year, KAZENERGY and
the Ministry of Education and Science signed
a Memorandum agreeing to cooperate in
training personnel for the industry. In February
2008, a similar Memorandum was signed
with CIP JSC as part of the student scholarship
program ‘Bolashak’. We were also involved in
producing the State program for the development
of technical and professional education
in the Republic of Korea for 2008-2012.
Last September, the KAZENERGY Association
signed a trilateral Agreement on scientifictechnical
cooperation with the Ministry of Education
and Science and the Ministry of Labour
and Social Protection.
“vErTiCal pErSONNEl”
– What is the most significant aspect of
your participation in the state’s personnel
policy?
designed by the Association for Kazakhstan’s
youth.
You can appreciate the scope: KAZENERGY
has more than 40 member-companies, and
our partners in education include 25 colleges
and professional schools, and 20 universities.
Educational institutions selected as partners of
the Association’s Education program will be
announced in October 2010, prior to the 5th
Eurasian Energy Forum.
KAZENERGY Association’s website, www.
KAZENERGY.com, has an ‘Educational program’
section where one can find conditions of
participation and requirements for grants and
scholarship applicants, as well as information
grants for students, the KAZENERGY Association
implements various youth projects. These
include establishing the Association’s Youth
Committee, and staging both an international
youth conference and an annual gathering of
KAZENERGY fellows and scholarship-holders.
We encourage these fellows and scholars
to attend republican debate tournaments and
the annual KAZENERGY Eurasian Forum. This
work has received international recognition:
our fellow Rahimzhan Hismetov, for example,
became a member of the Youth Committee
of the World Petroleum Council (WPC) and a
participant of the second World Youth Forum,
“Energize Your Future”, organized by WPC.
NEar ThE 110 th aNNivErSary Of ThE KazaKhSTaNi Oil rESErvES, WE
aWarDED – iN CONJuNCTiON WiTh KazmuNaygaS JSC – SiX SChOlar-
ShipS, NamED afTEr Safi uTEbaEv, TO uNivERsitY studENts, ANd thREE
GRANts to tEAchERs iN collEGEs ANd pRofEssioNAl schools.
– People. The core of our participation is
preparing professionals to work in an innovative
economy that is constantly evolving and
improving its technology. We are not a training
organization, but we managed to involve
oil-gas and energy players in implementing a
State program on professional education, and
we were also able to combine educational
institutions and oil companies in the projects
on universities, professional schools and colleges
that train specialists for the oil-gas and
energy sector. The website also features a database
of our fellows and scholarship holders.
We publish and distribute leaflets with information
on our offers for students, and conduct
outreach briefings in industrial educational
institutions.
In addition to providing scholarships and
All these activities are aimed at supporting talented
young people in their quest to study and
pursue science. For instance, receiving scholarships
and grants reduces students’ domestic
and financial concerns, and gives them more
time to study. We also take care of orphans,
so that their difficult social situation does not
prevent them from succeeding.
While training professionals for their projects,