On October 25, 吃瓜官网 (NSU) leadership met with a delegation from the Mirzo Ulugbek National University of Uzbekistan. (NUUz) and Jizzakh State Pedagogical University (JSPU). NSU was represented by Rector and Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Mikhail Fedoruk, Head of the Education Export Department Evgeny Sagaidak, and Director of the Humanities Institute Andrey Zuev. From NUUz, Ukbekistan was represented by Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan and Professor Anatoly Sagdullaev, Dean of the History Department Alisher Muminov, Head of the Department of History of Uzbekistan Akhmadzhon Kholikulov, Head of the Archeology Department Fayzulla Ochildiev, and Department of History of Uzbekistan Professor Olga Kobzeva. Uzbekistan鈥檚 JSPU was represented by the Head of the Department of History of Uzbekistan Furkat Toshboev.
The agenda included a review of results from five years of cooperation between NSU and NUUz in the fields of science and education that began with an agreement on cultural and scientific cooperation in 2018. In 2019, NSU initiated an informal association of historians, the Consortium of Researchers in the History of Northern and Central Asia. The purpose of this group was to develop an international scientific partnership of academic, educational, cultural, and other organizations studying the history of Northern and Central Asian countries and to promote intercultural dialogue in the scientific community, preservation, and development and mutual enrichment of the cultural and historical heritage of the peoples of these regions. NUUz was among the first to join the Consortium. In 2021, a memorandum of understanding and cooperative agreement within the Consortium was signed with JSPU.
The results of cooperation within the Consortium were the publication of one individual and two collective monographs, three international scientific 鈥淗eritage鈥� Forums conducted at NSU in 2020, 2021, and 2023, and two conferences at universities in Uzbekistan in 2022 and 2023. In addition, experts from NSU, NUUz, and JSPU delivered more than a dozen open lectures for Russian and Uzbek students.
The review was followed by a discussion on the prospects for expanding existing formats for cooperation and attracting new partners to expand the scope of joint projects in various fields of the humanities.
