On October 08, 2015 the International Scientific and Practical Conference titled “The VII Toraighyrov Readings. The quality of life in Pavlodar region. The current state and perspectives” dedicated to the 55th anniversary of S. Toraighyrov Pavlodar State University was held at the University.

“It is gratifying to note that the Toraighyrov Readings have considerably expanded both geographic and scientific boundaries, not having been wholly absorbed by the humanities. Today’s conference, without any doubts, is a nice platform for scholars of engineering, agrarian, social and economic sciences,” said the rector of S. Toraighyrov Pavlodar State University, Doctor of Political Sciences, Aryn Orsariyev, “the fact that so many talented scholars, researchers and inventors have been gathered under the auspices of the Toraighyrov Readings will undoubtedly help us to exchange experiences, to pick uncommon ideas, to find innovative solutions to problems of one or another kind in various spheres of science.”

One of honorary guests of the event was Joseph Tam, Professor of Duke University Sanford School of Public Policy (the USA), who told about planned cooperation between universities in the sphere of a dual-diploma system.

One of the issues that Abraham Altonayan, Doctor of Philosophy, Professor of Brunel University (UK) addressed in his speech was the partner relationship under the Newton-Al-Farabi Partnership Program. The project is aimed at examination of environmental conditions and their influence on a person’s health. According to the Dean of the Faculty of Chemical Technology and Natural Sciences, Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor Kanat Akhmetov, all data for studies are collected from legitimate resources, which are available in an open access form. As the part of studies the scientific group performs an analysis of environmental conditions and correlates it with the frequency of one or another disease in human populations. Finally, scientists draw certain conclusions and develop methods of a person’s physical health recovery by way of improving ecological situation and environmental conditions.

The official part of the event included keynote speeches from Lorant David, the professor of Eszterhazy Karoly University of Applied Sciences (Eger, Hungary), Professor Murat Bekmagambetov, the president of the Scientific Research Institute of Transport and Communications, Doctor of Engineering Sciences.

Addressing to the participants of the conference, the honored scientist of the Russian Federation, Doctor of Engineering Sciences, the professor of Moscow Power Engineering Institute Aleksandr Kuvaldin noted that “the Institute has been closely cooperating with S. Toraighyrov Pavlodar State University for almost 40 years”. “Your University has always sent its best specialists for education to the postgraduate school of Moscow Power Engineering Institute, and today I managed to meet some of them as honored scientists of the University”, said Aleksandr Borissovich.