On Oct 10, CASIB's head of bureau Peter Liebelt visited the Kyrgyz-Turkish Manas University (KTMU) in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, on Oct 10 in order to conduct an evaluation for DAAD. KTMU is among the country's leading universities. It was founded in 1995 following an agreement between Turkey and the Kyrgyz Republic; teaching activities began in 1997. Since then, KTMU has become a renowned international full-scale university with 9 faculties and 46 chairs, whose scope extends far beyond the national boundaries. This becomes clear through the high number of international students, who accounted for 15 % of the total student body in the academic year 2017/18, as well as the high number of graduates who now work abroad.
The university's prominent standing within the Kyrgyz academic landscape is clearly reflected in the evaluated Faculty of Agriculture, which is highly competent and, therefore, especially important for the agrarian country Kyrgyzstan. Internationally recognised, capable education and research institutions like KTMU play a fundamental role in tackling the current and future problems as well as in developing strategies for a sustainable agriculture.
KTMU's very good laboratory facilities allows for research that meets interational quality standards. In 2018/19, the university was part of the CLIENT II definition project „ProVeCA – Protected Cultivation of Vegetables for Central Asia”, a six-month feasability study that investigated the establishment of a greenhouse park combined with a technology and training park for all-year vegetable production at 1600 m.a.s.l. on the shore of lake Issyk-Kul, northern Kyrgyzstan.
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