Almaty conference on higher education, the arts and artificial intelligence draws experts from eight countries

27 October 2026

More than seventy policymakers, university heads, international experts and cultural professionals met in Almaty for the International Conference on Higher Education, Arts and Sustainable Development.
The conference carried the title Sustainable Central Asia: Silk Roads of Education, Arts, and AI, and sat at the Almaty Museum of Arts.
CIMEA ran it through its Central Asia Regional Office, with the UNESCO Regional Office in Almaty, the British Council and the museum.
Those taking part came from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, and from Italy, Singapore and Uruguay.
CIMEA Director General Professor Luca Lantero, Amir Piric of the UNESCO Regional Office in Almaty and Vladimir Opredelenov of the museum opened it.
The first day took up the internationalisation of universities, academic mobility and the recognition of qualifications.
The second day turned to climate change education, including the Turn It Around initiative on young people and climate, and to heritage, museums and media and information literacy.
Experts of the UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education were among the speakers.