The event was attended by representatives of the Ministry of Higher Education and Science in the Republic of Kazakhstan, The Committe for Control in the sphere of education and science of the MES RK, staff from different universities and representatives of international organizations of Kazakhstan, Finland, Lithuania, making up together more than 120 people in total.
The opening speech was delivered by the President of the IQAA, Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, professor Kalanova Sh. She welcomed all participants and emphasized the relevance of the topic.
During the conference, all speakers and participants had a great opprotunity to discuss the issues such as: amendments in Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in the European Higher Education Area (ESG), in the ECTS Users' Guide. In addition, there was a discussion of issues related to the procedure of external quality assurance by IQAA in the framework of new edition of ESG.
During the conference, the reports were delivered by the following speakers:
1.The Vice-President of the European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ENQA) Helka Kekäläinen, with the presentation on the topic: "Aims and stress marks of the new edition of the Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in the European Higher Education Area (ESG), approved at the conference of Ministers of education in Yerevan (May 14, 2015)"
2.The Head of International Programmes and Relations Office of Vilnius University Raimonda Markevičienė, with the presentation on the topic: "ECTS as one of the cornerstones of Bologna process"
3.President of the IQAA, Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, Professor Kalanova Sh. with the report on the topic: "Standards of external quality assurance in the framework of the new ESG edition"
4.The head of the management and methodology of the higher education in the Department of higher and further education and international cooperation of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan Banu M. Narbekova with the report on the topic: "Novelties in the implementation of ECTS in higher education institutions"
The program of the conference was divided into two parallel sessions:
SESSION №1
"Problems and ways of implementation of the Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in the European Higher Education Area (ESG)"
The moderators of the session №1 were:
President of the IQAA, Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, Professor Kalanova Sh. and the Vice-President of the European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ENQA) Helka Kekäläinen.
SESSION №2
"Discussion of usage of the ECTS Users’ Guide in the European Higher Education Area"
The moderators of the session №2 were:
The head of the management and methodology of the higher education in the Department of higher and further education and international cooperation of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan Banu M. Narbekova and the international expert, Head of International Programmes and Relations Office of Vilnius University Raimonda Markevičienė.
In the end of this international conference, all participants were granted with the official certificates on the participation in the conference.
The materials for this conference are presented below:
The program of the conference
The presentation of Helka Kekäläinen on the topic: "Aims and stress marks of the new edition of the Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in the European Higher Education Area (ESG), approved at the conference of Ministers of education in Yerevan (May 14, 2015)"
The presentation of Raimonda Markevičienė on the topic: "ECTS as one of the cornerstones of Bologna process"
The presentation of Raimonda Markevičienė on the topic: "ECTS: problems in the development of study programs focused on the learning outcomes"
Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan 
Ministry of Education and Science of the Kyrgyz Republic 
