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Scientific internship for master`s students

Scientific internship of the master`s student is carried out for the purpose of acquaintance with innovative technologies and new types of productions in scientific organizations and (or) organizations of corresponding branches or spheres of activity.

Scientific internship can be carried out in the leading scientific organizations and higher education institutions, included in the international ratings, including in the relevant direction (by Subject). In this case, the host party must have a contractual basis with the sending party;
- place of scientific internship must correspond to the scientific direction of the educational program and research topics.

Duration of scientific training of Master students is 14 calendar days (including travel), not more than once during the whole period of training. The direction of the master`s student for scientific internship is formalized by the order of the Rector of the University. 

The criteria for selecting students for a scientific internship abroad are valid:
- Preliminary results of research and (or) publications on the topic of research;
- Presence of the language certificate (at passage of training in a foreign language):
- English: Test of English as a Foreign Language Institutional Testing Program (TOEFL ITP), threshold score - at least 163 points;
- Test of English as a Foreign Language Institutional Testing Program Internet-based Test (TOEFL IBT), threshold score - at least 60;
- Test of English as a Foreign Language Paper-based testing (TOEFL PBT), threshold score - at least 498;
- Test of English as a Foreign Language Paper-delivered testing (TOEFL PDT), threshold score - not less than 6.5;
- International English Language Test System (IELTS) threshold score - not less than 6.0;
- and/or German: Deutsche Sprachpruefung fuer den Hochschulzugang (DSH, Niveau C1/level C1), TestDaF-Prufung (Niveau C1/level C1);
- and/or French: Test de Français International^TM - (TFI ) - at least level B1 in the reading and listening sections), Diplome d`Etudes en Langue française - (DELF), level B2), Diplome Approfondi de Langue française - (DALF), level C1), Test de connaissance du français - (TCF) - at least 50 points).

Scientific internship for doctoral students

In accordance with the Order of the Minister of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated July 20, 2022 № 2 "On approval of state compulsory standards of higher and postgraduate education" as part of the research work of a doctoral student (Experimental research work of a doctoral student) individual plan of doctoral student for exposure to innovative technologies and new types of industries provides for compulsory scientific internship in scientific organizations and (or) organizations of the relevant.

Scientific internship may be carried out:
- in the leading foreign research organizations and educational organizations implementing educational programs of higher and (or) postgraduate education, occupying the first 1000 positions in the international rankings or the first 200 positions in the relevant direction (by Subject). In this case, the host party must have a contractual basis with the sending party;
- the place of the internship must correspond to the scientific direction of the educational program, the subject of the doctoral dissertation and the place of work of the foreign consultant.

Duration of the scientific internship of the doctoral student is at least 30 calendar days, no more than two times during the whole period of study.

Doctoral students are obliged to pass the foreign scientific training at the place of work of the foreign advisor.

The criteria for the selection of trainees for a research internship abroad are:
- Prior research findings and/or publications on the topic of study;
- Presence of the language certificate (at passage of training in a foreign language):
- English: Test of English as a Foreign Language Institutional Testing Program (TOEFL ITP), threshold score - at least 163 points;
- Test of English as a Foreign Language Institutional Testing Program Internet-based Test (TOEFL IBT), threshold score - at least 60,
- Test of English as a Foreign Language Paper-based testing (TOEFL PBT), threshold score - at least 498,
- Test of English as a Foreign Language Paper-delivered testing (TOEFL PDT), threshold score - not less than 65;
- International English Language Test System (IELTS) threshold score - not less than 6.0;
- and/or German: Deutsche Sprachpruefung fuer den hochschulzugang (DSH, Niveau C1/level C1), TestDaF-Prufung (Niveau C1/level C1);
- and/or French: Test de Français International^TM - (TFI) - at least level B1 in the reading and listening sections), Diplome d`Etudes en Langue française - (DELF), level B2), Diplome Approfondi de Langue française - (DALF), level C1), Test de connaissance du français - (TCF) - at least 50 points).

For more information, please contact the Division of academic mobility of the Department of International Cooperation at Dostyk 13, office 300.