Academic mobility, as one of the main tools for achieving quality education, develops the main goal of “Increasing the efficiency and competitiveness of the Kazakhstan education system”. Modern integration processes occurring in the world community also affect the system of higher education in the Republic of Kazakhstan.

Currently, a single global educational space is being formed, which is expressed, first of all, in the harmonization of educational approaches, standards, and curricula in universities in different countries of the world. Understanding the benefits that the development of mobility brings for the growth of competitiveness of universities and countries, the formation of a single labor market, the government of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Republic of Uzbekistan considers academic mobility as the main task and instrument of the Bologna process.

Within the framework of the memorandum of cooperation concluded between the Asfendiyarov Kazakh National Medical University and the Tashkent Pharmaceutical Institute, cooperation is being carried out to implement the Academic Mobility Program.

In order to implement the Academic Mobility Program for the period from April 3 to April 5, 2025, the Kazakh National Medical University, Department of Pharmaceutical and Toxicological Chemistry of the School of Pharmacy was visited by: Nurmatova Malokhat Ismatovna, Associate Professor of the Department of Toxicological Chemistry, PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences and 5th year students majoring in Pharmacy. The teaching staff of the Tashkent Pharmaceutical Institute presented a program of seminars on the academic discipline “Toxicological Chemistry” on the following topics:

– “Forensic chemical studies of hallucinogens”;

– “Forensic chemical studies of testosterone preparations”;

– “On the hypoglycemic effect of some medicinal plants”;

– “Pyridine and piperidine alkaloids, toxicological significance, methods of analysis. Nicotine, anabasine, pachycarpine”;

– “Pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics of toxic substances”;

– “Alkaloids: atropine, scopolamine, quinine, papaverine. Toxicological significance and methods of analysis.”

In their professional activities, higher education teachers perform three main functions: 1) production of knowledge (development of new academic disciplines, scientific research); 2) transfer of knowledge (the educational process in all the diversity of its forms, methods, means and technologies); 3) dissemination of knowledge (publication of educational, scientific and popular science literature, educational events, etc.). The areas of his professional activity include: educational (pedagogical), methodological, scientific research, organizational and managerial and social activities. Based on this, a generalized “portrait of a teacher’s competencies” is formed, which he needs in the performance of his professional duties.

In terms of the implemented Program, academic mobility can be considered as a means of developing and updating the educational process and educational programs of higher professional education in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. Its capabilities in terms of developing professional competencies of the teaching staff of the Asfendiyarov Kazakh National Medical University and the Tashkent Pharmaceutical Institute are expanding.