Astana – The University of Palermo, represented by its Dean Fabrizio Micari, and the State University of Shyment, represented by Dean Myrkhalykov Zhumakhan, signed a draft cooperation agreement that opens the way to the development of a number of initiatives both in teaching and research with the exchange of teachers and students, the creation of double degree courses and the joint participation in research projects. The two deans met during a visit of a delegation of Deans, Presidents and Professors from various Kazakhstan universities within the Project “Practical tool for the development of Entrepeneurial Education” sponsored by CESIE Palermo. “It has been a fruitful meeting – commented the Dean for Internationalization Ada Maria Florena – during which the foundations were laid for a scientific and educational cooperation between our University and the several universities in Kazakhstan”. (9Colonne)