International Summer School 2024 at the Razzakov KSTU

The International Summer School ‘HydroKG’ was held at Razzakov KSTU from 28 July to 11 August 2024 with the support of DAAD Go East Programme/ Germany.

It brought together 9 students from European countries, including students from the Universities of Kyrgyzstan KSTU and KRSU, and therefore all events were held in three languages: German, English and Russian.

The programme was rich and varied. The participants visited large hydropower plants of Kyrgyzstan of the Naryn cascade in the southern region, such as Toktogul, Kurpsai, Kambar Ata-2, and in the northern region, they visited the small hydropower plants ‘Chakan Hydroelectric Power Station’ and the Ortotokoy reservoir in Issyk Köl. At the visiting sites, demonstration lectures were organised by employees of organisations, in which the students were able to acquire advanced knowledge in the fields of electrical engineering, energy, mechanics, hydraulic engineering, hydromorphology, hydropower plant management, ecology and geography.

The participants actively worked on projects in which they solved real problems in order to acquire new knowledge and apply it in practice. Theoretical lectures and workshops about the implementation of the Hydro4U project, its goals and objectives, about the work done and plans were conducted by lecturers of the Department ‘Hydropower Structures’, ‘Renewable Energy Sources’ of the KSTU as well as by partners of the Technical University of Munich, Germany in more detail.

The programmes of the International Summer School ‘HydroKG’ enabled the participants to explore new paths, acquire new knowledge and skills and also to work in an international team on exciting projects in Bishkek, Toktogul, Karakul, Balykchy and Cholpon Ata.

At the end of the International Summer School ‘HydroKG’, the administration of KSTU awarded certificates with international ECTS credits to all participants.

Author and picture credits: Venera Baichekirova, Head of the HydroKG summer school in Kyrgyzstan