The event was organized for summing-up of progress of dual training system launching in Kazakhstan and discussions of further plans. The conference included eight thematic blocks:

1. Qualification requirements to experts at enterprises in the future
2. Current state and prospects of dual professional education in Kazakhstan
3. Attractiveness of dual training for training enterprises
4. Dual professional education system institutes
5. Digitalization. New prospects for Kazakhstan (for small and medium-sized enterprises, for startups) and also for the Kazakhstan-German cooperation
6. Qualification competences in a digital world of labor (transformation of a digital world of labor as a result of digitalization)
7. Prospects of the New Silk Way project for Kazakhstan. Development of logistics clusters in Astana and Almaty
8. Dual training on the example of professions of transport and logistics industries.

First Deputy Chairman of the Board of the Company Idrissov Marat delivered a presentation on "Prospects of Cluster Development and Role of Transport and Logistics Centers".

"A good example is the logistics cluster in Holland which promoted development of the Dutch flower cluster. 3 770 companies in Holland manufacture six billion flowers a year. Approximately 50% of all exported flowers are from Holland. Flowers are auctioned about 12 hours, and the next morning after purchase by brokers and large chains they can be found on shop counters of nearby European countries, and the day after – almost worldwide. Development of logistics clusters of Astana and Almaty is a real demand of the national economy," Makeyevich Marat emphasized.

Introduction of the cluster policy is implemented within the State program of industrial and innovative development of the Republic of Kazakhstan for 2015-2019 and the project between the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the World Bank "Increase in competitiveness of small and medium-sized enterprises in Kazakhstan". Within the project six pilot territorial clusters subject to further cluster analysis for implementation of a cluster initiative have been selected, besides, related measures of state support and necessary base for further implementation of cluster policy in the Republic of Kazakhstan have been developed.

Within implementation of this project by the Center of Cluster Development meetings with participants of the program have been already organized this year:

• On a meeting with milk processors of the Akmola region  
• KIDI held a meeting with wheat processors of the Kostanay region
• Work of a construction cluster was launched in the Karaganda region
• KIRI held a meeting with participants of a pharmaceutical cluster of the South Kazakhstan region
• KIRI participates in enhancing of tourist opportunities of the Almaty region
• A furniture cluster started operating in Almaty

The conference served as a dialogue platform on exchange of experience in the sphere of dual training with assistance of experts from the German Society for International Cooperation, state organizations, and representatives of the Kazakhstani economy.