Nara City in Japan, an ancient capital of Japan (710-794 AD), became a sister city of Samarkand in November 2022. As one of the events to celebrate our sister city-relationship, an online tour of Samarkand was scheduled on 17 March (Japanese online participants - approximately 1000).

The Nara City Tourism and Economy Department requested the Silkroad International University of Tourism and Cultural Heritage (organized through Dr Soono) to show our campus to the people of Nara city at their city event. The Japanese Club agreed to make a video clip to introduce our campus in Japanese. The students created their own scenario in Japanese and videotaped it.

 The event was held at 18:00 (14:00 Uzbekistan time) on Friday, 17 March at Nara City Hall. The Japanese audience enjoyed our campus tour very much. The students also introduced themselves in Japanese to the audience at the Q & A session. It was a great opportunity to showcase our beautiful campus and the language skills of our students. Well done, President of Japanese Club Farzona, Presenters Jahongir, Asad, and Shakhrizoda who edited the video clip.

(Supervised by Dr Fumoto Soono and Dr Chiharu Tsurutani)

Promotion and advocacy activities regarding the referendum are continuing in the 4 sectors of Samarkand : “Ziyokorlar” “Ziyolilar” “Bogʻbonlar” “Adolat” “Tinchlik” and “Bunyodkorlar” neighborhoods.

On March 27th of this year, with the participation of the faculty of “Silk Road” International University of Tourism and Cultural Heritage  was organized a promotion and advocacy meeting on holding a referendum on the draft of the new version of the Constitution of the Republic of Uzbekistan on “The Constitution of the Republic of Uzbekistan” in the hall of activists of the the Railway Technical College in Samarkand.

The lectures by the university's First Vice-Rector J.Eltazarov and professor N. Khushvaktov on the new draft of the Constitution were listened.

Representatives of the local communities, public organizations, and young people took part in the event.

During the meeting, the implementation and development of cooperation in the field of education between the parties, the organization of teacher training courses, as well as the organization of the Korean Language Proficiency Examination (TOPIK) new system, the examination schedule, the officials were informed. It was agreed on issues such as introduction to the rules and regulations of the new system in the organization of the exam and ensuring that it is regularly held at a high level.

According to the decision of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated October 30, 2021 No. 5270 "On measures to further improve the continuous system of training qualified personnel in the fields of tourism, cultural heritage and museology", science, education and production in order to ensure the integration of "Silk Road" International University of Tourism and Cultural Heritage

Students of the 4th stage are doing production practice in the best enterprises in the field of tourism and cultural heritage.

Taking care of further employment of students in advance, the university has introduced the world-recognized system - practice + study, and gathered about 120 potential employer organizations in our republic as its partners in practice. and started a tradition of industry outreach programs.

Starting from March of this year, for students of the 4th stage  of  “Silk Road“  International University of Tourism and Cultural Heritage, based on the industry outreach program, the internship process will be conducted in the best enterprises in the field of tourism and cultural heritage, in conditions as similar as possible to the student's future professional activity. qualitatively organizes their production practice. Practice is a mandatory component of the educational process necessary for the training of qualified specialists, so it was organized outside the university walls - in institutions or organizations that correspond to the student's future specialty.

The problem of employment of graduates is very important for us, cooperation with employers on practice helps to solve this difficult problem.

On March 16, 2023, the first vice-rector J. Eltazarov and the vice-rector for educational affairs J. Hoffmann held an "open dialogue" between the students of the 4th stage of the university on the organization of internship. During the event, special attention is paid to the training of qualified personnel in our country today. It was mentioned that “Silk Road” International University of Tourism and Cultural Heritage  has established a student internship based on a mutual cooperation agreement concluded with about 150 organizations involved in the tourism sector.

            Starting from March 1 of this year, students graduating from the 4th year are sent to practice, in order for students to have the skills to apply their theoretical knowledge in practice, all types of practice in partner organizations, that is, familiarization practice, excursion practice, educational practice, qualification practice, production about the establishment of internships, requirements of internship, mechanisms of internship and all necessary information has been given.

            They noted that the need for practice for every student, especially in the field of tourism, a student can never become an expert by studying only theory, supporting students in every way, turning them into leading drivers in the implementation of reforms, creating all the conditions for them to have an active civic position, this is a huge task and obligation of the university.

            In addition, during the "open dialogue", the students have made several suggestions, and have been told that their suggestions will be taken into consideration. In short, the management of the university and the students of the university expressed their readiness to regularly hold such meetings in the format of "open dialogue".