To whom it may concern,

Thank you for showing your interest. As mentioned by Minister Sayasat Nurbek during our annual meeting in June 2025, QIST association has recently launched a new partnership collaboration with the Bolashak Program, specifically focused on their recently introduced initiative: short-term research fellowships in laboratories of leading global institutions. For detailed information about the fellowship program, please download brochure.

To enhance the quality of the fellowships, Bolashak now directly contacts the Principal Investigator (PI) or professor of the host laboratory that invites the Kazakhstani candidate. Of course, compensation or support will be provided to the host lab, the supervising professor, the invited fellow, or mentors from our association. However, for many selected candidates, it remains a significant challenge to find a laboratory or PI willing to host them.

This is where our porfessional association can make a real impact. As you can see in the attached image above, now our association includes 150+ members from 30+ countries, including 28 established scholars and PIs, 21 postdoctoral researchers, and 51 PhD candidates.  Many of our members — including the professors listed below — have already expressed interest in identifying and mentoring strong Kazakhstani candidates by welcoming them into their own laboratories or referring them to other suitable research groups and association already conducted six interviews, resulting in the selection of three outstanding candidates — one for University College London (UCL) and two for the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

If you are a PhD, postdoc, or PI and already have a promising Kazakhstani candidate you would like to host in your lab, this is a perfect opportunity to formalize that collaboration through the Bolashak Research Fellowship framework. The program allows you to welcome motivated researchers into your team, support their development, and potentially co-author high-quality publications together — all while contributing to the global integration of Kazakhstani science.

We would like to extend special thanks to:

Current Host Labs:

Prof. Rebecca Ingle & Postdoc Yerbolat Dauletyerov Department of Chemistry, Physical Chemistry (Molecular Spectroscopy), UCL

Prof. Li Yu-Feng & Prof. Didar Baimanov Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Potential Host Laboratories:
Prof. Dana Minbayeva (King’s College London)
Prof. Maral Muratbekova (ESCP Business School, Paris)
Prof. Aliya Kuzhabekova (University of Calgary, Canada)
Dr. Yerbolat Dauletyarov (Postdoc, UCL, London)
Dr. Dias Urozayev (Research Scientist, SINTEF, Norway)

We welcome your interest in this initiative. Please feel free to contact us if you wish to participate

or would like more information: info@kesa-europe.com