The Al Farabi Kazakh National University is hosting the QS Worldwide Conference "Harmony of Human Heritage and Advanced Technology". Expected are experts from universities, businesses and media from Europe, CEE-Multi-Country Region, South and East Asia, the USA, UNESCO and UNIFEM. The Conference will be supported also by G-Global and by the European Retail Academy (ERA).

Starting the platform Almaty Eurasian University Complex (AEUC) in January 2017 Prof.Dr.Hallier defined as its mission to bundle Retail/Marketing Theory with Applied Sciences in a Regional Revitalisation Context. The cities along the Silk Road are cultural hubs, which can contribute in the Eurasian Dialogue not only between Europe and Asia but even on a global level.
 

At the XII.Astana Economic Forum in Nur-Sultan /Kazakhstan Prof.Dr.B.Hallier pointed out the importance of the Eurasian Region for Peace Building and Economic Innovation. The forum was visited among others by the first President of Kazakhstan and the Presidents of Armenia and Georgia, the Managing Director of IMF Christine Lagarde, bankers like Herman Gref/Russia and Nobel Laureates.

In an interview with the business-channel Atameken Prof.Hallier explained that the area has developed within the last 12 years from a follower of innovation towards a driver. There can be seen in Eurasia dramatic investments into new technologies and human resources.
(More: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqBXB2r8F4s)
 

Getting to know the European Retail Academy by her co-student Sampsa Hyväri in Oulu / Finland Trang Pham from Vietnam used the possibility to improve her vocational competences and communication skills creating a YouTube about her home country (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dfWIyw7va0)

Prof.Dr.B.Hallier , being coach of the students , sees in the involvement of the young people the chance for global understanding of different cultures and even better understanding the profile of the own culture. "Exchanges are enhancing the awareness of common ethical interests " he stated - having been during his own studies between 1968 and 1973 himself in Israel, Tukey, USA, South Africa and Japan.
 

Initiated by Kazakhstan's first president Nursultan Nazarbayev and established in 2018 by G-Global in Astana ( see News at www.dailymotion.com/video/x6nihg5) in 2019 the Round Table took place at the Astana Economic Forum.

Moderated by BBC city representatives from Bangkok, Harbin, Hongkong, Lianyungang, Moscow and Tallinn or country representatives from Georgia or Romania explained their profiles as partners of the New Silk Road. Prof.Dr.B.Hallier pointed to the fact that the Silk Road 02 should be seen as a complex system of the three columns of Economics, Ecology and Ethics pushing jointly international cooperation and innovation ( see also interview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqBXB2r8F4s).
 

At the Astana Economic Forum 2019 in Nur-Sultan/Kazakhstan the Turkistan Higher Agrarian College from Shymkent/Kazakhstan signed a MOU with Prof.Dr.B.Hallier to join the Thematic University Network Food (www.european-retail-academy.org/TUN ) for bi- and multi-lateral exchange of knowledge and skills.