Call for Registration: 10th Anniversary Life in Kyrgyzstan Conference

October 9-11, 2024

2024 will mark the 10^th anniversary of the Life in Kyrgyzstan Conferences held in Bishkek! This landmark conference will once again be convened by the University of Central Asia’s Institute of Public Policy and Administration (UCA-IPPA), the Leibniz Institute of Vegetable and Ornamental Crops (IGZ), and the International Security and Development Center (ISDC), with the additional support of the American University Central Asia (AUCA), the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), and the World Bank.  

We are therefore pleased to invite you to the 10^th Anniversary Life in Kyrgyzstan (LiK) Conference to be held in the Orion Hotel in Bishkek on October 9-11, 2024. In addition to two keynote speeches and two days of thematic panel sessions, a LiK data users workshop, professional and academic networking opportunities and a conference reception. In addition, in February 2024 we launched a new monthly LiK Webinar series, held online.

This year’s keynote speakers are First Deputy Minister Tchoro Seyitov from the Ministry of Economy and Commerce of the Kyrgyz Republic and Professor Martin Petrick from the Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany.

The Life in Kyrgyzstan Conference is an established annual event convened each October in Bishkek. It brings together national and international experts from academia, government, development agencies, non-governmental organizations, media and research institutions. The LiK Conference serves as a platform for exchanging leading-edge knowledge and experiences on recent socio-economic and environmental developments in Kyrgyzstan and Central Asia, with the aim of promoting evidence-based policy making.

The conference will be held in a hybrid mode to allow both in-person and online participation. The languages of the conference are English and Russian. Simultaneous translation will be provided.

For further information on the Life in Kyrgyzstan Study, please see www.lifeinkyrgyzstan.org or send a message to likconference2024@gmail.com.

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