On April 7, 2022 XIV Republican Subject Olympiad in Religious Studies and theology among university students was held of the Department of Religious Studies of the L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University.
The intellectual competition were attended six teams from educational institutions of the country, graduates of specialists in religious studies and theologians including L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University (Nur-Sultan), Nur-Mubarak Islamic University (Almaty), Al-Farabi Kazakh National University (Almaty), E.A.Buketov Karaganda National University (Karaganda), International Kazakh-Turkish University (Turkestan) and K.Zhubanov Aktobe Regional University (Aktobe).
Welcoming speech were made by Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences B.Somzhurek, Chairman of the Olympiad jury D.Kenzhetaev, Deputy Chairman of the jury T.Kenshilik, and Head of the Department of Religious Studies M.Smagulov.
On the opening of the event, the analyst-manager of the N.A. Nazarbayev Center for the Development of Interfaith and Intercivilization Dialogue Z. Malgarayeva performed with report on the topic "Congress of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions as a unique platform for dialogue".
The Olympiad was held in three stages: presentation of a scientific project, written testing and a question-answer on selected topics.
The results of all stages of the event, the KazNU team won the honorable 1st place in the team competition, the teams of ENU and Nur-Mubarak University took the 2nd place, the teams from Turkestan, Aktobe and Karaganda took the 3rd place.
The winners and prize-winners of the Olympiad were awarded with diplomas, their leaders with letters of thanks. Special prizes from the N.A. Nazarbayev Center for the Development of Interfaith and Intercivilization Dialogue were presented by Deputy Chairman of the Board M. Karabayeva.
The relay of the next Olympiad was handed over to Nur-Mubarak University, as the first place in the individual competition was taken by a student of this university.
