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Space Exploration

Uzbekkosmos and NASA Unite for World Space Week Celebrations in Uzbekistan

The Uzbekkosmos agency has announced a series of events in celebration of World Space Week, which will take place in Uzbekistan from October 4 to 10. This global event, commemorated in nearly 100 countries, was established by a UN General Assembly resolution in 1999, recognizing the importance of space exploration. As part of the World Space Week festivities, Uzbekkosmos is launching several major initiatives. A key highlight is a special exhibition on space history at the Tashkent City Mall Trade and Entertainment Center, which will open its doors on October 4. In addition, on October 5 and 6, Uzbekkosmos, in collaboration with NASA, will host the NASA Space Apps Challenge 2024 hackathon. This event will take place at the Turin Polytechnic University in Tashkent, where over 200 young innovators, organized into approximately 40 teams, will showcase their creative projects.

Tourism

Tajikistan to Host First International Tourism Exhibition

To coincide with World Tourism Day, Tajikistan will host its first International Tourism Exhibition (DITE) in Dushanbe from September 25 to 27, 2024. Initiated by the city's head, Rustami Emomali, the key aims of the event are to promote the development of the tourism industry and the formation of a regional tourism market, and attract foreign investment. The exhibition will bring together Tajikistan's tourism companies as well as representatives of tourist industries in countries including Austria, Pakistan, Iran, Russia, Belarus, Turkey, China, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Qatar, and Uzbekistan, and will be complemented by an International Tourism Forum and B2B meetings where new cooperation agreements will be signed. In addition, consulting sessions will provide opportunities for hotel businesses and guides to improve their levels of service and professionalism in the industry. As reported by the Committee for Tourism Development of Tajikistan to ASIA-Plus, 748.3 thousand foreigners, of which 91.9% were residents of CIS countries, visited Tajikistan within the first six months of this year. The number of tourists totaled 580.5 thousand, 422,614 of whom hailed from neighboring Uzbekistan, rose by 19.1% compared to the same period last year.

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Turkmenistan Hosts European Exhibition on Energy-Saving

An ambitious and multi-faceted traveling exhibition “Transition to Renewable Energy Sources—Energy of the Future” has just opened at the Technology Center of the Academy of Sciences of Turkmenistan. As reported by “Turkmenistan: Golden Age”, the exhibition, curated by the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ), presents the various means and measures developed by European countries to save energy. Divided into five sections, the exhibition provides a hands-on exploration of energy efficiency practices through interactive touch panels and by immersing themselves in virtual reality, visitors can envisage the world in the future. The exhibition highlights the multilevel aspects, challenges, and potential of the global energy transition from society, politics, economics, and science perspectives, and during its tour, aims to encourage widespread dialogue and an exchange of knowledge and views on decarbonization and global energy transition. Regarding the tour, project manager Yasmine Deren, stated, “This exhibition started three years ago and has already visited Europe, Asia, the Gulf States and in Central Asia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. We are happy that the exhibition is now being shown in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan and afterwards, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan." The exhibition will be displayed Monday - Saturday in Ashgabat until 25 June and thereafter, in Turkmenistan's city of Mary.