On October 22, 2021, Kadir Akan, Associate Professor at the Kyrshehir University Ahi Evran (Turkey), was invited to conduct an online training seminar for students, undergraduates and doctoral students of the Institute of Natural Science and Geography of Abai KazNPU. Foreign professor and 3rd year doctoral student of our university Bakirov Serik conducted a training seminar on the topic «Pests and diseases of grain crops in Turkey». The event was successful and aroused great interest among all its participants. They expressed their gratitude to the organizers - teachers of the EP «Biology».