Perhaps the most lasting legacy of the Silk Roads has been their role in bringing cultures and peoples in contact with each other, and facilitating exchange between them. On a practical level, merchants had to learn the languages and customs of the countries they travelled through, in order to negotiate successfully. Cultural interaction was a vital aspect of material exchange. Moreover, many travelers ventured onto the Silk Roads in order to partake in this process of intellectual and cultural exchange that was taking place in cities along the routes. Knowledge about science, arts and literature, as well as crafts and technologies was shared across the Silk Roads, and in this way, languages, religions and cultures developed and influenced each other. One of the most famous technical advances to have been propagated worldwide by the Silk Roads was the technique of making paper, as well as the development of printing press technology. Similarly, irrigation systems across Central Asia share features that were spread by travelers who not only carried their own cultural knowledge, but also absorbed that of the societies in which they found themselves.

Жибек Жолу изилдөө борбору калыс изилдөө жүргүзүү жана практикалык инновациялык сунуштарды берүү миссиясы менен Эл аралык Ала-Тоо университетинин көз карандысыз, бейтарап илимий борбору болуп саналат.

Биз инновациялык идеяларды, демократиялык жана адам укуктарынын баалуулуктарын илгерилетүүгө жана жайылтууга, экономикалык жана социалдык жыргалчылыкка көмөктөшүүгө жана ачык жана кызматташтыкка негизделген эл аралык системаларды кубаттоого багытталган.

The Center seeks to bring together a community of scholars committed to expanding the research activities and cumulate academic data in their fields of studies.

The Center is also aimed at providing a platform for discussion for various actors, such as academics, researchers, politicians, members of NGOs, civil society activists, businesspersons, writers, journalists, and others.
Through its seminars, conferences, congresses, publications, books, monographs, periodicals, and articles, the Center raises public awareness and stimulate debate on various public policies and important developments in its fields of study.

With best regards,
Sanzharbek Erdolatov, Assoc. Prof. Candidate of Pedagogical Science, 
Director, Silk Road Research Center
Ala-Too International University

Email:  sanzharbek.erdolatov@alatoo.edu.kg