On September 6-8th, Murad Muradov and Simona Scotti attended the annual conference titled "Central Asia's transformations: politics, economy and society", organised by German-Kazakhstani University (DKU). During the event which took place in Almaty, Mr Muradov and Ms Scotti presented the findings of their research, respectively on the security dimension of the integration of Turkic States and on Italy's pathway to Central Asia through the C5+1 format, while also participating in a number of other panels and discussions.