Filippov Vladimir

In the context of pairing the project «Economic belt of the silk road» and the Eurasian economic Union the relevance of the cooperation in the education field of the member-countries of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is increasing. The authors emphasize that at present the universities in the SCO countries belong to different educational spaces - European (Russian Federation, Kazakhstan) and Asia Pacific (Russian Federation, China). The experience of the cooperation accumulated over the years in the framework of the SCO University can play an important role in the harmonization of the education practices in the Eurasian space. The evolution of the SCO University, its main educational programs, the participation of China in the work of this network format are described in the article.