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Call for applications: 17 Fully-Funded PhD Positions within the project "SOCIAL" funded by the European Commission's MSCA DN programme. Programme Title: Sociology of Authoritarian Law: Insights from Central Asia (SOCIAL)Funding: Horizon…

https://www.norca.lu.se/article/call-applications-17-fully-funded-phd-positions-within-msca-dn-social-project- 2026-05-27

Lund, Sweden – November 10, 2025 Researchers from Uzbekistan's General Prosecutor's Office, leading academic institutions, and civil society organizations convened at Lund University to present their research on anti-corruption measures…

https://www.norca.lu.se/article/multidisciplinary-research-seminar-corruption-and-migration-challenges- 2026-05-27

Tashkent, Uzbekistan – November 18-19, 2025 Within the framework of the MOCCA (Multilevel Orders of Corruption in Central Asia) and MARS (Non-Western Migration Regimes in a Global Perspective) projects, project team members from Lund…

https://www.norca.lu.se/article/lund-university-mocca-and-mars-project-teams-contribute-first-central-asia-nordics-think-tank-forum- 2026-05-27

The MOCCA project (Multi-level Orders of Corruption in Central Asia), in collaboration with the MARS project, hosted an international research seminar at Lund University on January 22, bringing together scholars and early-career…

https://www.norca.lu.se/article/mocca-research-seminar-explores-corruption-governance-and-higher-education-challenges-central-asia- 2026-05-27

https://www.norca.lu.se/news-and-events- 2026-05-27

Our project aims at increasing the fellows' capacity to produce innovative and original research, at establishing long lasting partnerships among the institutions and research teams involved and creating new networks of contacts among…

https://www.norca.lu.se/about-mars/aims- 2026-05-27

In order to address our research aims and questions and meet both the research and training objectives, the project employs a research and training programme with large components of self-learning through an in-depth empirical examination…

https://www.norca.lu.se/about-mars/methodological-approach- 2026-05-27

The novelty of MARS, and its innovation potential, is rooted in its approach comprising: 1) A solid international consortium, with participants based in 18 countries, involving leading specialists studying migratory processes in non…

https://www.norca.lu.se/about-mars/novelty- 2026-05-27

https://www.norca.lu.se/polca/publications/book-chapters- 2026-02-06

The MARS’s research programme is concerned with exploring such pressing questions as (1) whether empirical evidence and theoretical perspectives obtained from the study of non-Western migration locales actually contribute any generally…

https://www.norca.lu.se/about-mars/project-rationale- 2026-05-27

“MOCCA: Multilevel Orders of Corruption in Central Asia” is a 4-year research and training project funded by the European Commission’s HORIZON-MSCA-2021-SE-01-01 - MSCA Staff Exchanges 2021 programme (project number 101085855) runs from 01…

https://www.norca.lu.se/mocca- 2026-06-03

Corruption has become, without a doubt, a buzzword in both academic and policy debates over the last three decades. The initial view that “corruption greases the wheels of economic growth” in the newly independent states of Africa and Asia…

https://www.norca.lu.se/project/about- 2026-05-27

MOCCA is a research and staff exchange programme intended to contribute to the global and national efforts of understanding and counteracting corruption by conducting interdisciplinary research on the multilevel orders of corruption in…

https://www.norca.lu.se/project/aims- 2026-05-27

To conduct a comprehensive analysis of major (global and national) anti-corruption laws, policies and programmes and to assess how they are applied, perceived and reshaped in everyday life situations, the MOCCA team will develop a new…

https://www.norca.lu.se/project/methodological-approach- 2026-05-27

MOCCA is the first research and staff exchanges programme on multilevel and interdisciplinary study of (anti-) corruption, consisting of 8 European universities and 9 associated partners from Central Asia that come from academia,…

https://www.norca.lu.se/project/novelty- 2026-05-27

Economic relations between EU and Central Asian countriesChallenging business environment: inconsistent business ethics and weak rule-of-lawLack of understanding of the interconnections between legal cultures, local business environments…

https://www.norca.lu.se/project/project-rationale- 2026-05-27

MOCCA team will conduct empirical studies in Central Asia and examine (anti-) corruption laws and policies adopted (“law in books”) and how they are applied and work in real-life situations (“living in action”). Global anti-corruption laws…

https://www.norca.lu.se/project/research-objectives- 2026-05-27

https://www.norca.lu.se/research-streams-0- 2026-05-27

The first research stream is on global anti-corruption laws, institutions, indicators, and discourses. The goal of this research stream is to explore the politics, power relations, indicators, and discourses that underlie the global anti…

https://www.norca.lu.se/research-streams-0/research-stream-1- 2026-05-27

https://www.norca.lu.se/polca/publications/books- 2026-02-06