On 26 June 2024, the OSCE Academy hosted the Multilevel Orders of Corruption in Central Asia (MOCCA) team meeting. The meeting started with the ceremony of signing a bilateral Memorandum of Understanding between the two project partners – the OSCE Academy in Bishkek and the Anti-Corruption Business Council under the President of the Kyrgyz Republic. Dr. Kate Walker, Director of the OSCE Academy, and Nuripa Mukanova, Secretary General of the Anti-Corruption Business Council, signed the document that allows to cooperate in the fields of research and professional trainings. This agreement allows to conduct joint conferences, workshops, and guest lectures; exchange of experts; and internships of students and graduates of the OSCE Academy.
Following the signing of the Memorandum, representatives of the MOCCA partners - Mrs. Nuripa Mukanova, Dr. Indira Satarkulova, Deputy Director of the OSCE Academy, Dr. Burulcha Sulaymanova, Senior Lecturer at the OSCE Academy, Dr. Almakan Orozobekova, Project and Training Specialist at the OSCE Academy, Dr. Aine Ramonaite, Head of the Department of Political Behaviour and Institutions and leader of the (Post)Soviet Memory Studies Center at Lund University, and Dr. Julita Slipkauskaitė, Lecturer at Lund University, presented their research projects and findings.
From the beginning of 2023 we are proud to be a Central Asian project partner of the "MOCCA: Multilevel Orders of Corruption in Central Asia," a Horizon 2021 project led by the University of Lund, Sweden. MOCCA is a research and staff exchange programme intended to contribute to the global and national efforts of understanding and counteracting corruption by conducting research on the multilevel orders of corruption in five countries in post-Soviet Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan). MOCCA is a 4-year research and training project funded by the European Commission.