About the MOCCA Project
The MOCCA is a research and staff exchange programme that intends to contribute to the global and national efforts of understanding and counteracting corruption by conducting interdisciplinary research on the multilevel orders of corruption in five countries in post-Soviet Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan). More specifically, MOCCA is constructed around three interlinked goals, which are to collect original empirical data (based on research solidly grounded in fieldwork) on the interplay between global anti-corruption norms, nation-state laws, and local meso- and micro-level (everyday) legal cultures in Central Asia and their implications for understanding corruption and its societal effects; to engage with and situate our research in relevant theoretical debates and thereby advance scholarly debates on (anti-) corruption by developing new conceptual and methodological approaches to study and understand it; and to provide strategic intelligence for EU-based political and economic actors interested or already working in the region, and to inform international organisations and decision-makers in the EU and Central Asia on ways to combat corruption and improve the business and investment climate, the rule of law and governance in the region.
MOCCA is a multi-sited, interdisciplinary, and multisectoral initiative that involves a network of leading academic and institutional partners from Europe and Central Asia.
European University Partners:
- Lund University (Sweden)
- University of Zurich (Switzerland)
- Vilnius University (Lithuania)
- Marmara University (Turkey)
- University of Helsinki (Finland)
- Aarhus University (Denmark)
- Charles University Prague (Czech Republic)
- Istanbul Medipol University (Turkey)
- University of the West of England, Bristol (UK)
- University of Ulster (UK)
Central Asian Partners:
- General Prosecutor’s Office of Uzbekistan
- Tajik State University of Commerce
- Anti-Corruption Business Council of the Kyrgyz Republic
- Transparency International Kazakhstan
- OSCE Academy in Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan)
- Kurultai Research and Consulting (Uzbekistan)
- Zhetysu University (Kazakhstan)
- Business-Ombudsman of Uzbekistan
- Tebigy Kuwwat Public Association (Turkmenistan)
Staff mobility:
Dr. Indira Satarkulova – Marmara University (April-May 2024)
Dr. Burulcha Sulaimanova – Marmara University (May-June 2024)
Dr. Almakan Orozobekova – Lund University (April-May 2024)
Dr. Sebastian Mayer – Lund University (May-June in 2025)