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SASI03. Open to exchange students only. Environmental Studies and Sustainability Science: Concepts, Challenges and Approaches in Sustainability Studies (SASI03) is an introduction to the interdisciplinary field of sustainability studies. This course gives you an introduction to some of the approaches, theoretical concepts and tools used in sustainability studies. The course uses problem solving an

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/education/courses/environmental-studies-and-sustainability-science-concepts-challenges-and-approaches-sustainability - 2026-06-19

A guest PhD is someone who is enrolled in a PhD program at another institution, but wishes to spend time (generally 1-6 months) physically based at LUCSUS. Guest PhDs can contribute to and benefit from the intellectual environment at LUCSUS, and LUCSUS can offer to host Guest PhDs under the following guidelines. Guest PhDs  A PhD who wishes to visit LUCSUS for a guest position should directly cont

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/research/phd-programme/phd-admission-and-funding/phd-guest-researchers-lucsus - 2026-06-19

Tilde Krusberg Meet PhD student Tilde Krusberg Stefan Schüller Meet PhD student Stefan Schüller Emilia Ganslandt Meet PhD student Emilia Ganslandt Juan Antonio Samper Meet PhD Student Juan Antonio Samper Valentina Lomanto Meet PhD student Valentina Lomanto Carmen Margiotta Meet Phd student Carmen Margiotta Jonas Allesson Meet PhD student Jonas Allesson Sahana Subramanian Meet PhD student Sahana Su

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/research/phd-programme/meet-our-phd-students - 2026-06-19

Understanding and explaining pressing sustainability challenges and driving social change. Welcome to Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies, an interdisciplinary centre for research, teaching and impact. Read LUCSUS Annual Report for 2025 Research that matters Lund University ranked first in the world in QS Sustainability Ranking 2026 Making an impact for sustainability beyond academia

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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 partners from different sectors and world regions that would otherwise have few chances to interact. Knowledge sharing mechanisms are thoroughly interrelated with th

https://www.norca.lu.se/about-mars/aims - 2026-06-19

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 of migration governance and migrants’ experiences in non-Western migration locales. Reflecting on the multilevel perspective (global, regional and national level

https://www.norca.lu.se/about-mars/methodological-approach - 2026-06-19

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-Western migration hubs, such as the Middle East, Central Asia, Eastern Europe, the Balkans, North Africa, the Gulf States, West and Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America,

https://www.norca.lu.se/about-mars/novelty - 2026-06-19

https://www.norca.lu.se/polca/publications/book-chapters - 2026-06-19

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 valid lessons or knowledge that can inform the broader field of migration studies today; (2) or, whether these perspectives are marginal cases that are far too spec

https://www.norca.lu.se/about-mars/project-rationale - 2026-06-19

“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 01/01/2023 through 31/12/2026. MOCCA is a research and staff exchange programme intended to contribute to the global and national efforts of understanding and coun

https://www.norca.lu.se/mocca - 2026-06-19

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 has lost its validity in the light of the current ever-growing global coalition against corruption, spearheaded by Transparency International (TI) and the World

https://www.norca.lu.se/project/about - 2026-06-19

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 five countries in Central Asia - Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.MOCCA project aims to:collect original empirical data on the inter

https://www.norca.lu.se/project/aims - 2026-06-19

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 framework for the study of corruption, the multilevel orders of corruption. This framework will allow the MOCCA team to understand corruption from an interdisciplina

https://www.norca.lu.se/project/methodological-approach - 2026-06-19

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, government anti-corruption bodies, business ombudsman, international/multigovernmental dialogue organizations, law enforcement, civil society and anti-corruption NGOs, de

https://www.norca.lu.se/project/novelty - 2026-06-19

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 and governance in Central AsiaLack of specialists and intelligence focusing on Central Asian legal cultures and business environment

https://www.norca.lu.se/project/project-rationale - 2026-06-19

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, institutions, indicators, and discourses: explore the politics, power relations, indicators, and discourses that underlie the global anti-corruption industry,

https://www.norca.lu.se/project/research-objectives - 2026-06-19

https://www.norca.lu.se/research-streams-0 - 2026-06-19

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-corruption industry and examine their impact on legal and institutional developments and governance practices in given socio-legal contexts (e.g., Central Asia) t

https://www.norca.lu.se/research-streams-0/research-stream-1 - 2026-06-19

https://www.norca.lu.se/polca/publications/books - 2026-06-19