Community of Practice Students Competition

Duration
February – December 2014
Location
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
Funding sources
World Bank
Budget
$ 50 000
Status
Completed
Partners
Universities of Central Asian countries

Knowledge is a key for sustainable development and well-being of Central Asia.  Disintegration of the Soviet education system led to degradation of academic, research and practice communities of the region. Presently, there are no programs supporting master and doctoral research reflecting the real needs and requiring scientific attention.  The competition will focus on fostering trilateral cooperation within the framework of student research to ensure support of such efforts with valid scientific and research data and, and as a result, integrated solutions. 

The main idea of the competition was to support the student society and to conduct a scientific research aimed on developing methods of rational management of the Water Resources and on protecting the environment in Central Asian countries. The competition targeted the participants from all Central Asian countries.

The World Bank serves as the donor of this project involving a wide range of Central Asian universities.

The main idea of the competition was to support the student society and to conduct a scientific research aimed on developing methods of rational management of the Water Resources and on protecting the environment in Central Asian countries

  • Establishment and support of activities by the academic community network comprised of members of Central Asian universities, scientific and R&D organizations;

  • Carrying out a competition of master student research applications;

  • Rendering financial support to the winners of the applications competition;

  • Holding a project-specific awareness-raising campaign. 

  • Establishment of an academic communities’ network;

  • Selection of 10 master research applications to participate in the competition;

  • Financial support of the research within the 10 winning applications;

  • Holding a regional event to present and to award the work conducted within the winning research applications.

During the last 20 years, this was the first project in Central Asia uniting the representatives of academic, scientific and R&D organizations, students, and practitioners with the aim of conducting evidence-based research of applied nature in a specific area.

Project manager – Ekaterina Strikeleva

E-mail: estrikeleva@carececo.org  

Tel.: +7 727 265 43 33 (ext. 275)