CAGHAN Team Meets at the OSCE Academy

On 8 October 2024, the OSCE Academy held an in-person meeting of the Central Asia: Governance, History, Anthropology & Neighborhoods (CAGHAN) team. The meeting was led by Dr. Jeroen Van den Bosch and Joanna Barszcz, representatives of the partnering Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland. Dr. Pal Dunay, Interim Director of the OSCE Academy, Dr. Indira Satarkulova, Deputy Director, and Mrs. Cholpon Osmonalieva, Head of the Education Department took part in the meeting on behalf of the Academy, a local coordinator of the CAGHAN programme, along with representatives of the International University of Kyrgyzstan that hosted the first day of the meeting on 7th of October. Participants discussed key topics such as the roles of local coordinators, the potential use of facilities at the International University of Kyrgyzstan, organizing exchange programmes with partner universities in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan during the fourth semester of the planned study programme. The team also addressed the formal division of labor among universities, joint diploma requirements, budget distribution, and student services.

CAGHAN – is a planned Erasmus Mundus Joint Masters on Central (Eur)Asian Studies. A 2-year Master's programme (Area Studies) aimed at providing in-depth knowledge and skills to future specialists on this “region” (both in its narrow and broader understanding). Beside instruction on four of the region’s titular languages (Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Tajik and Uzbek, but also offering Russian), courses are to be drawn from a multidisciplinary programme, encompassing History, Political Science, as well as Sociology, Anthropology, supported by their relevant methodologies.

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