GCRF COMPASS

GCRF COMPASS: Comprehensive Capacity Building in Eastern Neighborhood and Central Asia: research integration, impact governance and sustainable communities is an international project (ES/P010849/1; 2017-21) funded by UK’s Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) and led by University of Kent and University of Cambridge (UK) in partnership with ADA University (Azerbaijan), Belarusian State University (Belarus), Tajik National University (Tajikistan), and University of World Economy and Diplomacy in Uzbekistan (Uzbekistan).

The project explores new approaches to ‘governance’ with focus on resilience, capacity-building, peoplehood, bargaining power, and cooperative orders, to make governance more effective and sustainable.
In practical terms, the project seeks to enhance relations between the UK and partner universities, and to set up regional ‘hubs of excellence’ at the top-level HEIs in Eastern Europe and Central Asia.

The Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) is a fund of the UK Government to support cutting-edge research that addresses the challenges faced by developing countries. COMPASS belongs to the first generation of GCRF projects and aims to support prominent Universities in each partner country in enhancing joint research, developing public platforms, and integrating into a wider European and global scholarly communities.

More information about the project: research.kent.ac.uk/gcrf-compass/#