Projet CARSI (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Staff Exchanges
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Development assistance to the Caucasus and Central Asian regions has grown significantly. Not only do these regions attract international attention for some of the largest world reservoirs of natural resources, but they are also considered fertile markets for their proximity and links to Europe. What possibly distinguishes the EU’s approach from others (i.e. China, India, US) is its interest not only in technical innovation and local market shares but also the regions’ social and human development. This is a major tendency with the EC that has been addressed already as early as 2014, when development strategies started emphasising the importance of taking into account social impacts in its overall development approach. In spite of this declarative intentions by local governments, but even by EU agencies, to introduce social innovation in development and assistance have not been followed through by clear and precise instructions on how to do this. This is visible both at the international and local levels and may be due to: 1) the fact that although a framework for EU-Caucasus-Central Asia relations has significantly advanced, production of specialists and intelligence regarding the regions has not followed accordingly; 2) only a limited amount of intelligence on the region is available. As a response, CARSI is a training and research programme bringing together 16 leading institutions across two continents with a major focus on the Caucasus and Central Asia to train fellows through secondment and eventually produce new empirical evidence on the region. By processing first-hand data and thus identifying the gap between declarative approaches and reality with regards to social innovation CARSI teams will define new relationships between global social innovation approaches and social theory while working to translate research findings into policy recommendations

Mots clés : central asia, development, international cooperation

Participants :
- Kiev international institute of sociology llc (Ukraine) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 101200.0 €
- Université de Coimbra (Portugal) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 174800.0 €
- Université d'Uppsala (Suède) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 202400.0 €
- Tashkent State University of Law (Ouzbékistan) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université d'État d'économie de Tachkent (Ouzbékistan) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Lettonie (Lettonie) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 202400.0 €
- Siar research and consulting llc (Kirghizistan) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- National University of Mongolia (Mongolie) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université d'ADA (Azerbaïdjan) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Research center sharq (oriens) (Tadjikistan) — Partner, associated partner, Recherche, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Marmara (Turquie) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 253000.0 €
- Transitions sdruzeni (Rép. Tchèque) — Partner, beneficiary, Autres, subvention : 202400.0 €
- Université de la ville de Dublin (Irlande) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 174800.0 €
- Center for Economic and Policy Research (Géorgie) — Partner, beneficiary, Autres, subvention : 128800.0 €
- Université de technologie de Tallinn (Estonie) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 179400.0 €
- Université nationale kazakhe Al-Farabi (Kazakhstan) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €