International projects
Turiba University is actively expanding its international cooperation, initiating, developing, and implementing various local, national, and international projects.
We believe that the development of the University is inconceivable without innovative initiatives, the creation of new teaching approaches and methods, and without international collaboration. To prepare high-quality new professionals, it is essential for our university to provide opportunities for learning in an international environment, meeting lecturers, and professionals from around the world. Therefore, we realize international projects in collaboration with universities and partners worldwide.
Through these projects, we have developed new and innovative educational resources and tools, published books, organized international conferences, exchange trips, study visits, summer schools, and other activities.
We have extensive experience in international project management and have been actively involved in coordinating projects such as Central Baltic Interreg, Erasmus Mundus, Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs program, European Social fund, JUSTICE, NORDPLUS, and ERASMUS+ projects.
Project department initiate and implement projects in collaboration with our faculties and their experts. We are excited to collaborate and bring your ideas to life! Get in touch with us:
KRISTĪNE NEIMANE, Head of project department: kristine.neimane@turiba.lv, Phone: +371 67615541, mob.+371 29628681
IEVA BRUKSLE, Project coordinator: ieva.bruskle@turiba.lv, Phone: +371 67616022
HORIZON EUROPE project “The Political Economy of Legal and Governance Reform in Non-Western Societies - Insights from Central Asia”, POLCA
In January 2026, Turiba University, together with a broad international consortium of partners, will launch the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation project “The Political Economy of Legal and Governance Reform in Non-Western Societies - Insights from Central Asia” (POLCA), implemented under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions within the MSCA Staff Exchanges programme. The project involves higher education institutions and non-academic organisations from Europe, North America, Central Asia, the Middle East and East Asia.
The aim of the project is to advance understanding of the challenges related to promoting good governance and the rule of law in non-Western societies, with a particular focus on the Central Asian region. The POLCA project analyses alternative institutions, norms and practices that shape legal and governance reforms in countries with historical, social and political contexts different from those of Western democracies.
The project is based on an interdisciplinary and intersectoral approach, bringing together law, political economy, development studies and social sciences. Within the framework of POLCA, original empirical data will be collected, new theoretical insights will be developed, and international academic cooperation on the role of law, institutions and norms in governance reform processes outside the Western world will be strengthened.
Special attention is paid to knowledge exchange and the transfer of research results into policy-making and development cooperation practice. The project aims to provide evidence-based recommendations to international organisations, policy-makers, development agencies and practitioners on possible solutions for strengthening the rule of law and good governance in non-Western societies.
Within the framework of the project, Turiba University will actively participate in international staff exchange activities by hosting visiting researchers and ensuring the mobility of Turiba’s academic staff to partner institutions. The project will promote knowledge transfer, the development of new research skills and sustainable international cooperation in legal and governance research.
Main objectives:
- to collect original empirical data and generate new theoretical insights into alternative legal and governance institutions in non-Western societies;
- to develop an interdisciplinary and intersectoral research and training programme;
- to promote knowledge exchange between the academic and non-academic sectors;
- to provide policy recommendations for strengthening good governance and the rule of law.
Expected results:
- new internationally comparable studies on legal and governance reforms outside the Western context;
- strengthened researcher competences and career development in an international environment;
- long-term cooperation networks between higher education institutions and policy-making bodies;
- transfer of knowledge to international development and policy practice.
Project partners:
The project is implemented by 30 partners, including:
- Lund University, Sweden (coordinator)
- University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
- University of Zurich, Switzerland
- University of the West of England, Bristol, United Kingdom
- Malmö University, Sweden
- Charles University, Czech Republic
- Estonian Business School, Estonia
- Södertörn University, Sweden
- University of Toronto, Canada
- Turiba University, Latvia
- as well as partners from Central Asia, the Middle East and East Asia.
Project duration:
📅 48 months
The project is funded by the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions.
Project number: 101228676
📩 Contacts:
Project manager: Mg.sc.env. Kristīne Neimane - kristine.neimane@turiba.lv
Academic project leader: Prof. PhD Raimundas Kalesnykas - raimundas.kalesnykas@turiba.lv