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On January 28 the VBE research group organized a half-day conference on the subject of science and proven experience in medicine. Speakers were: Anders Castor, pediatric onchology, Lund University, Karel Marsal, obsthetrics and gynechology, Lund university, Nils Ståhl, neurosurgery, Lund university hospital, Susanna Axelsson, head of the Swedish Agency for Health Technology Assessment and Assessme

https://www.vbe.lu.se/article/mini-conference-vbe-medicine - 2025-12-27

The series of half day conferences continues. This time talks center around questions related to how science and proven experience is used in legal settings. The conference will be held at the Faculty of Law at Lund university, 13.15 to 16.15 on June 17. Invited speakers are legal practioners and scholars together with collaborators in the VBE research program. The conference is free of charge but

https://www.vbe.lu.se/article/half-day-conference-lund-june-17-vbe-and-law - 2025-12-27

The goal of Academia Europaea is to, through its members, work for the advancement of research and academic education in all areas, for the public benefit. The Academia Europaea writes in its homepage, http://www.ae-info.org: "The object of Academia Europaea is the advancement and propagation of excellence in scholarship in the humanities, law, the economic, social, and political sciences, mathema

https://www.vbe.lu.se/article/nils-eric-sahlin-elected-academia-europaea - 2025-12-27

Alex Davis, Baruch Fischhoff and co-workers at CMU presented one conference paper and two posters at the Annual Meeting of the Society for General Internal Medicine in Hollywood, Florida. The presentations dealt with new results regarding comparisons between human and automated assessments of risk of patient deterioration, regarding assessment of patient risk between doctors having different degre

https://www.vbe.lu.se/article/vbe-presentations-society-general-internal-medicine - 2025-12-27

For two days, August 17-18, the VBE group met in Biskobshuset in Lund for discussions about ongoing and future work within the program. Focus was on new areas of collaboration between the participants in the program. Both Pittsburgh and Leeds were present at the meeting and we were very happy to welcome three new participants to the group. From CMU, Barry Dewitt, working on utility measures for qu

https://www.vbe.lu.se/article/annual-meeting-vbe-group - 2025-12-27

Tamar Krishnamurti, researcher from CMU in Pittsburgh, is associated to the VBE program. She visited the Annual Meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making in Vancouver and a workshop in Washington, D. C., at the Federal Trade Commission. At both occasions she presented work related to VBE. Engaging a high-risk pregnancy population: Results from a proof-of-concept pilot of the MyHealthyPreg

https://www.vbe.lu.se/article/presentations-vbe-related-work-vancouver-and-washington-d-c - 2025-12-27

Two papers by Alex, Baruch and the VBE associated researchers at CMU have been presented lately. One at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Mecical Decision Making, in Vancouver, and one at the Annual Meeting of the Society for General Internal Medicine. The papers presented were:Davis, A., Krishnamurti, T., Fischhoff, B., Grace, J., Klobuka, A., Yecies, E., Arnold, J., Mohan, D., Hanmer, J. Base

https://www.vbe.lu.se/article/presentations-cmu-branch-vbe - 2025-12-27

Den 26 oktober är det dags för nästa halvdagsseminarium i Lund, denna gång om VBE i skolan. Forskare och beslutsfattare inom skola och utbildning kommer, tillsammans med forskare från VBE-programmet, att föreläsa och diskutera om hur vetenskap och beprövad erfarenhet förstås, och bör förstås, i skolans värld. Program för dagen hittar du här. Föranmälan krävs då det är begränsat antal platser. Anmä

https://www.vbe.lu.se/article/halvdagsseminarium-om-vbe-i-skolan-26-oktober - 2025-12-27

Early 2016, the VBE group arranged a half-day workshop in Lund on the theme VBE in Medicine. Participants from areas such as obstetrics, oncology, neuro surgery, and nursing science provided a variety of perspectives on how science and proven experience is perceived "out there". The talks from the workshop has here been put together in a publication that is the first of what will become a series,

https://www.vbe.lu.se/article/vbe-medicine-publication-swedish-workshop-lund - 2025-12-27

On 20-21 September 2024, the OSCE Academy conducted its annual Alumni Conference on the theme of “Economic Development of Central Asia” featuring three panels: Anti-Corruption, Green Economy and Digital Economy. During two days, participants discussed regional corruption issues and anti-corruption policies, sustainable economic practices, environmental stewardship, and addressed the way digitaliza

https://www.mocca.lu.se/article/economic-development-central-asia-alumni-conference-osce-academy-bishkek - 2025-12-27

On October 16-17th, 2024 Uzbekistan hosted the IV Tashkent Anticorruption Forum to promote innovation, strengthen compliance, and foster global cooperation. The Forum was organized by the Anti-Corruption Agency of the Republic Uzbekistan in collaboration with European Union, the consortium led by GIZ, UNDP and UNODC ROCA. The Forum brought together 250 representatives from anticorruption agencies,

https://www.mocca.lu.se/article/iv-tashkent-anticorruption-forum-panel-discussion-nuruipa-mukanova-secretary-general-anticorruption - 2025-12-27

December 20, 2024. The workshop "Assessment of the Effectiveness of Anti-Corruption Plans: International Standards and Practice 2024" was organized by the Secretariat of the Anti-Corruption Business Council under the President of the Kyrgyz Republic. The workshop was delivered as part of the information dissemination and sharing the research findings conducted at Lund University in Sweden.The foll

https://www.mocca.lu.se/article/workshop-assessment-effectiveness-anti-corruption-plans-international-standards-and-practice-2024 - 2025-12-27

Tashkent’s National University of Uzbekistan recently hosted a captivating master class led by Associate Professor Rustamjon Urinboyev. The session, titled “Publishing Articles in International Journals Included in the Scopus Database: Written and Unwritten Laws,” drew a diverse audience of academics, students, and researchers.Professor Urinboyev shared his expertise on successfully navigating the

https://www.mocca.lu.se/article/associate-professor-rustamjon-urinboyev-hosts-master-class-national-university-uzbekistan - 2025-12-27

As a part of the project’s outreach activities, the MOCCA project hosted a two-day MSCA Ambassador event at Lund University from December 6 to 7, 2024, welcoming 19 high-school students and four teachers from the Academic Lyceum under the University of World Economy and Diplomacy and the "Ambassador" private school in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.Students and teachers arrived in Lund on December 6 and wer

https://www.mocca.lu.se/article/msca-ambassador-event-high-school-students-uzbekistan - 2025-12-27

On October 24, 2024, an international conference on the topic "Development of Free Civil Society and Non-Governmental Non-Profit Organizations" was held in Tashkent as part of the International Cooperation Initiatives Week. Patrik Olssons, a researcher from Lund University participated in this conference during his secondment within the MOCCA project. The conference, organized by the Center for th

https://www.mocca.lu.se/article/patrik-olssons-participation-conference-civil-society-and-non-profit-development - 2025-12-27

Tolibjon Mustafoev, PhD candidate at Lund University For the last few decades, Uzbekistan has been a popular research destination for many scholars studying authoritarian regimes. Indeed, the first president of Uzbekistan, Islam Karimov, had been in power from the first days of independence in 1991 until September 2016. Karimov was known for his policies on closed economy, high bureaucracy, centra

https://www.mocca.lu.se/article/uzbekistan-takes-steps-towards-establishing-welfare-state-and-eradicating-poverty-iron-feast-iron - 2025-12-27

On January 24, Zamir Aiylchyev (from the Anti-Corruption Business Council under the President of the Kyrgyz Republic) led a seminar for 150 students at the Grand Conference Hall of Bishkek State University. The seminar focused on the topic, "Comparative Analysis of Anti-Corruption Practices in the Baltic States and Kyrgyzstan." During the event, Aiylchyev shared insights from his secondment at the

https://www.mocca.lu.se/article/scientific-seminar-students-bishkek-state-university - 2025-12-27

As part of the EU-funded MOCCA (Multi-level Orders of Corruption in Central Asia) project, a delegation from Zhetysu University named after Zhansugurov (Kazakhstan), led by Rector E.A. Buribayev, visited the Law Enforcement Academy during their visit to Uzbekistan.The meeting between MOCCA consortium members—Zhetysu University and the Law Enforcement Academy—focused on advancing collaboration in r

https://www.mocca.lu.se/article/mocca-consortium-members-strengthen-academic-cooperation-during-visit-uzbekistan - 2025-12-27

PRESS RELEASE As part of the MOCCA (Multilevel Orders of Corruption in Central Asia) project’s ongoing knowledge dissemination efforts, a specialised workshop was organised at Uzbekistan National University on 17 March 2025. The event was led by Dilaver Khamzaev, a researcher at the Department of Sociology of Law at Lund University, Sweden.The workshop focused on “Analysing Factors Influencing Cor

https://www.mocca.lu.se/article/mocca-project-dissemination-event-uzbekistan-national-university - 2025-12-27

Lund, Sweden – May 8, 2025 The MOCCA (Multilevel Orders of Corruption in Central Asia) project, funded by the European Commission under the Horizon Europe MSCA-SE programme (Grant No. 101085855), successfully held its Mid-Term Conference from May 6–8, 2025, at Lund University, Sweden. The event brought together over 60 scholars and practitioners from Europe and Central Asia to discuss cutting-edge

https://www.mocca.lu.se/article/mocca-mid-term-conference-explores-corruption-and-governance-central-asia - 2025-12-27