Training Week in Dushanbe

From 8 to 13 December 2025, a delegation from the University of Genoa—comprising Enrico Albanesi, Professor of Constitutional and Public Law; Johan Augusto Bocanegra Cifuentes, Researcher in Industrial Applied Physics; and Angelo Musaio, Head of the International Cooperation Development Office—visited the Tajik National University in Dushanbe, Tajikistan.

The three UniGe representatives took part in a week-long training programme involving ten universities from the five Central Asian countries—Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Turkmenistan—within the framework of the Erasmus+ CBHE ESGCA – Bridging Environmental Concerns, Societal Needs and Good Governance in Central Asian Education and Employment Sectors. The programme focused on ESG risk management in the context of sustainable development.

The Round Table

The training week concluded with a round-table discussion involving a range of stakeholders, followed by a coordination meeting during which participants addressed several key aspects of the project, which will enter its second year of implementation in 2026.

Among the main topics discussed was the design and development of Master’s degree programmes at the ten participating Central Asian universities, a key objective of the project’s next phase.

The ESGCA Project and Next Steps

The Dushanbe event marked the conclusion of the series of training seminars held in Astana, Kazakhstan, and Bukhara, Uzbekistan, during 2025, focusing respectively on the environmental and social dimensions of ESG within the ESGCA project.

The ESGCA project, funded by the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) under the Erasmus+ programme, is coordinated by the University of Genoa in partnership with Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu (Romania) and the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava (Slovakia).

This partnership builds on a long-standing and successful collaboration with Central Asian countries that began in 2006, was further strengthened through the Erasmus Mundus CANEM project, and has now evolved into the ESGCA initiative.

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