The wider objective of SAMUz is to promote the relevance and quality of agricultural higher education in Uzbekistan by i) reacting to the changed needs of the labour market after transition, ii) becoming adaptive to globally changing conditions and the necessity of sustainable development, and iii) delivering ecologically and economically sustainable agrarian management studies at farm, sector and political level. As a consequence, SAMUz contributes to the improvement of rural welfare in Uzbekistan. The specific project objective is the establishment of a modernised and Bologna aligned three level higher education system in the area of farm management and agricultural economics through i) adjusted and newly developed curricula on BA and MA level and a newly created PhD school, ii) improved teaching competences and materials, iii) enhanced university-business cooperation, and iv) implemented quality assurance policies and procedures according to European Quality Standards at all Uzbek Agricultural Universities by the end of the project. The principle outcomes are: # WP1 (DEV1): Curricula development of revised BA course “Farm management” and new MA course “Agrarian Management” at all agricultural universities in UZ # WP2 (DEV2): Creation of cross-university PhD school “Agrarian policy and economics” # WP3 (DEV3): Up-date of “hard and soft ware” at developed study courses (i.e. teaching materials, technical infrastructure for PhD school, e-learning environment, improved teaching competences) # WP4 (DEV4): Set-up of quality assurance scheme for education # WP5 (EXP): Sustainability of modernised education (i.e. pilot phase, accreditation of revised BA and new MA at leading agricultural university and transfer to other agricultural universities in UZ) # WP6 (QPLN): Quality control & evaluation of project # WP7 (DISS): Dissemination of results # WP8 (MNGT): Project management and administration