Termez State University provides scientific expertise to regional government through its Regional Research Centre and direct exchanges with public authorities. Its 2025 work includes a government-requested investigation of desert hazards affecting settlements, presentations to the Surkhandarya governor on research and economic development, and information on graduate employment. These activities connect university knowledge with identifiable public decisions and regional needs.
A specific example is the Kattaqum project reported on 26 July 2025. The university’s Regional Research Centre was working in response to Surkhandarya regional government letter 04-04/1636 of 11 July 2025. With scientists from China’s Xinjiang Institute of Geography and Ecology, university specialists were developing scientific solutions and proposals to reduce the effects of moving sand and hot, dry winds on settlements in Termez and Jarkurgan districts. The request identifies the government client, the university unit and the environmental problem requiring expert support.
The reported work combined field assessment and monitoring with remote sensing, mapping and analysis. Proposed measures included stabilising mobile sand dunes, planning desert greening, establishing protective green belts and selecting plants suited to desert conditions. These are practical choices for land management and settlement protection. The university’s contribution was the scientific development of solutions and proposals, with monitoring and geographical analysis supporting the advice. The project therefore provides a concrete example of expertise supplied in response to a regional authority’s request.
The Regional Research Centre supplies an institutional mechanism for this work. Its published remit includes analysing regional socioeconomic conditions, identifying systemic problems, preparing strategic analyses and forecasts, conducting sociological research and developing scientifically grounded recommendations. It explicitly includes preparing analytical information for state bodies and cooperating with public authorities, local government, research institutes and international organisations. The centre draws on university academics, researchers and subject specialists. Its mandate covers economic development, public administration, agriculture, industry and environmental issues, allowing government questions to be examined across disciplines. The university’s report of 29 July 2025 also records that centre activities were considered at a rector-led management meeting.
TerSU’s published SDG cooperation account describes a broader advisory relationship with the ecology and agriculture ministries and regional economic and environmental authorities. It identifies analytical information, strategic recommendations and methodological assistance on sustainable resource use as university contributions. The account also describes modelling and monitoring of land, water and climate issues. This sets out the university’s published approach to supporting public policy with scientific analysis.
On 5 November 2025, the university hosted a meeting between Surkhandarya governor Ulug‘bek Qosimov, entrepreneurs, university academics, researchers and young startup initiators. University participants presented startup projects and artificial intelligence developments. Discussion covered the university’s Spin Off work, cooperation with businesses, solutions to existing problems and the introduction of research into production. Participants also considered the proposed Surkhandarya–Japan International Technical School. This was a direct exchange between the regional executive and the university’s scientific community on technology, skills and economic development. The documented output was the presentation and discussion of projects and proposals with the regional governor.
An earlier meeting on 16 April 2025 brought the governor to the university to review its activities and a presentation on employment for graduating students. Providing university information on graduate employment gives the regional executive a direct view of the relationship between higher education and labour-market needs. In this example, the university supplied a presentation to the responsible regional authority on a specific public-policy concern.
A separate connection between university expertise and public decision-making appears in Senate Council Resolution KQ-35-V of 14 January 2025. Its annex identifies Dilbar Suvonova, a TerSU teacher, among senators assigned to work with local councils and mahalla leadership on regional development and residents’ problems. The resolution establishes arrangements for oversight, local investigation and escalation of issues to the Senate. Her listed role is a public appointment held by a university academic. It complements the institution’s research-based advisory work by showing an identified member of its academic community participating in formal national and local governance arrangements.