Various Centres of Excellence (CoEs) at the university organised a one-day workshop to discuss possible collaboration for TRGS. TRGS is a new research grant scheme offered by the Ministry of Education (MOE) Malaysia. Each research program under this grant scheme comprises three different research projects from three research clusters. Essentially, the MOE has already identified eight research clusters namely: (i) Pure Science, (ii) Applied Science, (iii) Technology and Engineering, (iv) Clinical and Health Sciences, (v) Social Sciences, (vi) Arts and Applied Arts, (vii) National Sciences and National Heritage and (viii) Information and Communication Technology. Getting the CoEs to work collaboratively on TRGS was indeed a great idea. The researchers were able to discuss together on their proposed projects. At the end of the workshops, the CoEs submitted their "Letter of Intents" to the secretariate. The Accounting Research Institute (ARI) submitted letters of intent (LOIs) of two full TRGS programs and two sub-projects of programs with other CoE groups. Two ARI's full programs comprised researches related to "Detecting Trade Mispricing as Money Laundering Tools" and "The Governance of Cooperatives as Money Laundering Mitigating Mechanisms of Cooperatives".
