The HSE Inter Football Cup—mini-football championship, which has already become a tradition, was held on the open lawn of the Energia Stadium on May 19, 2024. This year, a team of international students from the St. Petersburg campus also joined the fight for the Сup.More than 100 international students from various countries came together for a day of spirited competition and cultural exchange.

HSE University hosted an international mini-conference titled 'Search for new ways to develop Russian-Italian cooperation in the field of Biomedicine,' attended by scientists from both countries and HSE Rector Nikita Anisimov.

Tajrin Rahman Tisha, from Bangladesh, is completing her Preparatory Year Programme. She is a graduate of the Bangladesh University of Professionals and in September 2024, she will pursue her master's studies in Politics, Economics, Philosophy at HSE University. Tajrin Rahman Tisha shares her experience of living in Moscow, the activities of the HSE Bangladesh Club, and the challenges she faces while studying Russian language.

HSE ART GALLERY is launching a new exhibition area. This second gallery will be in Winzavod, one of the largest centres for contemporary art in Russia. The art space on Paveletskaya will become a place for implementing commercial projects and housing exhibitions by HSE Art and Design students and graduates.

HSE University has improved its position in the recently published Times Higher Education (THE) Young University Ranking, rising from 98^th to 87^th place. This is the best position among Russian universities. Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, holds first place.

The Russian Technical Committee for the Standardization of ‘Artificial intelligence’ (TC164), together with the Chamber for Indo Russo Technology Collaboration and the RUSSOFT Non-profit Partnership of Software Developers, has published new White Papers related to Artificial Intelligence Conformity Assessment.

The HSE Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence for Cognitive Sciences (AICS) has launched regular seminars, offering students and scientists from various universities and research centres the opportunity to share their latest research and discuss the most recent developments in artificial intelligence in a friendly and constructive atmosphere. The first seminar was held on May 15.

In mid-April 2024 representatives of several leading universities in China visited HSE University in Moscow. A delegation from Dalian University of Foreign Languages came to sign a cooperation and exchange agreement, while representatives of Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University discussed expanding potential areas of interaction within the existing agreement.

An international team of researchers, including neuroscientists at HSE University, has developed a computational model for simulating semantic dementia. The results indicate that initially, the patient's brain forgets the meanings of object-related words, followed by action-related words. Additionally, the degradation of white matter tends to produce more severe language impairments than the decay of grey matter.