First held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in 2014, the QS Summer School Summit has quickly established a niche for itself as the premier knowledge sharing and networking event for professionals involved inthe burgeoning summer school and short-term student mobility sector.
Education
On August 20, the third Summer University at HSE drew to a close. More than 100 foreign participants spent several weeks in Moscow, as well as one week each on the St. Petersburg and Nizhny Novgorod campuses. Some of them have decided to extend their stay at HSE for a while longer.
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Since 2013, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) has cooperated with HSE. This year, a record number of scholarship places will be available for German students to study in HSE short-term programmes through the Go East initiative.
Head of HSE Department for Educational Innovations and Short International Programs Oksana Chernenko was invited to the 2nd QS Summer School Summit as the speaker at one of the five sessions, which was devoted to ensuring harmony between academic, institutional and commercial goals and HSE Summer University was a representative case of these three goals’ effective unity.
On August 15, the second HSE Summer University drew to a close. The number of participants in this year's programmer nearly tripled with 103 students coming from 15 countries. This included both independent students as well at five organized groups from Seoul National University, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Miami University, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), and Guangdong University of Foreign Studies.
From July 27 to August 1, fifteen international students from the USA, China, Germany, Switzerland and Norway visited HSE – St.Petersburg as part of HSE Summer University programme.