Winners of Spring Student Project Contest Announced

Following the project public defense held on May 15-17, 2017, the winners of the Student Project Contest have been decided.

And today we are ready to announce the names of the winning projects which have successfully passed through all the rounds of the student project contest - public voting on the HSE Family website, expert assessment, and public defense – and received the most points after all the contest rounds.

This year 82 entries were submitted to the competition, and 49 participants went through to the voting phase. The categories ‘Science and education’ and ‘Cultural projects’ turned out to be the most popular. HSE students, alumni and staff members took part in the voting. This year 28 participants were invited to defend their projects.

The following projects will receive support from HSE:

 

Project name	Final score (25% open voting,  25% expert voting, 50% public defense)	Final amount of financial support
Donor day at HSE	9,67	40 000
Film retrospective ‘New Moscow: the Reinvention of the city throughout the 20th century through the camera lens’	9,18	200 000
Tournament ‘Smart Crow’ - 2017	9,13	76 000
HSE open cup – National debate tournament	8,76	24 000
HSE Orchestra	8,51	150 000
Faces of HSE St. Petersburg	8,35	134 000
RUN, HSE, RUN	8,07	131 000
HSE Bilim	8,04	134 000
First student competition in paragliding FlyHSE	8,03	198 000
Culinary talk show ‘World Cuisines’	7,87	50 000
Vostok Festival	7,84	47 000
Small faculty of philology	7,81	53 000
HSE VR Hack	7,75	148 000
HSE festival of creativity ‘World drawn on the asphalt’	7,71	118 000

HSE Student Initiative Support Centre would like to congratulate the winners and thank all the participants for their initiative.

Please note that a new summer round of the student project contest 2017 will be held soon. If your project didn’t receive financial support in the spring round, you have the opportunity to modify it and to try again.

For more information about the applications please visit the webpage on Vkontakte.