April Conference Begins as Scheduled
On April 7, 2020, the XXI April International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development, organized by HSE University together with the World Bank, commenced. This year, the conference will be held in a distributed format.
The April Conference is Russia’s biggest international academic forum in economics and the social sciences, where leading Russian and international experts present their research, and entrepreneurs and public officials participate in discussions.
Despite the pandemic, the HSE Academic Council did not to cancel the conference, but organized it in a distributed format instead, thereby providing participants the opportunity to present their papers remotely. This year, 725 participants from 55 countries were invited to present their research at the conference.
The distributed format means that some of the sessions, roundtable discussions, and associated events will be held online, while other participants will have an opportunity to supplement their previously published abstracts and presentations with extended abstracts and video presentations.
Lev Yakobson, Deputy Chair of the Conference Programme Committee, said that the conference has used the online format and video presentations before. ‘In some cases, our participants spoke at the conference while being thousands of miles away from Moscow. But previously, it was only particularly renowned international scholars who presented at the conference remotely if they were unable to attend. Now, all participants of the conference will be attending and participating remotely.’
‘I believe we came up with the right solution to the organizational challenge we faced this spring,’ Lev Yakobson said.
The programme of panel sessions as well as associated events is available on the conference page. Video presentations will be published on the conference’s official channel. Media representatives can contact Conference Press Centre for more information on speakers and their papers.
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