HSE University Life

The Fifth Russia-ASEAN Youth Summit took place in Manila, the Philippines, from November 26th – 30th, 2019. The President of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, met with the participants of this international event, which was organized by the National Youth Committee with the support of the MGIMO ASEAN Centre. Vladislav Belovitsky, first-year student of Software Engineering at the HSE Faculty of Computer Science, attended the event as part of the Russian delegation, through winning an English-language essay competition.

On March 20, a conference of HSE staff and students will take place at HSE. It will consider the university’s development programme and elect the new Academic Council. The previous conference took place five years ago, in 2014, and the university has changed a lot since then. HSE News Service talked to some of the university leaders about what has changed in their area of responsibility over this period.

On September 10 - 15 Nada Matta, Professor at University of Technologies of Troyes (France), visited HSE Perm at the invitation of the ‘Business Informatics’ educational programme. She shared her impressions of the Perm campus and spoke about the prospects for cooperation between the universities in the near future.

Dmitry Bosnak, Lecturer at the Faculty of Humanities at HSE Nizhny Novgorod, recently spoke at TEDxYouth@KulibinPark. For many students, such events are a great opportunity to improve their English.

The Global Youth Leadership Development Program provides a unique platform for global youth to gain a nuanced understanding of global affairs. The ultimate aim of the programme is to expose a diverse group of participants from around the world to the idea of leadership, which my fellow participants and I feel was successfully achieved during the pilot programme that was launched in India in March 2017 to meet the specific needs of the Global Youth Leaders.

On March 9th-10th,  2017, the 10th annual conference ‘CleanEquity Monaco 2017’ was held in the Principality of Monaco. CleanEquity Monaco 2017 is a global forum for innovations in cleantech and environmental technologies, organized by the British consulting company Innovator Capital. The annual conference brings together about thirty of the world's best developers of future technologies.

HSE and Chung-Ang University (Republic of Korea) have signed an agreement on student exchange. As part of of the agreement, three students from the HSE School of Logistics will study in Seoul per semester.

On November 18th, 2016, HSE lecturers and students took part in the third Korean-Russian humanities forum ‘Friendship Bridge’, organized by the Korea Foundation and the Institute of Russian Studies at the Hankuk University of Foreign Studies.

From October 7 - November 12, 2016 a school for undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students organized by the International Centre for the History and Sociology of World War II and Its Consequences was held in Germany. The school was dedicated to issues of memorialization and commemorating victims of terror and was led by the Centre’s Director Oleg Budnitskii. The trip was organized with the support of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation.

On November 17, 2016 the 48th Annual Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian studies(ASEEES) took place in Washington, DC (USA), bringing together over 2,500 researchers from around the world.

On November 4th, 2016, students from many countries took part in an online broadcast to discuss the final stage of the US presidential campaign 2016. The event was organized by the Global Campus Network at Ryerson University, Toronto. Two students from HSE's Faculty of Communications, Media, and Design delivered their report from the HSE Media Centre.

Staff members from the HSE Faculty of Social Sciences have made over 50 trips to international conferences in the past year. Alexander Kalgin, Lecturer at the School of Public Administration, shared his impressions about the International Symposium on Development and Governance in BRICS countries in Shanghai, and a visit to Guangdong University of Foreign Studies in Guangzhou to discuss a joint research project and to meet with representatives of the university administration responsible for international education cooperation.