HSE University Life

On October 4, a lecture and business game were organized by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) and held at HSE Saint Petersburg.

On September 26th, 2016,  the 2nd International Student Conference ‘Russia and Egypt: Joint Future’ was held at HSE. The event was organized by the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs with the support of the Egyptian Ministry of Sports and Youth Affairs and the Egyptian Youth National Organization. Students and doctoral students from Cairo University and several Russian universities took part in the event.

During the conference, the Russian chapter of the System Dynamics Society held a meeting and unveiled an e-poster outlining its major activities, research events, and education projects. The poster was made by Natalya Lychkina, Associate Professor at the Department of Information Systems and Technologies in Logistics and Head of the Russian chapter of the System Dynamics Society.

A meeting as part of the cultural exchange between HSE’s Humanities Faculty, the RAS Institute of Philosophy and the Amalfi Center of History and Culture took place on September 2-3.

In July, an international conference ‘Active Communities, Social-Economy Challenges and Local Knowledge’ and a summer school on ‘Sustaining Mutuality in Times of Crisis: Building Knowledge Alliances in Communities’ were held on Paros, Greece. Graduates of the master’s programme ‘Sociology of Public Sphere and Social Communications’ led by Nikita Pokrovsky, Professor at the School of Sociology, took part in these events.

HSE Philosophy School Professor Tatiana Sidorina gave a presentation at the International Association of Sociologists’ third forum ‘The Futures We Want: Global Sociology and the Struggles for a Better World’ in Vienna.

The agreement on student exchange between HSE and the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM) includes semester-long exchange trips for students of the HSE Faculty of Business and Management, the Faculty of Economic Sciences, and the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs.

From April 15 th  -17 th , 2016, a symposium entitled ‘Growing a Person-Centered Society in Europe’ took place in Lausanne. It was organized by the Network of European Associations for Person-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapy and Counselling (PCE Europe). Veniamin Kolpachnikov, Associate Professor at the Department of Psychology of Personality, who participated in the symposium, shared some details about the event.

Ilya Prakhov, Research Fellow at the Center for Institutional Studies has taken part in the 4th International Conference on Academic Profession in Knowledge Society, held at Seoul National University.

On April 6th-9 th , the IEEE Latin American Test Symposium was held under the auspices of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in the city of Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil.

The Director of the HSE Centre for Source Studies presented his research on the role of ‘administrative entrepreneurs’ in the development of early education and other state institutions in Russia under Peter the Great.

From April 1 – 2, 2016 a delegation from the Russian Ministry of Education and Science, headed by Deputy Minister Liudmila Ogorodova, visited Athens.