HSE University Life

The Vice-Consul of France in Russia, Jean-Pierre Guillerme, was appointed to his position two months ago. This was Jean-Pierre Guillerme’s first time visiting Nizhny Novgorod with his new title. The main purpose of the visit to HSE’s Nizhny Novgorod campus was to meet with Gennady Ryabov, who is the Honorary Consul of the French Republic in Nizhny Novgorod and Advisor to the Director of HSE Nizhny Novgorod.

On November 20-23, the National Communication Association (NCA) organized its 100^th conference in Chicago. Sergey Zverev, Oleg Kashirskikh, and Nelli Bachurina, all instructors in HSE’s School of Integrated Communications, presented papers at the conference and took part in a panel discussion as well.

Fourth-year students of the Economics  track have finished the Business Valuation lecture cycle carried out by University of Vigo (Spain) Professor Angel Barajas, who is the academic supervisory of the International Laboratory of Intangible-driven Economy.

Perm HSE continues to implement a joint MA programme with the University of Essex (UK) Business Strategies in a Global Environment.There are currently two Perm HSE students enrolled in the course – Marina Plyusnina and Yury Gritsiuk.

HSE Nizhny Novgorod has become something of a hub linking businesspeople from France and representatives of leading economic sectors in the region. Students with the French Presidential Programme had a chance to meet HSE graduates who now lead or are specialists in companies in Nizhny Novgorod.

This year’s best ICEF students participated in a summer school course at the London School of Economics (LSE). Each year, ICEF students with the highest grades are given the opportunity to study on an ICEF scholarship at the London School of Economics and Political Science’s Summer School. Students Dmitry Kazantsev, Pavel Taranin, Vasily Bogdan and Ruslan Durdyyev give us their impressions of the course.

From July 7−18, 2014, a seminar called ‘Russia and Global Food Security’ took place as part of the HSE Summer University.