HSE University Life

On the last week of September, two student projects, HSE App and #poboltaem? conversational club, raised 100% of HSEcoins they requested and can go forward to implement their ideas. Another four projects approached the ‘safety net’ limit of 70%, which guarantees financial support.

On October 9-11 ‘Open Your Eyes’, an HSE charity project, will be collecting items for 250 elderly people at a nursing home in Klin.

Each year HSE holds the Student Project Contest, which allows projects deemed important for the development of the university at least and all of society at most to receive financial, organisational, or any other type of support to help them succeed.

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.

Originally from Greece, Pános Kompatsiáris was attracted to join the Higher School of Economics because of the university’s reputation for exceptional working conditions and fostering career development. Having spent the last ten years in a variety of cities, including Edinburgh and Berlin, Professor Kompatsiáris brings his background in economics, cultural studies and art theory to his current position as Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Communications, Media, and Design at HSE.

On September 22, 2018 the 'Clover' Green Festival was held at HSE Media Yard. HSE students and guests of the event brought clothes and batteries for recycling, exchanged books, drew their own prints on ecobags and took part in the ecoquest.

All students now have the opportunity to create their projects on the new HSE crowdfunding platform. HSEcoins, credited to all students on HSE Day, can be transferred to these projects.

On September 10-13, 2018 Professor Hein Roelfsema (Utrecht University, the Netherlands) visited the Faculty of Management at HSE – Nizhny Novgorod as part of the visiting scholar programme.

HSE Publishing House is now accepting applications from HSE staff for the publication of copyright books on a competitive basis.

Fourth year Bachelor’s students and first or second year Master’s students are invited to take part in CFA Institute Research Challenge, an annual international competition in financial analysis held by CFA Institute among student teams.

The Hiking Division of HSE Extreme Sports Club is glad to announce the most long-awaited event this Autumn - the 30^th anniversary tourist camp for students and their friends.

A team made up of master’s students from the 'Law in International Trade, Finance and Economic Integration' programme has made it into the top ten teams at the international round of the ELSA Moot Court Competition in WTO Law, held in Geneva, Switzerland, from June 19th-24th, 2018.