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The WCRC working group on workplace inclusion and diversity management organized its own panel at the 10^th World Congress of the International Council of Central and East European Studies.

Heike Hennig-Schmidt and Gari Walkowitz gave a presentation at specialized conferences in Germany

A unique awake brain surgery has been carried out in Nizhny Novgorod with the participation of staff of the Centre for Language and Brain Studies. For the first time, neurolinguists in Nizhny Novgorod assisted in the removal of a brain tumour with mapping of a bilingual patient who is a native speaker of Tatar and Russian. The participants—Natalia Gronskaya, Director of the Centre for Language and Brain Studies, Alina Minnigulova, research assistant, and Lilia Mavlekhanova, invited expert and native speaker of Tatar—spoke about the specifics of the operation.

Maria Poptsova spoke in an interview with «Kommersant Nauka» about the work of the «Genetics of cardiovascular diseases» consortium, which aims to create a comprehensive centralized catalog of genomic mutations in the Russian population.

Emilia Karpinskaya and Polina Artamoshina presented the research carried out within the framework of the project "From Start-Up to Global Innovative Company: Development of Sources of Competitive Advantage in Russian Enterpreneurial Firms"

On 20-21 october 2021 the VI International scientific and practical conference 'Inclusive Education and Society: Strategies, Practices and Resources' will take place. With more than 4800 participants registered to the conference for the first time it will be held in the mixed format: both online and offline. 

On October 15, 2021, the International Laboratory for Population and Health of the Higher School of Economics (NRU HSE), together with colleagues from the Northern State Medical University (NSMU) and the  Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH), held a seminar "Using eHealth data for informed decision-making and increased quality of health care in Russia”.

Seminar October 12-13th 2021, Moscow, Russia
With this 2-day seminar, brought together scholars in the field of ageing and frailty for knowledge sharing and networking. Building on the International project on cardiovascular disease in Russia (IPCDR) and the Know Your Heart (KYH) study, we have initiated a project focusing on early ageing in Russia and Norway. The project is lead by Senior Scientist Bjørn Heine Strand at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH), and the project team consists of Dr. Alexander Kudryavtsev, Northern State Medical University (NSMU), coordinator of Heart to Heart collaboration Dr. Laila Hopstock (UiT The Arctic University of Norway), and principal investigator of IPCDR Prof. David Leon, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) / National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE University). The seminar combined of an online and a physical meeting. It is kindly hosted by the HSE University in Moscow with the assistance of Dr. Vladimir Shkolnikov, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) and HSE University.  The seminar was held in a mixed format.

On October 19-20, 2021, a conference dedicated to the 800th anniversary of the city and the 25th anniversary of the Nizhny Novgorod Branch of the HSE was held in Nizhny Novgorod.

Volume of R&D funding and number of Scopus-indexed publications of the BRICS countries in total already exceed those of the EU-total and the United States. These metrics have opportunity for further growth if the five developing countries strengthen scientific cooperation with other countries from Global South that have significant growth potential. Researchers from the Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge Alexander Sokolov, Sergey Shashnov, and Maxim Kotsemir analysed the opportunities for research collaboration within these clusters of countries along with the obstacles standing in the way of greater cooperation.