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On May 20, Days of the International Academy of Education kicked off at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow. Experts from all over the world who focus on global education policy trends will meet up across a number of HSE venues to engage in vibrant, multi-format networking, including lectures, workshops, Q&A sessions, etc. They will share their experience with Russian researchers, instructors and policymakers over the course of three days.

The Head of the Laboratory Alexis Belianin and the Senior Research Fellow of the Laboratory Heike Hennig-Schmidt paid a research visit to the Humboldt University of Berlin and to IZA - Institute of Labor Economics in Bonn.

On 10–12 April, 2019 in the scope of the XX April International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development at HSE, the Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge hosted the symposium 'Foresight and Science, Technology and Innovation Policy', and a number of other events. Members of the institute delivered several plenary reports on transformation of the economy and public administration due to digitisation, S&T cooperation in the EAEU, challenges for the regulation sphere in a situation of radical technological changes, and various other topics.This page presents the main results of the symposium: full texts of plenary reports, videos and reviews of key discussions, materials on specific presentations, and photos of participants.

On 15 May, "Constructive Knowledge - 9: neural networks as a black box" Workshop was held in Institute of PhilosophyRussian Academy of Sciences.

Head of the laboratory Maria Poptsova - participant of Data Fest 2019

On Wednesday, May 15 the all-Russian seminar "Mathematical methods of decision analysis in economics, finance and politics" was held. B. Mirkin gave a lecture on B. Mirkin on "Generalization in taxonomies: model, method, applications".

CBI Director Prof. Alex Ossadtchi has made a presentation at MEG Nord 2019 to have taken place May 8-10, in Jyväskylä, Finland.

Two members of the Center for Language and Brain, Svetlana Malyutina and Elena Savinova, participated at the 5th international conference "Aging and Cognition", which was aimed at stimulating research in the domain of cognitive aging.

Jonathan Linton, Head of the Laboratory for Research in Science and Technology at the Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge at the Higher School of Economics, discusses the qualities managers and innovators need in today’s world in an interview with a Foresight and STI Governance journal. Interview in abbreviated form published on the HSE portal. Read the full version with Professor Linton on the journal’s site.

Member of the Center for Language and Brain Vardan Arutiunian participated at the annual congress which was organised by the International Society for Autism Research.