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In 2018 the Department of Science and Technology of the Republic of South Africa commissioned a national Foresight study to the ISSEK Foresight Centre. Preliminary findings will be discussed at a workshop in Pretoria on October, 18–19. Ozcan Saritas, Leading Researcher at the Foresight Centre and Deputy Head of the Research Laboratory for Science and Technology Studies, will take part in this event.

In the next seven years, Russian farmers should reach export volumes twice as high as current figures. Opportunities and directions for the advanced development of regional exports of agricultural products were discussed by the participants in the panel discussion held on October 12 in the framework of the business programme of the ХХ Russian Agro-industrial exhibition 'Golden Autumn'. Alexander Chulok, director of the Centre for Science and Technology Foresight of ISSEK, acted as moderator of the event organised by the Ministry of Agriculture of Russia jointly with the ISSEK HSE.

Russian ministry of Education and Science Government grant ag. No 14.641.31.0003, Megagrant to Mikhail Lebedev.

Alexei Ossadtchi made presentation "Towards zero-latency neurofeedback" about the algorithms developing in our Center. Mikhail Lebedev gave a talk "Decoding, but what?" about the invasive neurointerfaces. Moreover, our research assistants Julia Nurislamova, Ignatii Dubishkin and Alexander Belyaev won prizes for best posters.

The CBI team won second place at the “Neurothlon” International Competition of Assistive Technologies. Valentina Bulgakova, Nikolay Smetanin and Ignat Dubyshkin represented our team in Samara. Ksenia Volkova, Julia Nurislamova and Anastasia Belinskaya participated as algorithm developers. Moreover, this victory was possible thanks to our pilots Artiom Vorobiov and Sergei Anashkov.

In 2018 the Department of Science and Technology of the Republic of South Africa commissioned a national Foresight study to the ISSEK Foresight Centre. Preliminary findings will be discussed at a workshop in Pretoria on October, 18–19. Ozcan Saritas, Leading Researcher at the Foresight Centre and Deputy Head of the Research Laboratory for Science and Technology Studies, will take part in this event.

Article "Testing the Efforts Model of Simultaneous Interpreting: An ERP Study" by Roman Koshkin, Yurii Shtyrov, Andrey Myachikov and Alexei Ossadtchi is accepted to the Q1 journal PLoS ONE with impact factor 2.8

HSE International Center for the Study of Institutions and Development (ICSID) and NES Center for the Study of Diversity and Social Interactions held another session of their joint Research Seminar on Diversity and Development on October 9, 2018. 

On October 9, Vitaliy Dolgorukov, the Deputy Head of the Laboratory, made a report “The Ontological Square and Type-Theoretic Semantics”

Megamrant № 14.0641.31.0003, leading researcher Mikhail Lebedev.

On 8-12 October, 2018  an international science and technology conference "Neuroinformatics-2018" was held in Moscow. Alexei Ossadtchi and Mikhail Lebedev took part in a round table discussion on the topic of "Neurointerface technology: on the path to combining with the elements of artificial intelligence" as well as gave talks about their research.