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The Moscow Innovative and Production Cluster which can potentially comprise all advanced industries in the city is moving on ever closer to practical implementation. Its structure, boundaries, management system, and the balance of federal support tools and those the city is willing to provide were discussed at the strategic session hosted jointly by the Moscow City Department of Science, Industrial Policy, and Entrepreneurship, and HSE.

Yulia Milshina, Leading Expert at the HSE ISSEK Foresight Centre, made a presentation at the III BRICS Young Scientists Forum in South Africa (24–29 June) on managing water resources in the situation of climate change. The IQ.HSE portal publishes the main points of her report.

From 3 August to 10 August, Professor A. Veretennikov (University of Leeds, UK) and the Leading Research Fellow of the laboratory of Stochastic Analysis and it's application delivered a mini-course on the following topics:

On August first, a seminar was conducted at the Center for Bioelectric Interfaces. Current and ongoing research was presented by the members of the center.

The HSE Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge has carried out an analysis of ranking of countries by publication activity in the social sciences.

In July, the eighth conference of series International Conference on Advanced Communications and Computation (INFOCOMP) was held. The laboratory fellow Vsevolod Nikolskiy made there a report.

Heike Hennig-Schmidt was invited to give a talk on 5TH GLOBAL CONFERENCE ON ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY in the Session "Perceptions, Prejudices and Partitions: Conceptual and Methodological Implications of Corporate Isolation and Exclusion" at the Global Conference on Economic Geography, Cologne, July 24-28, 2018.

October, 29-30 the Cortical Codes: Control & Perception (CCCP) conference will be held in HSE, Moscow.

On July 25, a four-day strategic session 'Strategic Priorities and New Opportunities for the Development of Innovative Clusters' was opened in Moscow. The event was organised by the Ministry of Economic Development, RVC JSC jointly with the Higher School of Economics. Representatives of government offices, leading universities, scientific organisations and enterprises involved in the activities of the clusters discussed new challenges and directions of development in the format of strategic sessions. A cross-cutting theme, the digitalisation, was examined in light of the federal priorities, best regional practices and common problems.

Congratulations to Kozhina Anna on the defence of her candidate dissertation at Laboratory of Stochastic Analysis and its Applications, HSE, and also on the defence of her thesis at University of Heidelberg (Germany), earning her the title of PhD.