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‘Future Ministers’ Discuss Energy Efficiency

On May 12, 2014, a Youth Day took place in Seoul, South Korea as part of the Fifth Clean Energy Ministerial. Anastasia Edelkina, Research Fellow of the ISSEK Foresight Centre, represented Russia at the meeting of young scientists from 16 countries.

Russian Lawyers Need to Lobby More

The younger a lawyer is the more cynical his attitude towards his profession. In legal circles a readiness to sacrifice ethical and moral standards for financial gain is not uncommon. A report by the HSE Institute for Industrial and Market Studies (IIMS) suggests that change requires active engagement from lawyers’ associations and regular research investigations of the legal community

Acculturation: Past, Present and Future

On April 29, Professor John Berry (Queens University, Canada and Higher School of Economics, Russia) took part in the «Culture matters» seminar.

Innovation in BRICS countries

A few popular facts about BRICS countries’ resource potential: they account for about 1/4 of the global landmass, 1/4 of the global GDP, and more than 40% of the world’s population. Studying and forecasting development of this international association created in 2006 was important right from the beginning. For 8 years ISSEK has been participating in the international project on studying specific features of BRICS countries’ national innovation systems (NIS). This spring the participants discussed the objectives for its new stage.

On Monday, April 28 a Meeting and a Scientific Seminar of the International Laboratory of Decision Choice and Analysis was held

Speaker: Dennis Mueller (University of Vienna, Austria)
Topic: Rights, Religion, Riviera, and Roma

Panos M. Pardalos will give a talk at the 53d Meeting of the EWGCFM and 2nd International Conference of the RCEM

Panos M. Pardalos will give a talk at the 53d Meeting of the EWGCFM and 2nd International Conference of the RCEM (22-24 of May in Chania, Crete)

Panos M. Pardalos will give a talk at The Second International Conference on Information Technology and Quantitative Management (ITQM 2014)

Panos M. Pardalos will give a talk at The Second International Conference on Information Technology and Quantitative Management (ITQM 2014) (NRU HSE, Moscow)

Panos M. Pardalos will give a talk at the 3rd International Symposium and 25th National Conference on Operational Research (Volos, Greece)

Panos M. Pardalos will give a talk at the 3rd International Symposium and 25th National Conference on Operational Research (Volos, Greece)

Instruments of Russia-EU Science and Technology Cooperation

Published by HSE International Organisations Research Journal has issued an article where policy instruments of cooperation between Russia and the European Union in the field of science were analysed by the leading experts of ISSEK Centre of International Projects Anna Pikalova and Elena Nasybulina in collaboration with Anna Gutnikova, Director of HSE Institute of Legal Regulation.

On Wednesday, April 23 the all-Russian seminar "Mathematical methods of decision analysis in economics, finance and politics" was held.

Speaker: Dennis Mueller (University of Vienna, Austria)
Title: "Democracy and Citizenship"