This new publication will be distributed worldwide among academic and professional institutions and will be instrumental in providing researchers, scholars, students and professionals’ access to the latest knowledge related to information science and technology.
In what is shaping up as an academic Battle of the Titans — one that offers vast new learning opportunities for students around the world — Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Wednesday announced a new nonprofit partnership, known as edX, to offer free online courses from both universities.
The new special issue on the Theory of Human Values edited by Eldad Davidov, Peter Schmidt and Shalom Schwartz is now available in the online journal “Survey Research methods” for free.
The Russian President, Dmitry Medvedev, has awarded honours to some researchers from the Higher School of Economics for their work on the Strategy 2020 expert groups, including organization of the groups, the preparation of suggestions on topical issues for Russian socio-economic strategy up to 2020 and their personal input into the expert and analytical work
The spring cycle of professional development courses organized by the International Laboratory for socio-cultural research completed. A course of lectures "Intercultural and Acculturation Psychology" read by John Berry, the author of the theory of acculturation, professor emeritus at Queen's University, Canada, continued from April 16 to 20. A series of seminars "The Psychology of Economics” led by researchers of the department of social psychology of Tilburg University, the Netherlands, Marcel Zeelenberg and Seger Breugelmans, continued from April 23 to 26.
The seminar on theme “INPRES project: The adaptation of immigrants from Russia to Finland” was held on 26 April in the ILSCR. The lecturers were Inga Jasinskaja-Lahti, associate professor in Social Psychology, and Tuuli Anna Mähönen, substitute university lecturer in Social Psychology (the department of Social Research, University of Helsinki).
On April 26, 2012 the Higher School of Economics (HSE) hosted an international workshop titled "Exchange of experience and fostering networking with information service providers in the sphere of science, technology and innovation". Participants discussed the methods and tools of information and dissemination support for S&T activities, as well as existing and potential areas of cooperation btween Russia and the European Union.
The weekly workshop of the LCSR has started on April 23, 2012 in Saint-Petersburg. The event is attended by participants not only from different Russian cities, but also from Belarus, Ukraine, United States, Germany and Italy.
The video broadcast of the Moscow Scientific Seminar "Mathematical Methods for Analysis in economics, business and politics " will be held at the National Research University - Higher School of Economics (www.hse.ru) (Rodionova Street, room №401) on 24 April at 4.30 p.m. The leaders of the seminar: Professor Fuad T. Aleskerov,Professor Vladislav V. Podinovskiy,Professor Boris G. MirkinThe lecturer: Igor Mandel (Informational service TELMAR) The theme:" Modeling in Marketing: unsolved problems".The language: Russian
