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In 2022, a HSE University department joined the ranks of UNESCO Futures Literacy Chairs. This builds on the work of the ISSEK International Research and Educational Foresight Centre, and the activity of the Human Capital Multidisciplinary Research Centre. Professor Alexander Sokolov, head of the new department, Director of the International Research and Educational Foresight Centre, and Deputy Director of HSE ISSEK, spoke about the establishment, aims and objectives of the UNESCO Chair on Future Studies.

Denis Ivanov, a Senior Research Fellow at ICSID, spoke at the annual Ariel Political Economy Conference at Ariel University (Israel). He presented the report “Public Reaction on Trade Sanctions in a Democratic Context: Evidence from Moldovan Wine Embargo”.

Olga Okulova, a junior researcher of the laboratory and a postgraduate student of the HSE University-St. Petersburg, held a pre-defense at the IDLab workshop

We are happy to invite you to our International Workshop on Cross-cultural Aspects of Bilingualism. The event will take place online on September 30th, 2022. The event is supported by the NCMU (Human Capital Multidisciplinary Research Center) consortium, and it is hosted by the HSE University.

Mariya Molodchik, Evgenia Shenkman, Iuliia Naidenova, and Dmitry Kirpishchikov took part in the 2nd International Conference on Econometrics and Business Analytics

Between August 23rd and 25th, the HSE Faculty of Computer Science held its annual summer school on machine learning in bioinformatics. After two years of being held online, the school returned to an offline format for this year. Over three days, more than 120 participants attended lectures and seminars by leading experts in the field from institutions such as HSE University, Skoltech, AIRI, MSU, MIPT, Genotek, and Sber Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.

Researchers of the HSE University and the Southern Federal University (SFedU) have tested a new method for studying the perception of facial emotional expressions. They suggest that asking subjects to recognise emotional expressions from dynamic video clips rather than static photographs can improve the accuracy of findings, eg in psychiatric and neurological studies. The paper is published in Applied Sciences.

Researchers of the International Laboratory of Microphysiological Systems of the Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology (HSE University), in collaboration with the Laboratory of Molecular Physiology of the Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology (HSE University), as well as German colleagues from the Institute of Anatomy and Experimental Morphology (Hamburg) and the Institute of Pathology (Göttingen), found an association between low expression of the CD24 protein in patients with colorectal cancer and a decrease in patient survival rate.

For the first time since the begining of the COVID-19 pandemic, our colleagues went to the international offline conference, European Conference on Educational Research (ECER) 2022, which took place in Yerevan, Armenia this year. ECER conferences are held annually, attracting researchers from more than 70 countries, and are organized by the European Educational Research Association. We asked our colleagues to share their impressions of the conference and talk about the research they presented.

Marina Zavertyaeva presented the results of the study "Uncertainty of economic policy and investments of Russian companies: the role of social capital of the board of directors"