Centre for Youth Studies in Glasgow
The Centre for Youth Studies’ long-term and productive cooperation with the University of Glasgow and the Centre for East European and Russian Studies is still underway. At an annual research forum the university hosted in Glasgow, six researchers from HSE’s Centre for Youth Studies presented papers at a separate panel devoted exclusively to the Centre’s work.
ICSID Conference — an Annual Academic Highlight for Russian Political Economists
On 29th June — 1st July the International Centre for the Study of Institutions and Development (ICSID) at HSE Moscow will hold its fourth annual conference. The theme this year is Institutions, Elites and Collective Action in the Developing World. Michael Rochlitz, Assistant Professor at the School of Political Science at the HSE Faculty of Social Sciences is among the impressive line-up of international specialists in the field who will be speaking at the conference. The HSE English News Service asked him about the focus of the 2015 conference, what new things it has in store and why he thinks it is definitely something to get excited about.
2.5 times
is the minimum degree by which per capita gross regional product (GRP) should increase by 2020 compared with 2012 in the Murmansk, Belgorod and Sverdlovsk regions as well as in the Chuvash Republic. This is the largest increase among the Russian regions.
5%
of industrial managers view the current economic situation at their enterprises as ‘favourable’.
HSE Students Develop Instant Messenger for Portable Devices
Students of the Higher School of Economics have developed an app called Chill that allows users to talk to their friends on their portable devices (the Apple Watch and Android Wear) without using text or voice. The application went on the market June 9th and was instantly added to Product Hunt, the world’s largest platform for startups.
52.6%
of Russian lawyers handle more than 25% of cases using a special procedure, i.e., choosing the tactic of cooperating with the prosecution.
Morgan Poulizac: ‘Sustainability 2.0 – The Story of How Cities Now Adapt to the Modern Age’
On June 9, the head of the Urban Planning master’s programme at Paris’ Sciences Po, Morgan Poulizac, gave the lecture ‘Social Innovations as an Urban Development Tool: Examples of French Cities’ as part of the Adaptive City seminar series organised by the Graduate School of Urban Studies and Planning.
1%
of unemployed people who found new work in 2014 did so with the help of a state employment agency.
HSE Develops Mobile App Based on Tolstoy’s War and Peace
HSE’s School of Linguistics, along with Samsung and the Leo Tolstoy State Museum, has developed a mobile application called ‘Living Pages,’ which offers users a new way of reading Leo Tolstoy’s novel War and Peace. The programme’s launch coincides with the Russia’s Year of Literature.
Sociology on the Internet
On 8th — 11th June the International Conference on Computational Social Science, organised by the University of Aalto took place in Helsinki, attended by many of the leading lights in this new area of academic research where the meeting between sociology and computer science has the potential to design better societies.