Moscow and Shanghai Have Much in Common
A delegation from the Strategic Consultation Committee of the Shanghai Government visited the Higher School of Economics and met with HSE experts on urban development on July 19th.
‘We Continue Hoping for Reasonable Changes in Russia’
On July 15th students from the HSE and the University of Lucerne met with Stefan Estermann, Deputy Ambassador of Switzerland in Russia. The meeting took place at the HSE as part of the Russian-Swiss Summer School.
‘We Need to Overcome the Cultural Barrier’
On May 24th –26th the Samuel P. Huntington Memorial Symposium on Culture, Cultural Change and Economic Development took place at the HSE. It was organized by the Cultural Change Institute (the Fletcher School, Tufts University, USA) and the Higher School of Economics. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev met with the Symposium participants.
Common Values
On March 1st a roundtable discussion entitled ‘Germany, Russia and Europe:Chances for the Growing Integration’took place at the HSE. The event was organized on the initiative of the ‘Liberal Mission’Foundation with the support of Friedrich Naumann Foundation. Werner Hoyer, Minister of State at the Foreign Office of Germany spoke at the meeting.
Political Leadership
On February 17th Lord George Robertson gave a lecture entitled ‘Political Leadership:the Way to Success'at the HSE. You can watch a video of the event here.
Forum in Paris
On January 25th the French-Russian Student Forum took place in Paris, as part of the ‘Russia-France Year 2010’. Representatives of the Higher School of Economics took part in the event.
Bronze for the HSE Team
A student team from the HSE Faculty of Management (Master’s programme in ‘Marketing Communications and Advertising in Modern Business’) has won third prize in the Worldwide Global Academic Challenge .
HSE Team Wins!
On October 30th as part of the elimination round of the Global Management Challenge competition, the Business Administration Cup for Engineering Students and Competition in Company Management for corporate managers took place.
Potential Demand
The HSE Publishing House took part in the Frankfurt Book Fair which ran from October 13th to 18th this year.
Global Relations
On October 19th a meeting of the HSE International College of Economics and Finance with the British Ambassador in Russia, Anne Pringle, took place at the HSE. The Ambassador gave a lecture on ‘The Global Economy and An Overview of British-Russian Relations ’.