HSE University Life

HSE Open 2015, an international tournament, was held by the HSE Debating Society in March. Participants included a number of highly experienced Russian debaters as well as a large number of international teams from Turkey, the U.S., the Netherlands and Germany.

HSE Buddies Network is making sure foreign students get plenty of cultural experience while in Russia. This spring they organised a trip to Kazan and introduced foreign students to Russian Orthodox Easter traditions.

Perm hosted the Russian Championship for formation dance, a special type of team competition in which several pairs of dancers synchronously perform a number that typically consists of a series of Latin American dances. The Duet Ensemble, which is made up of three female students from HSE Perm, was the winner.

The School of Asian Studies under the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs is holding a competition for all those who take part in the elective Calligraphy classes (led by Arthur Fanyan, Lecturer at the Asian Studies School’s Department of Oriental Philology.

HSE tourist club invites international students, lecturers and researchers to participate in a trekking trip to Russian South (Western Caucasus, near Sochi). The trip will last 12 days, from April 30 to May 12.

On March 9-15th HSE Extreme Sports Club is organizing the fourth ski and snowboarding trip  to Elbrus and Cheget for HSE students, graduates and staff, and friends. Registration is open until March 7th, 2015.

Late last year, HSE’s Extreme Sports student club organized a trip for HSE students, instructors, staff, and their friends to an equestrian centre located 150 kilometres away from Nizhny Novgorod, and at the end of winter the club has extended an invitation to one of Georgia’s best ski resorts – Gudauri.

Some of us prefer to decorate a traditional natural or artificial New Year tree. The others suppose that a New Year tree is a perfect object for experiments. We gathered a collection of most original trees in HSE. The collection will be enlarged.

The HSE Student Support Unit organized a trip to Etnomir ethnographic park, where our international students immersed themselves in the atmosphere of old Russian life, played traditional games, and even baked rye bread in a workshop.

Anastasia Kulbeda, a second-year student in HSE’s Faculty of Management, paired with Dmitry Pleshkov at the 2014 World DanceSport Championship to take home the silver medal in the freestyle division. Freestyle is a 3-4 minute dance number performed by a pair of dancers. The dance has a certain idea behind it and consists of several types of dances. The championship took place in Chengdu, China.

The Higher School of Economics is becoming more and more internationalized. It is for this reason that HSE Day, which took place at Gorky Park, reached an international level as well. Among the numerous activities at the event were ones that featured English as their main form of communication. Thanks to this, international students, foreign instructors, and all guests of the celebration who wanted to speak English were able to feel they could take full participation in the events.

The 22nd HSE Open Tourist Rally will take place on September 20-21, 2014. The rally has been organized by HSE Extreme Sports club, and is open to all HSE students, as well as alumni and faculty. HSE students from Saint Petersburg and Nizhny Novgorod often come to Moscow to take part in the event. This time the rally will feature an additional quest element and lots of fun competitions as well as live music.