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From 11–18 April, Anna Korchak, a Junior Research Fellow at the International Laboratory for Research and Design in e-learning and a Doctoral Student at the IOE, completed a research internship at East China Normal University (ECNU) in Shanghai. The visit focused on the role of generative AI in collaborative academic writing.

In Moscow, HSE University’s leadership met with a delegation from Peking University headed by its President, Gong Qihuang. During the meeting, the parties agreed to strengthen partnership between the two universities within the framework of the Cross Years of Russian–Chinese Cooperation in Education (2026–2027).

Can a Formula 1 race become a testing ground for digital forecasting, and how can climate intelligence help companies adapt to shocks? The second session of International Symposium “Foresight in a Rapidly Changing World” within XXVI April International Academic Conference named after Evgeny Yasin focused on finding answers to these questions. The discussion, which brought together experts from Russia, Canada, France, and Brazil, was moderated by Yulia Milshina, Deputy Director of the ISSEK Foresight Center (HSE University).

On April 30, 2026, the International Center for Analysis and Decision-Making hosted a meeting between the Chief Researcher, Professor Eric Maskin, and the young staff of the Center.

On April 29, Elena Dragalina-Chernaya delivered a talk titled "Classifying Structures: Abstract Logics as Classifications of Abstract Structures" at the Interdisciplinary Seminar "Philosophy, Mathematics, Linguistics: Aspects of Interaction (PhML)" at the St. Petersburg Department of the Steklov Mathematical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (PDMI).

Sergei Utkin, research assistant at ICSID, spoke at MPSA Conference 2026.

From April 20 to 24, 2025, the International Laboratory of Stochastic Analysis and its Applications, within the framework of the project "New Directions in Applied Stochastic Analysis", held the scientific conference "LSA-spring meeting 2026", dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the laboratory's scientific supervisor, Associate Professor of the National Research University Higher School of Economics Valentin Konakov.

A press release has been released on the HSE website (https://www.hse.ru/news/science/1152167635.html) based on an article about the unique properties of miR-93-5p microRNA (published in the journal PeerJ https://peerj.com/articles/20642/). HSE researchers have discovered an atypical behavior of oncogenic miR-93-5p microRNA in prostate cancer. It turned out that its various isoforms do not change the spectrum of target genes, but rather enhance each other's effects.

On April 24, 2026, a seminar of the International Laboratory of Digital Transformation in Public Administration was held on the topic "Brazil's Digital Landscape and its Intersection with Russia"