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On July 10–11, 2025, Moscow hosted the 10th Hope for Technology National Forum of the Rehabilitation Industry and Universal Design. The event was aimed at discussing innovative achievements in the rehabilitation industry. The MIEM Student Design Bureau and the HSE Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience presented a smart orthosis, which was developed at the request of orthopedists.

In early July, two conferences were held in which leading research fellow of the ILSIR Nikita Bolshakov took part: the 13th Conference of the European Association of Disability Researchers, dedicated this year to social transformations (13th ALTER Conference: Transformations, July 8-10, Innsbruck, Austria) and the 10th International Conference on Ethnography and Qualitative Research (10th Ethnography and Qualitative Research International Conference, July 10-12, Trento, Italy).

In the framework of world science structure mapping the HSE University Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge (ISSEK) for the first time has identified the most relevant for Russia research and development topics using a system of intelligent analysis of big data iFORA.

In July, a team from the HSE Centre for Language and Brain, in collaboration with the Centre for the Study, Preservation, and Development of Native Languages of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), conducted the first-ever neurolinguistic expedition to the village of Churapcha to study reading in the Yakut language using electroencephalography (EEG). For the first time, EEG data from 43 adults and behavioural data from 40 children was collected during the two-week expedition.

The staff of the Center made presentations, sharing the latest achievements in the field of neurotechnology and neuroimaging. The annual conference "Neurocampus Baikal 2025" was held on the shore of Lake Baikal from 06/29/25 - 07/04/25.

In the journal Manuscrito (Brazil) and in the journal Humanitarian Studies in Eastern Siberia and the Far East, articles by the research intern of LL LLFP, Viktoriia Denisova, have been published.

A Round Table on SDG financing in countries of the global South was held under the IV International Conference on Financing for Development. International experts, including Liliana Proskuryakova, Head of the ISSEK Laboratory for Science and Technology Studies, discussed the main challenges that developing countries face on the path to SDGs and ways to overcome them.

A Round Table on SDG financing in countries of the global South was held under the IV International Conference on Financing for Development. International experts, including Liliana Proskuryakova, Head of the ISSEK Laboratory for Science and Technology Studies, discussed the main challenges that developing countries face on the path to SDGs and ways to overcome them.