Artificial intelligence (AI) significant impacts on the economy and society, touching on a wide range of areas, from strategic management and decision-making to everyday communication. Experts from the HSE Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge (ISSEK) used the iFORA system to map key fractures —areas where changes have already become irreversible and will only intensify.
Yulia Gorodnicheva, a researcher at the Institute of Cognitive Neurosciences of HSE University, took part in “Tech-Friendly Weekend” — a youth festival held as part of the Digital Industry of Industrial Russia (CIPR) conference. The festival aims to popularize technology among young people.
Daria Prisyazhnyuk and Elena Iarskaia-Smirnova took part in the international SPACES conference at the Yerevan Center for Social and Humanities Research in Eurasia, where they presented findings from a comparative analysis of media frames surrounding the educational inclusion of children with disabilities and migrant children.
As part of a joint project between ILSIR and the Center for Curative Pedagogics — "Developing and Empirically Verifying a Conceptual Model of Quality of Life for Children and Adults with Psychiatric Disorders and Staff of Helping Organizations" — an expedition was conducted to residential social care institutions in the Irkutsk Region.
On May 20–22, 2026, St. Petersburg hosted the SBAS Forum (Smart Business and Applied Science), organized by ITMO University. During the forum, Valeria Fedorova, a research assistant at IDLAB, presented a study on the impact of generative AI-generated texts on the financial outcomes of crowdfunding campaigns.
Eric Maskin, an American economist and recipient of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Economics, gave a talk at HSE University in which he shared his views on the shortcomings of the proportional representation system and outlined his proposals for reform.
On May 15, 2026, a study dedicated to measuring the level of company internationalization based on open text data was presented at the research seminar of the "International Academic Cooperation" project. The report was presented by Nikita Matkin, Aleksei Smirnov, and Mikhail Usanin; the study was co-authored by Iuliia Naidenova, Sofia Paklina, and Mariya Molodchik.
Imagining oneself from an external perspective is easier than mentally “performing” the movement, yet the body responds in the same way — HSE scientists have found. This discovery changes the approach to rehabilitation after injuries and strokes.
On 18 May 2026, the International Laboratory of Intangible-driven Economy (IDLab) and the Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST) held another joint seminar as part of HSE University’s International Academic Cooperation project. The seminar focused on “The Role of Top Management and Digital Transformation in Shaping Internationalization and Firm Performance.” Held online, the event featured three presentations addressing different aspects of digital transformation, internationalization, and firm performance.
