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In October, a two-day seminar entitled ‘Ageing and frailty in Norway and Russia’ was held by HSE University’s International Laboratory for Population and Health.  In addition to purely demographic results concerning the changing age structure of the population and growing life expectancy, most presentations were devoted to the comparative assessment of physical and cognitive status among elderly people, cardiovascular aging, as well as social and medical support for the elderly. We spoke with the organizers and participants of the seminar about their research findings and the implications for society and public health.

Domestic and foreign policies of leading countries reveal an ever more outstanding science and technology agenda. The participants of the XI International Academic Conference ‘Foresight and Science, Technology and Innovation Policy’, conducted on October 15–25, 2021, reviewed new aspects of doing joint R&D projects that the countries have considered and ways of securing competitive advantages of national science through strengthening ties with both businesses and authorities and engaging a wider audience.

This fall the Linguistic Convergence Laboratory will organize a free online course on the East Caucasian (alias Nakh-Daghestanian) language family. The course will start on November 3.

One of the events that opened the second day of the conference was the round table 'Higher education for indigenous peoples: international and Russian experience.' Despite the critically early time, the discussion of problem areas and of the constructive experience in creating an educational environment in universities that supports cultural diversity was rich and lively. The presented reports discussed the value orientations of the development of higher education for indigenous peoples, the problems of adaptation of indigenous peoples to the learning environment, the strengths and limitations of various organizational forms and educational practices.

The magazine celebrating 50 years of multiculturalism policy in Canada includes a contribution by John W. Berry.

On October 20, at the VI International scientific and practical conference 'Inclusive Education and Society: Strategies, Practices and Resources,' a panel discussion Inclusive Education in Post-Soviet Countries: Based on the Results of an International Survey' was held.

Svetlana Dorofeeva, a member of the HSE Center for Language and Brain, spoke at the Scientific and Practical Conference "School Difficulties: Modern strategies for helping children", organized by the Russian Association of Parents and Children with Dyslexia, and co-organized by the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts.

On October 21 Milada Pavlova (PhD student, Department of Psychology, National Research University Higher School of Economics) took part in the "Culture matters" research seminar with the report ""Healthy office" as a factor of psychological well-being of employees (in the case of Russia and New Zealand)".

On October 20, a panel discussion "Civic participation and cross-sector partnerships as drivers of inclusion" was held within the VI International scientific and practical conference "Inclusive Education and Society: Strategies, Practices and Resources."

New discussion paper by Alexis Belianin, Heike Hennig-Schmidt, Gianluca Grimalda,Till Requate and Marina V. Ryzhkova