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The International Laboratory of Intangible-driven Economy at HSE University conducted a professional development course titled "Advanced Econometrics: Striving for Causality" as part of the "International Academic Cooperation" project. The course was held online from September 24 to October 22, 2025, and consisted of ten academic sessions distributed over six weeks of intensive training.

Why we make irrational decisions, how the brain responds to fakes, and whether neural networks are capable of thinking—these were the topics discussed by early-career scientists of HSE University during the NAUKA 0+ science festival. The event brought together students and experts from various fields, united by a common goal—to deepen their understanding of the human brain and cognitive technologies.

Ivan Pylytsyn and Ivan Sobolev have secured spots in the integrated Master's-to-PhD program starting in 2025.

On October 20, 2025, at a meeting of the International Laboratory for Social Integration Studies at the Higher School of Economics, Maxim Pavlovich Kotelnikov, a postgraduate student at the HSE International Laboratory for Social Integration Studies, held a pre-defense of his candidate's dissertation on the topic "Literary practices as a resource for transforming the biographical projects of young men from families with low socioeconomic status."

Elena Dragalina-Chernaya made a presentation titled "Artefactual Agency Between Eliminativism and Essentialism" at the XVI International Ontological Congress, which was held under the patronage of UNESCO in the Basque Country (San Sebastián, Spain; Saint-Jean-de-Luz, France) from October 7 to 11.

On October 18, a session of the scientific-educational seminar "Mathematical Logic and category theory" took place, where Paolo Mancosu spoke.

The School of Politics and Governance of HSE University’s Faculty of Social Sciences held a preliminary discussion of the PhD paper of the International Laboratory for Digital Transformation for Public Administration Research Assistant Ivan Makarov.

HSE University is now accepting proposals to present academic reports at the XXVI April International Academic Conference named after Evgeny Yasin. Applications can be submitted until December 16, 2025. The conference events will take place mainly on-site in Moscow from April 14 to 17, 2026.

On October 9, 2025, Tatyana Yuryevna Larkina, a junior research fellow at the International Laboratory for Social Integration Research (ILSIR) at the National Research University, Higher School of Economics, defended her PhD dissertation on "Discretion in the Work of School Teachers in Russia."

The conference will take place from the 27th to the 30th of October. Registration is open.