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On September 23, 2026, at a meeting of the International Laboratory for Social Integration Research at HSE University, a pre-defense of the candidate’s dissertation by Maxim Yuryevich Gurin, a PhD student at the Laboratory, took place. The dissertation is titled "Supported Living as a Space for the Coming of Age of Young People with Mental Disabilities: Practices and Meanings."

Sergey Davydov, Senior Research Fellow at the International Laboratory for Social Integration Research, HSE University, took part in an expert interview conducted by researchers from the VCIOM Analytical Center as part of the preparation of the report “Children Online. Protecting Minors in the Digital Environment: International Experience, Russian Practice and Promising Areas for Development.” The report was published on September 24, 2026, on the VCIOM Analytical Center website.

The conference is organized by the European Academic Integrity Network (ENAI), together with Ilia State University and the ETHICS project. The conference marked the completion of a major international ETHICS project with the support of the European Union.

From September 14 to 18, 2026, a series of scientific events took place at the National Research University Higher School of Economics (11 Pokrovsky Boulevard) featuring a visiting international scholar, Jiahua Zhu, a lecturer in finance at King's College London (UK). The visit was organized by the Laboratory for Economics and Finance (LEEF) of the HSE Faculty of Economic Sciences and included laboratory experiments, internal discussions, and an open seminar.

On September 24, M. N. Rybakov gave a talk entitled “Logics for Describing Computations: Syntax, Semantics, and Complexity” at the L. L. Maksimova “Non-Classical Logics” Seminar, held at the Institute of Mathematics of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

On September 24, 2026, the International Laboratory for Population and Health at HSE University held a research seminar entitled «Studying fertility in Russia through a birth cohort: a bayesian approach and regional specifics». Pavel Kishenin, a Research Intern and PhD student at the International Laboratory for Population and Health, presented the results of his dissertation research.

On September 23, a research seminar was held at which research intern Yuri Kazakov gave a talk entitled “Epistemic Models of Questions and Answers.”

In mid-September 2026, UNESCO held an online seminar entitled ‘Quantum Science and the Future of Quantum Technologies.’ During a panel discussion, Alexander Sokolov, Director of the International Research and Educational Foresight Centre at the HSE Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge (ISSEK) and Chair of the UNESCO Chair on Future Studies at HSE University, presented the results of ISSEK’s Quantum Leap foresight study to international experts.

On July 6 and 7, 2026, as part of the Summer School, a roundtable discussion was held featuring Professor Eran Vigoda-Gadot, Leading Scientist of the International Laboratory for Digital Transformation in Public Administration. The meeting served as a platform for an in-depth dialogue on the future of the digital state and the professional insights of academic writing

HSE University has joined the international BESIII (Beijing Spectrometer III) collaboration in high-energy physics. This marks the first practical outcome of the memorandum of cooperation signed in 2025 between HSE University and the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) in Beijing, China.