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‘There Has Never Been a Better Time to Join HSE Moscow’

David Sarpong recently joined the HSE ISSEK Research Laboratory for Science and Technology Studies as a senior research fellow. In this interview with the HSE News Service, he shares his first impressions of Moscow and HSE, as well as his expectations for the future.

Summer School on Eurasian Economic Integration

Anna Nemirovskaya, Senior Research Fellow at LCSR, supervised a group of participants and facilitated group discussions at the Summer School on "Eurasian Economic Integration: Priorities, Perspectives and Tools", held on 13–18 July in Moscow by the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) in collaboration with the Russian Council on International Affairs.

‘There Has Never Been a Better Time to Join HSE Moscow’

David Sarpong recently joined the HSE ISSEK Research Laboratory for Science and Technology Studies as a senior research fellow. In this interview with the HSE News Service, he shares his first impressions of Moscow and HSE, as well as his expectations for the future.

‘ERA.NET Plus with Russia’ marks a new stage in EU-Russia science cooperation

On July 1–2, 2015, the funding parties met at the Saint Petersburg State University to take the final funding decision on multilateral research projects to be funded in the framework of the ERA.NET Plus with Russia, an initiative supported under the EU’s Seventh Framework Programme for Research (FP7). Elena Nasybulina, leading expert of the National Contact Point (NCP) for the international mobility of researchers at HSE ISSEK, made a presentation at the meeting. Along with the HSE ISSEK Foresight Centre, NCP conducted a study to determine the priorities of scientific partnership.

Announcement for LCSR summer school participants!

The time for the LCSR Summer school is coming. The internet connection in Voronovo is not very fast. For this reason we strongly recommend to install the list of the packages in R beforehand. 

ESRA 15 Conference in Iceland

The 6th conference of the European Survey Research Association titled “Reykjavik is the Capital of Parsimony” took place in Reykjavik, Iceland. Among the LCSR members who presented at ESRA 15, there were four staff members and three associate researchers.

Figure of the day: 57%

of full-time university students in 2014 worked in parallel with their studies. More than 30% of them indicated that their work is related to their future profession. These data were obtained in a survey of students at institutions of higher education that was carried out as part of a Monitoring of Education Markets and Organisations (MEMO) study conducted by HSE in collaboration with the Levada Centre in 2014.

Foresight Courses in Manchester: Evolution of HSE Expert Participation

The annual foresight courses which have been running at Manchester University since 1999 are considered some of the most prestigious and important for researchers of the future. In July 2015 two researchers at the Foresight Centre at ISSEK who have been students on the courses themselves have been invited this year to come and teach.

Foresight Courses in Manchester: Evolution of HSE Expert Participation

The annual foresight courses which have been running at Manchester University since 1999 are considered some of the most prestigious and important for researchers of the future. In July 2015 two researchers at the Foresight Centre at ISSEK who have been students on the courses themselves have been invited this year to come and teach.

Foresight Courses in Manchester: Evolution of HSE Expert Participation

The annual foresight courses which have been running at Manchester University since 1999 are considered some of the most prestigious and important for researchers of the future. In July 2015 two researchers at the Foresight Centre at ISSEK who have been students on the courses themselves have been invited this year to come and teach.