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The spring cycle of professional development courses organized by the International Laboratory for socio-cultural research completed. A course of lectures "Intercultural and Acculturation Psychology" read by John Berry, the author of the theory of acculturation, professor emeritus at Queen's University, Canada, continued from April 16 to 20. A series of seminars "The Psychology of Economics” led by researchers of the department of social psychology of Tilburg University, the Netherlands, Marcel Zeelenberg and Seger Breugelmans, continued from April 23 to 26.

The seminar on theme “INPRES project: The adaptation of immigrants from Russia to Finland” was held on 26 April in the ILSCR. The lecturers were Inga Jasinskaja-Lahti, associate professor in Social Psychology, and Tuuli Anna Mähönen, substitute university lecturer in Social Psychology (the department of Social Research, University of Helsinki).

On April 26, 2012 the Higher School of Economics (HSE) hosted an international workshop titled "Exchange of experience and fostering networking with information service providers in the sphere of science, technology and innovation". Participants discussed the methods and tools of information and dissemination support for S&T activities, as well as existing and potential areas of cooperation btween Russia and the European Union.

LCSR organized an 2nd international research workshop in Saint Petersburg on April 23-27, 2011.

The weekly workshop of the LCSR has started on April 23, 2012 in Saint-Petersburg. The event is attended by participants not only from different Russian cities, but also from Belarus, Ukraine, United States, Germany and Italy.

The video  broadcast of   the Moscow Scientific Seminar "Mathematical Methods for Analysis  in economics, business and politics " will be held at the National Research University - Higher School of Economics (www.hse.ru) (Rodionova Street, room №401)  on 24 April at 4.30 p.m. The leaders of the seminar: Professor Fuad T. Aleskerov,Professor Vladislav V. Podinovskiy,Professor Boris G. MirkinThe lecturer: Igor Mandel (Informational service TELMAR) The theme:" Modeling in Marketing: unsolved problems".The language: Russian

On April 20, 2012 LSCR`s research assistants - Natalia Soboleva and Dina Migunova gave a talk on the VI conference of the memory of Yuri Levada (HSE).

In the middle of April, 2012 there was conducted another Oxford Spring School. Such schools are conducted annualy. And this year it was the 10th school. Topis of the schools are almost always new, this year a course was devoted to the Multilevel Analysis.

The seminar on “Acculturation and Adaptation of Immigrant Youth” was held on 19 April in the ILSCR. The lecturer was John Berry, professor emeritus in Queen’s University of Kingston, Canada.

Professor Anna Andreenkova gave a talk "The Main Trends in Social Attitudes and Behavior of Russians in Comparison to Other European Countries".