From October,3 to October,20 within the activities of the International laboratory for Education Policy Analysis at the Institute for Educational Studies series of advanced training seminars " Longitudinal studies in employment and education" were conducted by Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for Human Resource Research at the Ohio State University Dr. Randall Olsen.
On October 20th a public lecture "Psychological adjustment and cultural identities of immigrant adolescents" by Eugene Tartakovsky, a professor at the University of Tel-Aviv (Israel) was held in Psychology Department within the scientific seminar “Culture matters”.
On 18 October 2011 Prof. Vladimir Mayer delivered a seminar on "French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and its Tools for International Cooperation"
From October 13-14 a seminar on ‘Foresight and S&T and innovation policy: best practices’ took place at the HSE. The event was organized by the HSE Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge. The first day of the seminar was dedicated to relevant problems of Foresight studies, and the second one to the problems of innovation policy in different countries. Below are some comments from the seminar’s organizers and participants.
From October 13-14 a seminar on ‘Foresight and S&T and innovation policy: best practices’ took place at the HSE. The event was organized by the HSE Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge. The first day of the seminar was dedicated to relevant problems of Foresight studies, and the second one to the problems of innovation policy in different countries. Below are some comments from the seminar’s organizers and participants.
On 13 October 2011 Alexey Zaharov (senior research fellow at the LCSR) and Alexey Bessudnov (research fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies) gave a talk on “Experimental studies of dicrimination in the labor market in Moscow".
October 13th held a regular scientific seminar of the series "Culture Matters". A presentation “Comparative study of methods measuring values or “If we've got questions, then they've got answers” was made by Dmitry Podolsky, Ph.D., senior researcher at Moscow State University.
On 11 October 2011 Prof. Vladimir Mayer (CNRS, France) devilered a seminar on "Recent evolution in the organization of CNRS; increasing impact of public research in the society of innovation".
Egor Lazarev, junior research assistant at LCSR, presented his report “Land, Votes and Violence: Political Effects of the Insecurity of Property Rights over Land in Dagestan” on October 6th. Egor reported from the University of Michigan, where he is currently Carnegie visiting scholar.
On October 4th Peter Schwartz, a world renowned futurist and Honorary Professor of the HSE, spoke at a seminar organized by the HSE Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge.
