Society News at HSE University

A student team from the HSE Faculty of Management (Master’s programme in ‘Marketing Communications and Advertising in Modern Business’) has won third prize in the Worldwide Global Academic Challenge .

On October 30th as part of the elimination round of the Global Management Challenge competition, the Business Administration Cup for Engineering Students and Competition in Company Management for corporate managers took place.

The HSE Publishing House took part in the Frankfurt Book Fair which ran from October 13th to 18th this year.

On October 19th a meeting of the HSE International College of Economics and Finance with the British Ambassador in Russia, Anne Pringle, took place at the HSE. The Ambassador gave a lecture on ‘The Global Economy and An Overview of British-Russian Relations ’.

The HSE has joined the World Alliance for Citizen Participation (CIVICUS), an influential independent organization which studies civil society. Irina Mersiyanova, Director of the HSE Centre for Civil Society and Non-Profit Sector Research (GRANS Centre), told us some more about this event.

Recently the 21st International Political Science Association (IPSA) Congress took place in Santiago. Nina Belyaeva, Head of the HSE Department of Political Analysis and Public Policy, told us how scientific areas are being restructured, democracy is viewed, and a new paradigm of the political science is being formed.

HSE graduate Fyodor Novikov suggests an innovative way of urban planning .

The Higher School of Economics has been assisting with recent negotiations on Russia’s accession to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).