Education news at HSE University

The HSE Art and Design School has opened HSE Creative Hub,a city space in a historic two-story building on Panteleevskaya Street in Moscow. It will serve as a venue for HSE University lecturers, researchers, students, and invited experts to hold discussions, presentations, and speeches that will be open to everyone. The hub will also facilitate the development of numerous projects of the HSE Art and Design School and the HSE Institute for Creative Industries Development and allow creators to meet partners from the industry.

On April 17, HSE University and Vitus Bering Kamchatka State University signed a cooperation agreement at the Durasov House on Pokrovsky Boulevard. The new partnership will include joint expeditions, research, and educational activities, including a permanent expedition to research and preserve the languages ​​and cultures of Kamchatka.

The Master’s Programme ‘Applied Artificial Intelligence Models’ trains professionals with the competencies to create industrial artificial intelligence models capable of solving a wide range of applied tasks. During training, students will study and apply modern methods and means of creating applied models using artificial intelligence technologies.

On April 4, the HSE Art and Design School hosted an award ceremony for the winners and runners-up of the third season of the HSE CREATIVE OPEN international online competition. This season’s categories included Identity, Object Design, Music Release, Advertising Concept, Illustration, and Game Space.

In mid-March 2023, a delegation of HSE University attended APAIE, a major annual educational conference held in Bangkok. At the conference, the HSE representatives organised a session, conducted negotiations with several universities, and met with high-ranking officials from government agencies and international organisations. Furthermore, during the conference, HSE signed a cooperation and student exchange agreement with Mahidol University, one of Thailand's top national research universities.

This year’s International Olympiad Competitions for University Students and Graduates, held in 38 subjects, have taken place. Both rounds — qualifying and final — were held in an online format. HSE University and VK Engineering and Mathematics School were the partners of the ‘Computer Systems and Networks’ category, while Avito were the partners for the ‘Applied Mathematics and Computer Science’ category.

Applied Mathematics is one of the flagship educational programmes run by the HSE Tikhonov Moscow Institute of Electronics and Mathematics. Anna Presnova, a lecturer at HSE University since 2018, has recently become its Academic Supervisor. She talked about the changes awaiting the programme, her personal research interests, and what it means to be a mother of two children while being involved in research, teaching and administration at the same time.

Amidst a turbulent market and tectonic shifts in the environment, senior executives of Russian companies are showing a greater need for business education. This spring, the HSE Graduate School of Business has launched updated Master of Business Administration and Doctor of Business Administration programmes. The programme organisers report a large number of incoming applications, and currently there are 50 students enrolled in the MBA programme.