On March 17, 2017, a regular meeting of the Project 5-100 Council on Competitiveness Enhancement of Leading Russian Universities took place in Moscow. HSE representatives told the Council, which includes international experts, about the University’s achievements following the implementation of the first half of the Project. They also discussed their upcoming development plans.

In 2016 we attempted a review of the outgoing academic year. Please see the big interview with Galina Volodina, campus director, about the most important issues for the university. But since then a lot has happened and a lot has been achieved. So, what else will we remember from 2016?

Clarivate Analytics (formerly Thomson Reuters Intellectual Property & Science business) has awarded the most influential Russian researchers and research centres.

Ekaterina Oparina, Research Assistant at the Centre for Private-Public Interactions at HSE’s Perm campus, has been accepted to the PhD in Economics programme at the University of Surrey (UK).

Galina Volodina, Director of the HSE Campus in Perm, spoke about the results of this year of studies and research.

PhD Sofya Kulikova, Senior Research Fellow of the HSE-Perm's Laboratory of Interdisciplinary Empirical Studies, read a popular science lecture based on the results of her own study in Lomonosov State University of Moscow. Such possibility was granted to the finalists of all-Russian contest of popular science articles “In simple words about complex things”.