HSE University — St. Petersburg Keeps Integrating into International Environment
Despite the global restrictions caused by SARS-Cov-2, HSE University — St. Petersburg continues its active integration into the international academic and educational environment, including through the expansion of its international partner network.
HSE University - St. Petersburg and the University of Turin, a strategic partner of the campus, have signed 2 agreements on student exchange and faculty members mobility. The agreements open up new opportunities for academic mobility for students of the School of Economics and Management, the School of Arts and Humanities, and the School of Social Sciences and Area Studies.
Internationalisation Steering Group (ISG), which develops HSE University — St. Petersburg's implementation strategy and consider questions of establishing international partnerships, continues working. At the last two meetings, the Committee approved applications for partnerships with Rennes School of Business (France), UiT The Arctic University of Norway in Tromso, and the University of São Paulo (Brazil).
After a long break, HSE University – St. Petersburg has reopened not only for students but also for international guests and delegations. So on March 25, the Consul General of France in St. Petersburg, Mr Pascal Sliwanski, who took up his position last autumn, and his colleagues paid an official visit to the campus. At the meeting with the Director of the HSE University – St. Petersburg, Prof. S. Kadochnikov, the participants were discussing the issues and prospects for the development of cooperation between the campus in St. Petersburg and universities in France.