Practical training

General information

Practical training is a form of educational activity during studies under a given degree programme, with learners completing certain types of tasks, related to their future professional activities and aimed at building, consolidating, and developing practical skills and competencies specific to the respective degree programme. The goals and objectives of practical training shall be attained through the implementation of PTEs. The implementation of practical training for HSE students is provided in the module of the study plan of the educational programme, that is titled "Internship".

The procedure for organising and conducting PTEs of HSE students is regulated by Regulations on Practical Training of Students under Core Bachelor’s, Specialist and Master’s Programmes at HSE University

You can also read about the organisation of internship at the HSE in the academic handbook at the link.

The conditions and features of the implementation of PTEs provided by the curriculum of the study plan of the educational programme Arts and Culture Management are described in

for 2026 intake - Internship Programme 2026-2028
for 2025 intake - Internship Programme 2025-2027

You can learn more about the preparation of Master's dissertation in the document "Guidelines for Master Dissertation" on the page Final State Certification.

Practical training elements (PTEs):

For 2025, 2026 intakes:

Year	PTE	Feature 1 (compulsory/ elective)	Feature 2 (fixed/variable)	Number of ECTS credits and academic hours	Period of realisation
1	Term paper	Compulsory	Fixed	4 (152 ac.h.)	Modules 2-4
1	Project	Compulsory	Fixed	6 (228 ac.h.)	Modules 1-4
2	Work Experience Internship	Compulsory	Fixed	8 (304 ac.h.)	Module 3
2	Master's dissertation (preparation)	Compulsory	Fixed	17 (646 ac.h.)	Modules 2-4, defence in June Final version upload in May

Table Form of the Internship Programme 2025 rus

Table Form of the Internship Programme 2026 rus

Master's dissertation defence is a compulsory state examination

More information on the defence can be found here: Final State Certification

TERM PAPER (for intake 2026)

28 November	29 April	17 June, 19:00 (TENTATIVE)	20-30 June
Deadline for submitting applications on the topic of term papers	Submission of a request for title and/or supervisor change (if needed)	Submission of the final version of the term paper, antiplagiarism check with “Antiplagiat” system	Term Paper Defense

WORK EXPERIENCE INTERNSHIP (for intake 2025)

Internship period: 18 January 2027 - 12 March 2027

The Internship Superviser: Svetlana Supranovich (ssupranovich@hse.ru)

The main information on Work Experience Internship in the academic year 2026/27 can be found in Internship Programme 2025-2027 (pp. 6-11).

Internship Placement

The placement must be approved by the internship supervisor.

Deadline is to be communicated by the internship supervisor.

There are the following ways to find a place of internship:

1. Get assistance from Career Development Centre. Each year, the CDC forms a base of places for internship, which will be provided by our partners for students.

2. Your internship supervisor can help to find a place of internship.

3. Internship can be completed in the laboratories and research centres of the Higher School of Economics, in this case you need to contact the heads of the respective structural units.

Internship Agreement

Before the beginnig of an internship, it is necessary to sign an agreement, unless an agreement already exists. If the student is doing internships through the Career Development Centre, partner company or at the HSE structural unit, no additional agreement is required. In other cases an argeement must be finalised and verified with the help of internship supervisor.

1. Students draw up an individual assignment for the internship and the schedule of internship together with the internship supervisor from the university before the start of an internship. They are refined during the internship if needed and signed by internship supervisors from HSE and the company not later than 2 weeks before the defence. Individual task and a internship schedule are presented together with the internship report on the day of defence. If students fail to provide these documents with all the required signatures, they will be denied admission to the defense.

2. After the end of the internship, internship supervisor from the company writes a review.

3. During the internship, students write a report.

Templates for the reporting documents are provided in the Internship Programme.

Master’s Programme 'Arts and Culture Management'

Contacts

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