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In July 2016 our university created a Specialized department (project office) JSC “Saint-Petersburg Techno Park”, and one of its units in the business incubator “Ingria”. Now the specialized department is a part of HSE - Saint Petersburg School of Economics and Management and its aim is to develop theoretic and practical knowledge and applied competences of bachelor, specialist and master students in the sphere of project work, as well as to help students and alumni find their place on the labor market and increase their competitive advantages.

The National Pushkin Museum at its famous home on on Moyka Embankment was the platform for the first Polish-Russian interdisciplinary seminar ‘Methods of Textual Criticism and Models of Poetics’. The seminar was co-organized by the museum, HSE in St. Petersburg, Polish Academy of Sciences, and the Vinogradov Institute of Russian Language, Russian Academy of Sciences.

Experts from HSE’s Moscow and St. Petersburg campuses participated in the 2nd International Spatial Development Forum, which took place September 24 – 27, 2016, in St. Petersburg. The key topic of the forum was ‘Extreme Urbanism’.

Higher School of Economics (HSE) is the sole Russian academic institution to appear on the ranking’s Top-100 for ‘Business and Economics’, holding the 83rd spot.

This year the 12th Annual International Workshop on ‘Intangibles, Intellectual Capital and Extra-Financial Information’ was held in Russia for the first time. The workshop was organized by the European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management (EIASM) in cooperation with HSE and the University of Ferrara.

The 12th Annual International Workshop ‘Intangibles, Intellectual Capital and Extra-Financial Information’ was held at HSE St Petersburg last week. This is an established event that many academics and practitioners in the area of intellectual capital and intangibles know about due to its high credibility. Most of the relevant people in this field have participated in the workshop throughout the years.

"Up to 80% of a business's value today can be in intangible areas. While financial reporting remains a very important pillar of corporate reporting, it is not enough on its own to explain how an organization creates value over time", – Neil Stevenson, Managing Director (Global Implementation) of International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC),  participant of the 12th Interdisciplinary Workshop "Intangibles, Intellectual Capital and Extra-Financial Information", is sure.

HSE in St. Petersburg is often warmly referred to as a ‘big family’, so it’s nice that this family is particularly multinational. Students from 40 countries currently study at HSE St. Petersburg, and have the opportunity not only to gain new knowledge and valuable skills in intercultural communication, but also to make friends from all over the world.