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In November 2025, students from the Master's program 'International Business in the Asia-Pacific Region' at HSE University – St Petersburg took part in an off-site educational session at the office of Evercode Lab, a leading Russian IT firm renowned for its work with international teams and clients. 

Students of the Master's Programme "International Business in the Asia-Pacific Region" participated in the international tourism forum "Travel Hub 2025" in St. Petersburg from December 11 to 13, 2025, as part of their study of the "Place Branding" course developed by Ekaterina Shekova, Associate Professor of the Management Department.

Large international event has gathered delegations from 10 countries with the purpose of establishment and reinforcement of cooperation between universities of different parts of the world. Leaders of the institutes signed bilateral agreements, Saint-Petersburg Higher school of economics launched a center of excellence, faculty representatives discussed initiatives and mutual arrangements, held lectures and master-classes for students, all the guests were bestowed with memorial awards. The summit also included a festive opening ceremony and speeches of the founders of the university, national dances, collective contests, traditional food, visits to the Indian village and the golden temple in Amritsar.

From November 8 to 11, the international scientific conference on entrepreneurship “Entrepreneurship for Sustainability & Impact (ESI)” was held in Doha (Qatar).

We extend our sincere thanks to VNU University of Economics and Business (UEB) and the Faculty of Finance and Banking for the invitation and warm reception. It was an honor for the Department of Finance, HSE University – St Petersburg, to deliver an open lecture to your students and colleagues. We deeply value this partnership and look forward to further strengthening our collaboration in teaching and research.

Boris Lodiagin and Olga Alekseeva delivered an open lecture for students and faculty of UEB’s Faculty of Finance and Banking titled “Capital Raising for Businesses in Russia: Lessons for Vietnam.” The session was highly practice-oriented: the speakers walked through real cases from Russian companies and demonstrated how to choose an optimal capital structure for different growth objectives.

Olga Alekseeva, a lecturer and graduate student at the HSE Department of Finance in Saint Petersburg, spoke at the 2025 Massey Sustainable Finance Conference (MSFC2025), which took place on October 31 — November 1, 2025 in Nanjing (China). The conference was organized by Massey University (New Zealand) in collaboration with Nanjing University of Finance & Economics (China) and brought together leading researchers of sustainable finance, regulators and practitioners.

With warm thanks to our Brazilian partners at São Paulo State University (UNESP): Prof. Dr. Cleginaldo Pereira de Carvalho, his coordination team, and the UNESP students for their openness, discipline, and high standards throughout the project.

Two months moved in a steady rhythm: short weekly sprints, evening calls across three–four time zones, shared folders for working documents, and clear roadmaps with check-points. Teams aligned data into a common format, agreed on terminology, and recorded decisions — step by step building a single picture everyone could work from.

Guests from one of the largest audit and consulting companies of Russia Technologies of Trust (TeDo) held an audit game with the students of Master of finance as part of the audit course. 

“Top level of complexity” is what we know about the derivative financial instruments and what our students can now do!

On October 4, 2025, Daria Kotova, Executive Director of the “Yasnaya Polyana” Space, gave a guest lecture as a part of the course "Creative Place Branding”. Daria described the brand concept, the choice of the name for the space, the target audience of the brand, and the specifics of coworking space promotion in the St. Petersburg market.