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Several events related to the research and measurement of intellectual capital and their application in Russian business took place as part of the 16th HSE April Conference on Economic and Social Development.

The XVI April International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development, which will take place in Moscow from April 7 – 10, 2015, is one of the key academic events of the year. Thirteen professors of the St.Petersburg School of Economics and Management Department of Economics will speak at the conference.

The international graduate student conference organized by the Master's Programme in Experience Economy, ‘Sustainable Tourism Development in the Changing World’ which took place from February 5-6 at HSE St. Petersburg, was a forum for the discussion of new approaches in researching the tourism and hospitality industries for young researchers from St. Petersburg, Moscow, Arkhangelsk, Petrozavodsk, and South Korea.

In mid January, Professor Yakov Nikitin of the Department of Mathematics and Business Informatics went to a conference in India. We asked him to tell us about the trip.

On February 5 - 6, 2015, The Master's Programme in Experience Economy hosts International Graduate Conference which will gather graduate students from Russia as well as internationally.

Professor Valery Gordin, Head of the Faculty of Economics and Management at HSE St Petersburg, presents the Master’s Programme 'The Experience Economy: Hospitality and Tourism Management'. He is academic supervisor of the course which comes under the Events Management and Cultural Tourism field of study at HSE St Petersburg. Teaching is in Russian and English.

Irina Yatskiv of Riga’s Transport and Telecommunication Institute will deliver an English-language series of lectures on ‘Methods of Research in Management: Theory of Logistical Integration and Methods of Research in Logistics’. The lecture series is part of the Strategic Management in Logistics Master’s programme at HSE St. Petersburg and will take place in the second module of the current academic year from December 4 to 6, 2014.

On December 4 and 5, 2014, Sergey Slobodyan, Professor at the Center for Economic Research & Graduate Education – Economics Institute, Prague, will deliver a short series of lectures entitled 'Introduction to Dynamic Programming and Applications’ for students of the Master’s programme in Applied Economics and Mathematical Methods at the St. Petersburg Faculty of Economics and Management.

From July 7 – 13, 2014, the Laboratory of Economics of Culture at the HSE in St. Petersburg held an International Summer School ‘Impacts of Cultural Events on Small and Medium-size Art-oriented Towns’ (ICE – SMART). This was the first summer school organized as part of the master’s programme ‘Experience Economy: Hospitality and Tourism Management’.