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In April, HSE University-St Petersburg held the conference 'HSEIMUN 2024'. This year, it gathered more than 100 delegates from among university and school students from Russia and Kazakhstan. The most active participants received souvenirs. Check out how the event went in the article.

Last week, the results of the competition for double degree programs became known. Four 1st-year students of the Comparative Politics of Eurasia program won the opportunity to spend the next academic year at the partner university of the program and receive two diplomas at the end of their studies - the HSE in St. Petersburgand and the University of Trento. 
We talked to the winners of the competition and found out what they expect from studying in Italy.

Daniil Kornev is a 2022 graduate of the Bachelor’s programme 'Political Science and World Politics'. Now, he is studying in the campus master's programme in UX-analytics and working at a gamedev company as a head of data analysis direction. We talked to Daniil about how programming helped political scientists, which thesis topic could help you find a career to your liking and how computer games were related to political science.

A delegation from HSE University in St Petersburg has visited universities in India. HSE representatives attended eight universities, and held meetings with management, teachers, and researchers. Here, participants talk about their impressions, cooperation agreements and some cultural peculiarities of India.

In March, the educational centre 'Sirius' hosted the World Youth Festival (WYF-2024). More than 300 thousand students from 188 countries applied for this event. Seven students from HSE University-St Petersburg were selected and took part in the festival programme.

The School of Social Sciences announces the recruitment of students for an expedition to Himalayas. You can apply until March 20.

In winter, we only talk about warm lands—and with HSE University-St Petersburg students as well. We talked to Anna Belokrylova, 3rd-year student of the Bachelor's programme 'Sociology and Social Informatics': she spent the autumn semester in Mexico. Find out how the studies at the University of Monterrey, what subjects turned out to be the most useful for her career, what the university environment offers international students and why each tourist has to see the Day of the Dead in the interview.

HSE University-St Petersburg and the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi), a leading Indian university, have agreed to launch joint research projects in the field of social, political studies, humanities, and data analysis for master's students. On the Russian side, this work will be coordinated by the HSE St Petersburg School of Social Sciences.

On April 6–8, HSE University-St Petersburg will hold the HSE International Model United Nations. Registration is open till March 1. Participation is open to both university and high school students.

HSE and the Indian Institute of Management Indore (IIMI) have agreed to open a mirror laboratory, determining their key priorities to be joint activities in the fields of nature conservation, research into environmental behaviour and sustainable development, and territorial branding in relation to Indian regions. The agreement on the new laboratory was reached during an ongoing visit by an HSE delegation to India.