Elizaveta Vostokova and Alexandra Kozhukhar, students at the School of Linguistics, took part in the expedition to Guatemala in June 2016. The event was organized by the University of Maryland and was dedicated to research into the Kaqchikel Maya people. The expedition was led by Maria Polinsky, Professor of Linguistics, Omer Preminger, Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics, and  Pedro Mateo, Assistant Research Professor at the Maryland Language Science Center. During the first two weeks of the expedition, the participants studied the Kaqchikel language, the rest of the time they spent working with native speakers.

Elizaveta Arzhakova, MSc student at the HSE Faculty of Mathematics, shares her impressions of the semester she spent at École Normale Supérieure in Paris.

HSE Faculty of Law delivered a course on Jurisprudence for exchange students from the Nice Sophia Antipolis University as part of long-term ties between the universities. This was the first student exchange under the partnership agreement between the two universities. HSE plans to further develop this partnership programme.

Natalia Nazarenko, a 2^nd year master student of ‘Governance of Science, Technology and Innovation’ programme is sharing her impressions on the exchange programme at the University of Bremen in Germany and saying why cultural shock is inevitable.

Yulia Moiseenko and Emilie Bertram, students of the HSE Master’s Programme “Governance of Science, Technology and Innovation” are sharing their impressions about  the double degree programme between TU Berlin and HSE.

Ekaterina Kolokolchikova, a student of Business and Management faculty, is sharing her impressions on studying at ESSCA, France.

Every year, the best achieving ICEF students are given the opportunity to go to the LSE Summer School in London. ICEF sponsored three students in 2015, and two students received a grant from LSE and ICEF. We asked LSE Summer School 2015 participants to tell us what helped them become best academic achievers and to share their impressions of the summer school and the city. It turned out that they have different life strategies, but they share a love of LSE library and the desire to learn and work hard.

In total during the Call for Fall 2016 we received 567 applications for the exchange in 58 partner universities from 298 BA, MA and Doctoral students (HSE campuses in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Nizhny Novgorod).