HSE and East-China Normal University (ECNU) have signed a new student exchange agreement expanding the range of opportunities for student mobility in all areas of studies, including social studies, humanities, and philosophy, as well as computer science, mathematics, and physics. The agreement was signed as part of the ECNU delegation’s visit headed by Tong Shijun, chairman of the ECNU University Council, to HSE.

According to this agreement, each party sends up to 6 students during an academic year for semester-long study from HSE master’s programmes: ‘International Business’, ‘Strategic Corporate Finance’,  and ‘Political Analysis and Public Policy’, and from USL master’s programmes: Management, Corporate Communication, Marketing, Finance, Banking and Finance, and Economic Policy for participation in the exchange programme.

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.