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).

Student of Faculty of Economic Sciences, Julia Gurova shares her experience of exchange program in the University of Charles III in Madrid.

Maria Kalmykova, a student of the faculty of World Economics and World Politics, shares her impressions of studying at Seoultech, South Korea.

On 4th December the International Students Office at HSE Moscow held the first Cultural Cafe evening, a project to broaden cultural exchange between HSE students from different countries. A similar initative was launched at HSE Nizhny Novgorod earlier this year. It’s all taking place in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere. Students from Ghana, Indonesia, China, Nigeria and Uganda made their presentations at the first event and talked about different aspects and traditions of culture in their countries from historical facts to national dishes.

On November 19th - 20th 2015, a scholarship contest as part of the Erasmus long-term academic mobility programme was held at HSE School of Logistics.

On November 8^th, 2015 the Study Abroad Information Fair was held at Tilburg University. Over 12,000 students from the Netherlands and all over the world took part in the event and learned about the opportunities for academic exchange in foreign universities. The organisers invited exchange students from Tilburg University to present their home universities at the fair and share their impressions and experience of studying and living in other countries. 

Olga Timurgalieva from the Faculty of Humanities shares her impression of being an exchange student at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany.

This year, ESSCA is opening for the first time, its Grand Digiprize 3 Competition to students from its partner universities. This is a contest of ideas and innovation, reserved for young people aged 17-25. Last year 113 projects were presented and 20 received awards.