Alina Pakhomova, a fourth-year student of the Bachelor’s Programme ‘Information Science and Computation Technology’ at the HSE Tikhonov Moscow Institute of Electronics and Mathematics (HSE MIEM), spent six months studying at the oldest university in Europe — the University of Bologna. She went to Italy as part of an academic mobility programme, and upon returning to Moscow, she shared her impressions of life and studying abroad, her leisure activities, new friends, and, of course, the famous Italian cuisine.

Arina Darenskaya, a 2nd-year student of the Joint Bachelor's Programme with the Centre for Teaching Excellence and a participant of the exchange program with the support of the Endowment Fund scholarship, spoke about her experience of studying at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.