Faiz Arsyad, from Indonesia is a first year student at the Faculty of Economic Sciences, master program Agrarian Economics, talks about his first months at the National Research University Higher School of Economics being a master students

International students are beginning to arrive at HSE University for the new academic year. Among them are students from Indonesia. Some of them even had a chance to take their parents on a tour of the campus. How does one become an HSE University student? What do the university’s venues have to offer? What is it like to live in Moscow? The new arrivals shared their first impressions with the HSE News Service.

The Mirror Labs research project competition is aimed at HSE University departments that are planning to conduct joint studies with other Russian universities and research centres. The competition is now in its third year. A total of 19 academic organisations from 14 regions of Russia submitted applications as partners of HSE University, including 9 organisations participating for the first time.

On November 9, 2021, HSE University signed a memorandum of understanding with Wageningen University & Research, a major university in the Netherlands and one of the leading agricultural research institutes in the world. Participants of the signing ceremony included HSE University Rector Nikita Anisimov, President of the Wageningen University & Research Executive Board Professor Louise Fresco, and Dutch Ambassador to Russia Gilles Beschoor Plug.

24-26 March, 2021, the Head of the Department of Rural Development Studies of Institute for Agrarian Studies Alexey Naumov took part in the International conference “Thinking Urban-Rural interactions through Food and Land Uses issues”.

On 10, 12 and 17 March, 2021 the Institute for Agrarian Studies of HSE University and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO successfully organized and held three webinars in the framework of the international forum "Food Policy, Rural Development and Gender Equality in Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia: Current Trends and the Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic".

The proceedings and recordings of broadcasts of the Forum are available when you click the news.

16-17 November 2020 Lichang City (Yunnan, China) hosted the Inaugural Conference of Alliance of Poverty Reduction and Development of ANSO and the International Conference of Global Poverty Reduction and Sustainable Development. 

The representatives of company «Innopraktika», the Institute for Agrarian Studies of Higher School of Economics, NCO «Roskachestvo», Russian National Organic Union, company «PhosAgro», Russian State Agrarian University - Moscow Timiryazev Agricultural Academy, leading experts from Wageningen University (the Netherlands) and company “Ecocert” (France) discussed the possibilities for development of educational programmes for training of specialists on organic agriculture and shared experiences in financing and commercializing the scientific projects. The panel discussions took place within the framework of the Russian Agricultural Exhibition "Golden Autumn".

At the upcoming 20^th April International Academic Conference, HSE’s new Institute for Agrarian Studies will hold a panel on the drivers of growth in the Russian agrarian sector. Johan Swinnen, Director of LICOS Center for Institutions and Economic Performance at KU Leuven, has been invited to speak at the panel.

The round table “How restrictions on the fertilizers consumption can affect global agricultural markets” was held at the National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE) on March 21, 2019. The main topic of discussion was the prospects for reducing fertilization application rates and the question of legitimation of the equity of fertilizers and pesticides due to the recent changes in EU and USA legislation (United Nations Indicator SDG 2.1.4). The experts discussed how it will affect Russian fertilizer producers, on the one hand, and global trends in biologization, the use of combined plant protection methods, organic farming, on the other.