An HSE delegation, led by Rector Nikita Anisimov, visited China for negotiations with the administration of the country’s top universities. The parties agreed to expand bilateral scientific and educational collaboration and signed several documents. In particular, a strategic partnership agreement was established with Peking University, one of the oldest and most prestigious educational institutions in China.

Scientists from HSE and Sechenov University have developed a methodology for identifying priority areas and breakthrough technologies to drive the pharmaceutical industry's development. Their joint research, supported by Innopraktika, aims to pinpoint key scientific directions crucial for addressing diseases with significant medical and social impact in the future. An analysis of current and projected data revealed that lung cancer, breast cancer, and stomach cancer contribute the most to the medical, social, and economic burden on healthcare systems. 

In 2024, analysts from the Center for Strategic Analytics and Big Data of the ISSEK and developers of the iFORA big data intellectual analysis system implemented a number of methodological innovations, improving the results of semantic text analysis and increasing the security and efficiency of the iFORA big data analysis system infrastructure. They shared their achievements during a series of methodological webinars on new solutions in big data analysis, which took place in November 2024 and consisted of three sessions.

For the third year in a row, the HSE ISSEK Centre for Strategic Analysis and Big Data holds a series of webinars on the methodological innovations of the iFORA system. During this series of events, the Centre’s employees will share their experience in applying new methodological solutions in big data analysis. Additionally, the developers of the iFORA big data intelligent analysis system will demonstrate its effectiveness using real cases. The webinars will take place on November 13, 15 and 18, 2024.Young researchers, senior undergraduate and graduate students at the National Research University Higher School of Economics and all those interested in semantic text analysis technologies are invited to participate. The case studies will focus on human capital development and the current education agenda.

2022 marked 20 years since the HSE Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge has been founded. To celebrate this 20th Anniversary, we selected key events and facts in ISSEK’s history that sparked reflective discussions in academia, set new milestones for HSE University, or encouraged development in various sectors of the Russian economy and public life.

In autumn 2022, a series of three webinars that presented the study of human capital from different angles based on big data mining was launched by the Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge (ISSEK) of the Higher School of Economics at the Human Capital Multidisciplinary Research Centre. The speakers shared their experience of working with big data in different languages, including Chinese, and also demonstrated a wide functional range of the iFORA system through the prism of studying human capital and its components.

On June 22, 2022, the HSE Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge held a webinar within the framework of the Human Capital Multidisciplinary Research Centre program. It presented the possibilities of using the tools of the iFORA big data mining system to identify global and Russian trends related to human potential development.

Based on the analysis of big data, the Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge (ISSEK) of the Higher School of Economics has identified the most significant digital technologies already used or introduced in the global and Russian manufacturing industry.

As the situation with COVID-19 has shown, mistakes associated with insufficiently developed policy measures in medicine, science, education and other socially significant sectors of the economy are very costly for society. In the July issue of Nature, First Vice-Rector, HSE ISSEK Director Leonid Gokhberg discussed the topic of the growing practice of making management decisions based on big data analysis.