How could Russian scientists promote themselves?
Russian scientists should learn to promote their research not just inside the country but also internationally. Representatives of leading Russian universities spoke about practical ways to achieve this at the round table discussion hosted by the TASS news agency on the Russian Science Day.
Fifth International Academic Conference on Foresight and STI Policy held in Moscow
The fifth International Academic Conference on Foresight and STI Policy took place at the Russian National Research University – Higher School of Economics (HSE, Moscow) on 18-20 November 2015. The conference was organized under the auspices of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) and the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation. Among the speakers of the conference were officials and experts from Russia and other countries.
Higher School of Economics became a coordinator of the International Foresight Centers Network
National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE) and Brazilian Center for Strategic Studies and Management in Science, Technology and Innovation (CGEE) founded an International Foresight Centers Network. The Letter of Intent was signed on November 20, 2015, on the concluding day of HSE V Annual International Academic Conference on Foresight and STI Policy.
HSE Conference to Discuss Foresight Research from Russia to Singapore
What should Russia’s policy be on Science and Technology? What do Russian and international foresight research results show? How is international cooperation in science developing? These are among the questions which will be discussed at the 5th annual international research conference on Foresight and STI Policy at HSE on the 18th — 20th of November.
Discussing Tech Mining methods in Atlanta
Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), the partner of HSE Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge in various projects, organised the Global TechMining Conference and the Atlanta Conference on Science and Innovation Policy. Ozcan Saritas, Nadezhda Mikova and Pavel Bakhtin, researchers at HSE ISSEK International Foresight Centre, took part in the conferences with the presentation of their own research.
‘If you want to collaborate with a foreign country, you must learn its history and culture first’
On September 24, 2015, a delegation of the Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan (MOST) visited HSE ISSEK. During the visit, Dr. Yi-Bing Lin, Taiwan’s Deputy Minister of Science and Technology, a world class IT expert, gave an interview to the HSE news portal, in which he shared his view of the future of IT, talked about the potential of partnership between Russia and Taiwan in different areas of science, cited some theses of Karl Marx’s theory and showed pencil drawings of Russian historical figures that he had made himself.
ISSEK Master's programme becoming more popular
The new academic year has experienced a significant increase in students’ interest for the English-language Master’s programme "Governance of Science, Technology and Innovation": While 30 students were enrolled in 2014, this year 44 applicants showed outstanding performance in the tough application competition. Among them, there are 10 international students who arrived from Ghana, Italy, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Poland, Romania, the USA, Uzbekistan, South Korea and France.
Cluster selection
The Russian Ministry of Economic Development Commission has reviewed Russian regions’ applications for investments in innovative territorial clusters’ projects at the meeting held on 18 August in the town of Troitsk near Moscow. HSE ISSEK experts Mikhail Goland, head of the Centre for Cooperation with Public Authorities, Development Institutes and Companies, and Evgeny Kutsenko, head of the Russian Cluster Observatory, took part in the meeting.
‘ERA.NET Plus with Russia’ marks a new stage in EU-Russia science cooperation
On July 1–2, 2015, the funding parties met at the Saint Petersburg State University to take the final funding decision on multilateral research projects to be funded in the framework of the ERA.NET Plus with Russia, an initiative supported under the EU’s Seventh Framework Programme for Research (FP7). Elena Nasybulina, leading expert of the National Contact Point (NCP) for the international mobility of researchers at HSE ISSEK, made a presentation at the meeting. Along with the HSE ISSEK Foresight Centre, NCP conducted a study to determine the priorities of scientific partnership.
Foresight Courses in Manchester: Evolution of HSE Expert Participation
The annual foresight courses which have been running at Manchester University since 1999 are considered some of the most prestigious and important for researchers of the future. In July 2015 two researchers at the Foresight Centre at ISSEK who have been students on the courses themselves have been invited this year to come and teach.