Education

On February 14, 2018 the Department of Information Systems and Technologies in Logistics of School of Logistics together with the research and production company "Smart Solutions" within educational programs of School of Logistics held a research seminar and a workshop of specialists of the company on "Multiagent systems and its application in logistics, transport and supply chain management: experience of real projects" in which intellectual computing MAS technologies and real industrial projects in logistics, transport and SCM have been shown.

According to research by Future Today, HSE’s Faculty of Economic Sciences is the most in-demand among employers. A further three HSE faculties were named in the top 10.

Major League Hacking (MLH) holds its events around the world, but this year is the first time MLH Local Hack Day is taking place in Russia thanks to the initiative of students from the Higher School of Economics. Participants of the hackathon developed IT solutions for some of Russia’s largest companies.

School of Logistics, Faculty of business and management in HSE has received from the European Logistics Association (ELA) official permission to give out international certificates of level "cELog" (European Logistician Candidate - a candidate for the European logistics providers) to the best graduates of a bachelor degree without passing additional exams.

On June 28, 2017, the second graduation ceremony for the double-degree Master’s programme in Big Data Systems (HSE, Russia) and Information Systems Management (UAS Technikum Wien, Austria) was held at the Austrian Residence. Dr. Emil Brix, Ambassador of Austria in Moscow, gave the opening speech. During the reception, he congratulated graduates on successfully completing the programme and stressed the importance of cooperation between the universities for multicultural and professional communication.

Two teams from the Faculty of Business and Management took four nominations in the HackUPC hackathon, held in Barcelona by Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC). 

Master-class "UNIQLO going forward: new challenges in a new market" has passed at the Faculty of business and management on 21 February 2017. It was provided by Anna Lemeshkina, head of marketing of UNIQLO, and HR-specialist Svetlana Orekhova.

HSE’s Faculty of Business and Management and Faculty of Economic Sciences were in the top three of the faculties most sought after by employers in Russia.

10^th International Student Conference on Contemporary Problems and Trends in Logistics and Supply Chain Management Development was held in School of Logistics on April 27-28, 2016. The conference was attended by the bachelors, masters and postgraduate students, representatives of the School of logistics of HSE and other leading universities of Russia and Germany, as well as CIS countries. The total number of participants exceeded 200 people.

A team which includes several HSE students has won the SAP InnoJam hackaton in Moscow. The winners will now move forward to the SAP InnoJam in Europe this autumn.