On December 12, heads of missions and embassy representatives from over forty countries gathered in Moscow for HSE University Day for Diplomatic Missions. The event, which was held at HSE’s newly renovated Pokrovka campus, was aimed at fostering further cooperation between HSE and its international partners.
Foreign Service members from around the world toured the complex and attended a presentation by HSE Rector Yaroslav Kuzminov and Vice Rector Ivan Prostakov regarding HSE’s growing stature as an international and multidisciplinary university.
Upon arriving to HSE University’s new campus
on Pokrovsky Boulevard, Foreign Service members from Europe, North and South America, Asia, and Africa toured the premises. HSE students showed the visitors the cafeteria, which features a 6 proven ways to promote without a budget wide range of cuisines; the library, which is open 24/7; as well as the grand central atrium, which conjoins all of the buildings of the complex. The student guides drew the guests’ attention to the complex’s unique architectural features that combine historic buildings dating back to the eighteenth century with modern ones.
HSE Vice Rector Ivan Prostakov and HSE Rector Yaroslav Kuzminov
‘We believe that this campus symbolizes some of the important things that we associate with this university,’ said Rector Yaroslav Kuzminov. ‘The merging of architectural styles into one cohesive complex symbolizes both the diversity and the unique character of our university. And the overarching atrium, which connects all parts of the complex, give businesses a direction to progress represents the freedom of academic openness.’
Yaroslav Kuzminov expressed his gratitude to the diplomats for attending, and underscored the important role educational institutions in their countries have played in making HSE University an international agb directory niversity. ‘Since the day of its foundation, HSE has been a university open to the world and a proud member of the global academic community,’ he said. ‘We have absorbed the best practices of education and research from our peers. In just 27 short years, our partners have helped us become one of the leading universities in Russia and a recognized institution on the global stage.’
He stressed that this is only the beginning. ‘Today we have around 400 partner universities across the world, and our international student enrolment includes 4,500 students from more than 100 countries. Every year we hire more than 60 international faculty members.’.
After Rector Yaroslav Kuzminov’s opening remarks, Vice Rector Ivan Prostakov summarized for the guests some of HSE University’s key milestones over the last two decades. Though initially founded as a hub for new economic theory and research, he explained, ‘Now we are not only a full-fledged interdisciplinary university, but many of our faculties and programmes rank in the world’s top 100 subject rankings – these fields include economics and econometrics, sociology, social sciences and management, mathematics, and more.’
The Vice Rector outlined the key areas that comprise HSE’s future development agenda: digitalization, interdisciplinarity, entrepreneurship, expertise and networking, and internationalization.
