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On October 26, the first International Space Games will kick off in Moscow. Teams from Russia, China, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mexico, Pakistan, and Uzbekistan will take part in this new engineering project. Participants will live and work in a simulation of a real space mission. HSE University is acting as project initiator and operator.

The HSE Academic Council has reviewed the results of the recently completed admissions campaign. Around 21,000 students have been admitted to state-funded and fee-paying undergraduate, specialist degree, and master’s programmes.

On September 26 and 27, 2026, students from the HSE Lyceum, university students, staff and alumni from HSE University campuses in Moscow, St Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Perm, and HSE Online took part in the 2026 Moscow Marathon. Over the two days, HSE participants completed the 10 km and 42.2 km races, competed in the student relay, cheered on runners along the course, and met up at the HSE tent in the finish area.

Researchers from the Centre for Language and Brain at HSE University, in collaboration with international colleagues, have shown that by the end of first grade, children have already developed an important eye-movement skill for reading. Like adults, they quickly adapt the length of their saccades—rapid eye movements—to the length of words in sentences. However, children’s gazes tend to land near the beginnings of words, whereas adults tend to target areas closer to the centres of words. The more fluent the reading, the closer saccadic targeting is to the word centre. The study findings have been published in the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology.

The AI and Digital Science Instituteat HSE Faculty of Computer Science (FCS) presented a multi-agent hardware–software system that analyses the electrical parameters of industrial equipment and helps detect signs of malfunction at an early stage. The solution is designed to shift maintenance from repairing equipment after failures occur to predicting its condition and scheduling interventions before an emergency arises. The system was presented at the 4^th Professional Conference for the IT and Engineering Community in the Oil and Gas Industry. 

The navigation system, developed by specialists from the Laboratory for Intelligent Unmanned Systems at HSE MIEM, is designed to search for missing people and allows the unmanned vehicle to autonomously execute route missions without satellite navigation. The Autonomous Search competition is notable for its comprehensive verification of actual working technologies. Out of 50 applications submitted, 15 were admitted to the qualification round, and four teams advanced to the finals.

HSE University’s online course ‘Experimental Linguistics’ has won an award from the Global MOOC and Online Education Alliance (GMA). The university’s initiative was the only Russian programme to receive an award in the competition.

The HSE Faculty of Computer Science has summarised the results of the first admissions campaign for its new bachelor’s degree programme in Design of Intelligent Robotic Systems (DIRS). A total of 53 students were admitted to the first year. We spoke to some of the first-year students to find out why they decided to build their future careers in this field, what their first few weeks of study have been like, and what projects they are already working on.

HSE University has announced the results of its International Academic Cooperation (IAC) competition for joint fundamental research projects. Five projects have received full funding, while six more have been awarded partial funding. The research teams include scholars from Brazil, South Africa, China, India, and Oman. Alexander Balyshev, HSE University Vice President, shared details of the 2026 IAC competition winners.

The Faculty of Urban and Regional Development (FURD) at HSE University and the municipal government of Kunshan, China, have agreed to develop expert and educational cooperation between Russian and Chinese cities. The partnership will involve exchanging professional expertise and specialists, designing and implementing professional development programmes, and jointly studying urban development practices. FURD is also expected to contribute its expertise to Kunshan’s efforts in territorial planning and the development of new industrial zones.