Students & Alumni: Professional Development and Well-being
HSE University aims to cultivate and apply the high creative potential of its students and alumni, engaging them in research projects, technological and social entrepreneurship, while also boosting the University’s human and social capital.
Expanding students’ career opportunities:
- Introducing mandatory career guidance courses and digital career services for Bachelor’s and Master’s students.
- Fostering alumni's digital competencies and indicating their proficiency with various digital technologies.
- Involving alumni in HSE University’s activities as lecturers, tutors, corporate partners-employers, experts and investors.
Developing technological entrepreneurship and involving students in R&D activities:
- Conducting incubation and acceleration programmes through HSE University’s Business Incubator (HSE Inc), involving students in applied project work: by 2030, 15% of students will be pursuing individual business trajectories.
- Creating a University-wide system for cultivating an entrepreneurial culture and competencies, innovative practices among students and academic staff.
- Promoting competitions for the scientific and technical business projects - the HSE{Tech}Cup and HSE{Business}Cup, as well as a competition of students' startups - the HSE Startup Cup.
- Including research projects in students’ curricula, expanding opportunities for employment at the University’s labs and research centres.
- Creating new tools for the development of students' academic and research skills.
- Holding competitions for students' R&D projects and supporting their best efforts.
Students’ sustainability projects, ‘service learning’ and well-being:
- Creating an HSE Volunteer Centre in each campus, holding student field trips (‘Rediscovering Russia’ project).
- Involving students in providing aid to various social groups in partnership with key NGOs: by 2025, 50% of students will take part in service-learning projects.
- Ensuring students’ physical and mental health, maintaining psychological stability, resilience and mindfulness.
- Covering students’ demand for the social support.
Success Story: Science Republic and Student Research Paper Competitions
HSE University, as a research institution, aims to support students’ R&D initiatives, while also cultivating them as highly motivated and professional academics. The most important tools used to achieve this objective are Science Republic and Student Research Paper Competitions.
New Practice: Startup as a Graduate’s Thesis
Since technological entrepreneurship on the part of students is one of the key pillars for the University’s innovative development, we aim to integrate such activities into various educational tracks. One of the instruments for this is our minor programme ‘Startup as a Graduate Thesis’.
Nikita Anisimov
HSE University Rector