Announcements

25^th YASIN (APRIL) INTERNATIONAL ACADEMIC CONFERENCE

ON ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

Dear colleagues,

HSE University is pleased to announce a call for applications to present academic reports at the 25^th Yasin (April) International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development(hereinafter, the “25^th Yasin Conference” or the “Conference”).

All events on the 25^th Yasin Conference programme will take place in Moscow from April 15 till 18, 2025.

The Conference programme will focus on the following key academic themes: 

·        Economics; 

·        Human Capital and Society; 

·        Instrumental Methods and Models in Management and the Social Sciences; 

·        Foresight Research; 

·        International Relations. 

Applications to present academic reports at the Conference should be submitted in accordance with the following thematic sections:

Under the academic theme of Economics: 

·        Macroeconomics and Economic Growth; 

·        Methodology of Economic Sciences; 

·        Theoretical Economics; 

·        Firms and Markets; 

·        Finance and Banking. 

Under the academic theme of Human Capital and Society: 

·        Social Policy and Healthcare; 

·        Demography and Labour Markets; 

·        Political Processes; 

·        Sociology; 

·        Psychology. 

Under the academic theme of Instrumental Methods and Models in Management and the Social Sciences: 

·        Instrumental Methods in Economic and Social Research; 

·        Management. 

Under the academic theme of Foresight Research: 

·        Russia’s Growth Scenarios in the Context of a Rapidly Changing External Environment; 

·        New Models and Methods for Technological and Socioeconomic Forecasting; 

·        International Symposium on “Foresight Research Amid Rapid Global Change”. 

Under the academic theme of International Relations: 

·        Ideas and Civilizations in a Multipolar World; 

·        The World Economy; 

·        Asian Studies. 

The deadline for filing applications to present academic reports at the Conference is Monday, January 20, 2025.In addition, applications will also be accepted to register for the Conference as an attendee: from Russian citizens – by Thursday, April 10, 2025; from foreign citizens – by Monday, March 10, 2025. More information is available in the Participants section of the Conference webpage at: https://conf.hse.ru/en/2025/application.

The events on the Conference programme will be held in Russian or English. Certain discussions will be held in a bilingual format with simultaneous interpretation provided.

The Conference will take place mainly in a live, face-to-face format. However, in exceptional cases, the Programme Committee retains the right to invite certain speakers and participants to join discussions online.

How can I apply to present an individual academic report at the Conference? 

Reports delivered under specific thematic sections must describe the results of original research performed with the use of contemporary methodologies. Report presentations should last from 15 to 20 minutes.

The final deadline for online filing of applications to present reports via the HSE University Conference system is Monday, January 20, 2025.

All applications must be accompanied by detailed abstracts. Please see the requirements for formatting academic report abstracts below: 

·        The abstract must clearly state the issue at hand, as well as the level at which it has been analysed, the selected research methods, and the key findings, as well as their novelty and validity; 

·        The abstract format should be either Word or RTF; 

·        The character count should be between 3,000 and 7,000 characters; 

·        For Russian-language reports, the accompanying abstracts must be written in both Russian and English, while English-language reports require abstracts in English only. 

Speakers may present one individual report and a maximum of two co-authored reports. 

How can I submit a group application? 

A team of authors filing individual applications, which are duly registered in the HSE University Conference system, may file a request with the Programme Committee, by Monday, January 20, 2025, to present their reports at the same session. For this purpose, they must submit a group application form via the HSE University Conference system.

Group applications should meet the following requirements: 

·        from at least two up to a maximum of five reports to be delivered during the given session; 

·        no more than two reports presented by representatives of the same organisation; 

·        all individual applications of group members must be registered in the Conference system.
 

Please notethat an application to present a single report with co-authors is deemed an individual application and will not be considered as a group application.

Once applications have been submitted for the respective thematic sections of the Conference, individual sessions will be put together for each thematic section. Each session will last for 90 minutes.  The Programme Committee may take into consideration proposals concerning the content of specific sessions during the expert review of applications stage and in the process of drawing up the final Conference programme.

Expert reviews of applications 

Applications will be selected in three stages as follows: 

1.      First, all applications that do not meet the aforementioned formatting criteria will be excluded; 

2.      Second, expert assessments of report abstracts will be performed, with a specific focus on verifying the novelty and validity of findings (an application may be reassigned to another thematic section by decision of the head of the given expert group); 

3.      Third, the Programme Committee will make its final decisions on the inclusion of reports in the Conference programme based on the expert assessments.

Results of the expert review and confirmation of an applicant’s participation 

Applicants will be informed of the decisions to include their reports in the programme of the 25th Yasin Conference, or to decline their applications, as soon as the respective expert review results are available, but no later than by Wednesday, March 19, 2025. 

Authors of reports selected for presentation at the Conference must confirm (RSVP) their participation by Wednesday, March 26, 2025 (inclusive), via their personal account in the HSE University Conference system, and then, by Friday, April 4, 2025(inclusive), upload their presentation slides in English to their personal account. This process is a mandatory prerequisite for including reports in the final version of the programme.

Registration fees 

The Conference registration fee for both presenters and attendees is RUB 3,000.

The following participants will be exempt from the registration fee: 

·        Students and PhD students from any university (upon presentation of their student ID and completing the registration process); 

·        HSE University staff members (upon presentation of their staff ID badge and completing the registration process); 

·        Participants who were individually invited by the Conference Programme Committee (e.g., honorary academic presenters, moderators, speakers at roundtables, discussion participants, and other Conference guests).

Detailed information on how to pay the registration fee is available in the Registration Fee Payments section of the Conference webpage at: https://conf.hse.ru/en/2025/fees. 

Applications will be accepted to register for the Conference as an attendee: from Russian citizens - by Thursday, April 10, 2025; from foreign citizens - by Monday, March 10, 2025. More information is available in the Participants section of the Conference webpage at: https://conf.hse.ru/en/2025/participant/.

The events on the Conference programme will be held in Russian or English. Certain discussions will be held in a bilingual format with simultaneous interpretation provided.

The Conference will take place mainly in a live, face-to-face format. However, in exceptional cases, the Programme Committee retains the right to invite certain speakers and participants to join discussions online. 

Registration fees 

The Conference registration fee for both presenters and attendees is RUB 3,000.   

·        Students and PhD students from any university (upon presentation of their student ID and completing the registration process); 

·        HSE University staff members (upon presentation of their staff ID badge and completing the registration process); 

·        Participants who were individually invited by the Conference Programme Committee (e.g., honorary academic presenters, moderators, speakers at roundtables, discussion participants, and other Conference guests).

Detailed information on how to pay the registration fee is available in the Registration Fee Payments section of the Conference webpage at: https://conf.hse.ru/en/2025/fees.

Attention!

According to the Organizing Committee of the conference, due to the events of March 2024,
the 25th YASINSKAYA (APRIL) INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE ON ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
as a mass event has been cancelled.

24^th YASIN (APRIL) INTERNATIONAL ACADEMIC CONFERENCE ON ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

Dear colleagues, 

HSE University is pleased to announce a call for proposals to take part in the 24^th International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development (hereinafter the “24^th Yasin Conference” or the “Conference”).  

The Conference will be held jointly with Russian corporations, as well as research and consulting institutions.

The key events of the 24^th Yasin Conference will be taking place in Moscow from April 4 to 14, 2023.

At the 24^th Yasin Conference, reports on new research results will be presented and discussed. These reports will be selected through reviews of proposals (the requirements can be found below). Furthermore, the Conference’s programme traditionally features expert discussions of the most pressing economic, social, internal and external issues, involving state officials and leading Russian and foreign experts, as well as honorary reports by distinguished academics from all over the world and various associated events. 

The Conference’s events will be held in Russian or English. Certain discussions will be bilingual and will feature simultaneous translation services.

With a view to involve participants from Russia’s various regions and all over the world, as well as bearing in mind that certain epidemiological restrictions  still may be in effect, the 24^th Yasin Conference will be held in a hybrid format. Most sections and other events will be held face-to-face, but there is an option for some speakers and other participants to join streaming sessions online.

For the 24^th Yasin Conference, as was in previous years, a call will be announced for proposals to support participation in the Conference of young academics from Russia’s regions. 

The sections of the 24th Yasin Conference will be focused on the following areas:

·        Arctic Studies; 

·        Public Administration, Local Self-government and NGOs; 

·        Demography and Job Markets; 

·        Instrumental Methods in Economic and Social Research; 

·        Macroeconomics and Macroeconomic Policy; 

·        International Relations; 

·        Management; 

·        Methods in Economics Research; 

·        Global Economy; 

·        Science and Innovation; 

·        Education; 

·        Political Processes; 

·        Law in the Digital Age; 

·        Healthcare; 

·        Regional and Urban Development; 

·        Smart City; 

·        Social and Economic History; 

·        Social Policy; 

·        Sociocultural Processes; 

·        Sociology; 

·        Theoretical Economics; 

·        Financial Institutes, Markets and Payment Systems; 

·        Firms and Markets; 

·        Digital Economy. 

We kindly invite you to join the Conference as a listener.

To submit your application as a listener, please, register at the HSE University’s Conference system until March 31, 2023:http://conference.hse.ru

Conference fees. 

Listeners have to pay conference fee to attend the events of the XXIV Yasin (April) International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development. The amount of fee is RUB 2,000 (by March 1, 2023) or RUB 2,500 (after March 1, 2023).

The detailed information about the Conference is available at the official web-site: https://conf.hse.ru/

   

Registration to attend the Yasin Conference with presenting a paper has started 

Dear participants,

We are glad to announce that online registration as individual session speaker at the Yasin Conference has started.

Participants are invited to submit extended abstracts of their research papers for presentation at the Conference sessions. Submissions will be accepted till November 14, 2022.

Detailed information is available here.

We invite you to participate as individual session speakers of XXIV Yasin (April) International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development!

Best regards,
Programme Committee of the Yasin Conference, HSE University

23rd YASIN (APRIL) INTERNATIONAL ACADEMIC CONFERENCE ON ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

HSE University is pleased to announce a call for proposals to take part in the 23^rd International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development. Following the decision of the University’s Academic Council, starting from 2022, The conference will be called the Yasin Conference in honor of Evgeny Yasin, the Honorary Academic Supervisor of HSE University, who launched the Conference, which has become a major annual academic event in Russia in the social sciences (as we know it now).

The key events under the 23^rd Yasin (April) International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development (23^rd Yasin Conference) will take place in Moscow from April 4 until April 8, 2022.

At sections under the 23^rd Yasin Conference, reports will be presented and discussed on the results of recent academic research, selected through reviews of proposals (the requirements for which can be found below). In addition, the Conference will include expert discussions on the most pressing issues of economic and social policy with the participation of leading Russian and global specialists and public officials, as well as honorary reports presented by academics from all over the world and various associated events. The Conference’s events will be held in Russian or English; certain discussions will be bilingual and supported by simultaneous translation.

We invite you to register as a listener of the XXIII YIAC. Detailed information is available at https://conf.hse.ru/2022/

Call for papers

 for a Special Issue of the Journal “Public Administration Issues”

 The journal “Public Administration Issues” (https://vgmu.hse.ru/en/, ranked in Scopus Q3 and in Web of Science Q3) is happy to put out a call for papers 
for the upcoming English-language Special Issue:

 Comparative Performance Management in Government: International Cases.

Guest Editor: Professor Tobin Im, Dean of Graduate School of Public Administration, Seoul National University.

Co-editors: Professor Alexey Barabashev, President of Graduate School of Public Administration, Higher School of Economics (Moscow),
and Assistant Professor Jesse W. Campbell, Incheon National University, South Korea

Theme of Special Issue: 

• What field(s) of government function(s) are the most advanced in performance management reform and why?
• What are examples of unintended consequences of performance reforms, and what general lessons can be drawn from these?
• What are the difficulties and problems of implementing the performance management into the practice of governance?
• What are the most advanced national and regional performance assessment projects?
• Are these practices disseminated, and are there any obstacles for their successful dissemination?

Important Dates and Information: 

 Guidelines for authors (requirements for manuscripts) are: https://vgmu.hse.ru/en/

XXI April International Academic Conference

on Economic and Social Development

April 6-10 2020, Moscow

On April 6-10, 2020 in Moscow, National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE University), with the support of the World Bank, will be hosting the XXI April International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development. The Conference's Programme Committee will be chaired by Professor Evgeny Yasin, HSE University's academic supervisor. 

The Conference features a diverse agenda concerning social and economic development in Russia. The Conference programme will include presentations by Russian and international academics, roundtables and plenary sessions with participation of members of the Government of the Russian Federation, government officials, business representatives, and leading Russian and foreign experts. 

The XXI April International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development once again invites participants from the international academic and expert community!
 

Information about previous conferences can be viewed here: https://conf.hse.ru/2019/ 

PROPOSAL REQUIREMENTS AND SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:

Papers presented at the Conference should contain the results of original research based on up-to-date research methodology. The Conference Programme will be developed based on accepted proposals.

WORKING LANGUAGES of the conference: Russian and English.

TIME LIMITS of the conference are the following ones: 

PARTICIPATION FEE:

Information about the participation fees, payments deadlines and procedures will be available on the respective section of the Conference’s website.

The Conference Organizing Committee

(Contact:  interconf@hse.ru)