Science & Innovations for Sustainable Development
Sustainable Development in the University’s Strategic Projects
Strategic projects are large-scale, interdisciplinary educational, scientific, innovative, and communicational initiatives aimed at advancing expertise and achieving unique academic and applied results in rapidly growing fields of studies.
HSE University performs these projects within the Priority-2030 Academic Leadership Programme framework to enhance national and global economic, social and technological development. All strategic projects contribute to the achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Monitoring Sustainability & Making Recommendations
Being an expertise centre, HSE University accumulates data and tracks changes in numerous economic, social, and technological fields affecting sustainable development nationally and globally.
- The Human Capital Multidisciplinary Research Centre has accumulated more than 80 research projects focused on the analysis and forecasting of human capital, employment, the activities and roles of different social groups, and the effects of climate change on human capital development.
- Monitoring of education markets and organisations
- The Institute for Social Policy monitoring projects (surveys) for household income, expenditure and social resilience
- The Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge monitoring projects and data books
Key Centres of Competence
- The Centre for Corporate Sustainability Management (ESG Centre) of the HSE Graduate School of Business focuses its research and consulting efforts on the development of corporate ESG-transformation strategies, as well as the identification and accumulation of best practices.
- The Institute of Ecology focuses its interdisciplinary research and analytical efforts on protecting the environment and ensuring human well-being in the era of climate change.
- The Climate Change Economy Lab conducts interdisciplinary research on the effects of climate change on economic growth, socio-economic challenges arising due to climate change at national and global levels, and regulatory initiatives aimed at mitigating effects of climate change.
- The Faculty of Urban and Regional Development conducts research and analytical projects devoted to ‘green’ construction and provides continuous education programmes in this field.
Sustainable Development in Fundamental and Applied Research
1. UNESCO Chair on Future Studies
2. The Institute for Agrarian Studies research and other projects in agricultural technology and food security
3. The Institute of Education conducts interdisciplinary research into the development of early childhood education, primary and secondary education, and higher education in Russia and the post-Soviet countries. It also monitors the economics and the infrastructure of educational systems.
4. The International Laboratory of Intangible-driven Economy projects
5. The Corporate Finance Centre research on the effects of corporate governance on corporate financial performance in the context of ESG transformation
6. The Laboratory for Anti-Corruption Policy research on anti-corruption policies and tools
- Research outcomes are presented in publications.
International Academic Cooperation
Starting from 2024, the Joint Basic Research Project ‘International Academic Cooperation of HSE University’ is being implemented by conducting an open competition of research initiatives implemented by HSE University scientists in cooperation with colleagues from foreign universities.
- In 2024, 7 research projects were supported and launched by HSE University scientist in cooperation with researchers from Belarus, Brazil, China, Vietnam and Uzbekistan.
International Satellite Laboratory
A pioneering Satellite Laboratory for Social Entrepreneurship has been launched by HSE University in cooperation with the UTM Malaysia. This laboratory performs research and expert activities dedicated to comprehensive analysis of social entrepreneurship across diverse and dynamic regions in cooperation with society, NPOs, corporate and public sectors. The researchers of the lab regularly publish the International digest on Social entrepreneurship and conduct academic conferences and expert sessions on social entrepreneurship.
Since 2024, the University Panamericana (Guadalajara, Mexico) has started collaborating with the laboratory.
Innovations for the Achievement of SDGs
- BioMedTech is a business incubator that provides support for biomedical start-ups run by HSE students and staff