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A team of researchers has studied ice-containing sediment on the East Siberian Arctic Shelf. The researchers proved that the melting of underwater permafrost is caused not only by the warming of sea water, but also by migrations of its salt ions (mostly NaCl). The HSE News Service reports on this and other studies conducted by the HSE Institute of Ecology.

The RLMS-HSE team in partnership with the Human Capital Multidisciplinary Research Center continues the series of training videos on working with monitoring data. The new introductory video covers most of the frequently asked questions. It will help to understand the main questions regarding the survey sample, navigate the structure of the questionnaires and the structure of data files. The video examines the main identifiers and constructed variables and draws the special attention of users to missing values.

The RLMS-HSE team in partnership with the Human Capital Multidisciplinary Research Center continues the series of training videos on working with monitoring data. The new introductory video covers most of the frequently asked questions. It will help to understand the main questions regarding the survey sample, navigate the structure of the questionnaires and the structure of data files. The video examines the main identifiers and constructed variables and draws the special attention of users to missing values.

TheHuman Capital Multidisciplinary Research Centre and HSE University, in cooperation with the World Bank, held the conference ‘New Challenges of Demographic, Epidemiological and Medical-Technological Development: Search for New Models of Healthcare Development.’ The participants discussed whether the healthcare system was prepared to face the pandemic, how the latter affected lifespans and excess mortality rates, whether we can trust statistics, and what we should do to see ‘the light at the end of the pandemic tunnel.’     

On December 15, Yerevan hosted the second "Metsamorian Readings– - an international conference dedicated to the problems of the development of museum-reserves. Within the framework of this forum a joint on-line report was presented by the head of the Centre for Regional Programmes of Social and Cultural Development of the Institute for Social Policy Pavel Shulgin, and the leading expert of the center, Olga Shtele "Museums-reserves as the basis of the cultural framework in Russian regions".

On December 15, 2021 the International Conference organized by the Human Capital Multidisciplinary Research Center and the National Research University Higher School of Economics in partnership with the World Bank was held

IOS-IZA-HSE University International Labor Seminar was held on November 30, 2021.

Associate Professor of the Faculty of Geography and Geoinformation Technologies Alexander Sheludkov and the leading researcher of the Institute of Geography of the Russian Academy of Sciences Raisa Gracheva took part in the 1st International Joint Congress of the European Society for the Conservation of Soil (ESSC) and the European Society of Ecological Cycles (EURECYS) (November 10-14, Italy). The aim of the congress is to create a wide European network of interdisciplinary research on the interaction of man and nature.

Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC), which developed the Penn World Tables, Maddison Historical Statistics, EU KLEMS and WIOD, and the HSE University Centre for Productivity Studies (CPS) are working together to intensify research on the welfare of post-Soviet countries in accordance with the agreement for scientific and educational co-operation between the HSE University and the University of Groningen.