October 24-25, 2019
Faculty of Economics, St. Petersburg University
The conference, devoted to current problems of the international economic relations development, highlighted the experience and results of research conducted under the guidance of leading international scientists in Russian universities and research organisations.
October 7, 2019
CGES, St. Petersburg
The seminar was organized as a platform to exchange experience on doing scientific research in flood-prone communities in Russia and Europe. The seminar was divided in three parts.
April 8, 2020
Renaissance St. Petersburg Baltic Hotel
In the framework of both the German-Russian thematic year of university cooperation and science and the German Week, representatives of German and Russian universities discussed together with exchange students and alumni German-Russian cooperation in the higher education sector.
April 6, 2020
Social Club
The ‘Falling Walls Lab’ is a worldwide event that takes place every year where young scientists present innovative research ideas within three minutes. There are semi-finals in over 60 cities in the world and each semi-final winner wins participation in the international ‘Falling Walls Lab’ final in Berlin. During the German Week 2019 there was one of the semi-finals in St. Petersburg where 18 young scientists introduced their research breakthroughs in front of an expert jury on a stage. Verena Molitor from the CGES team was part of the jury this year. The research ideas were very interdisciplinary and diverse and ranged from medicine, over systems engineering, life sciences to human rights protection.
December 2-3, 2019
National Technical University ‘MISiS’, Moscow
In December, the Centre for German and European Studies (CGES/ZDES) participated in the mid-term conference of the ‘German-Russian Year of Higher Education Cooperation and Science 2018 – 2020’.