XXVI April International Academic Conference named after Evgeny Yasin at HSE University

Dear colleagues,

National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE University) is pleased to announce this Call for Papers for applications to present scholarly reports at the XXVI April International Academic Conference named after Evgeny Yasin (XXVI April Conference).

The XXVI April Conference is scheduled to take place in Moscow on April 14–17, 2026.

The Conference programme is structured around the following five academic themes:

1. Economics;
2. Human Capital and Society;
3. Instrumental Methods and Models;
4. Foresight Research;
5. International Research.

We are currently accepting applicationsto present reports at the Conference in the following thematic sections:

Economics:

• Macroeconomics and Economic Growth;
• Methodology of Economic Sciences;
• Theoretical Economics;
• Firms and Markets;
• Finance and Banking;

Human Capital and Society:

• Social Policy and Healthcare;
• The Demographics of Labour Markets;
• The Political Process;
• Sociology;
• Psychology.

Instrumental Methods and Models:

• Instrumental Methods in Economic and Social Research;
• Management.

Foresight Research:

• Russia’s Growth Scenarios Amid a Rapidly Changing External Environment;
• New Models and Methods for Technological and Socioeconomic Forecasting;
• International Symposium on “Foresight Research Amid Rapid Global Change.”

International Research:

• International Relations;
• The World Economy;
• Asian and African Studies.

This Call for Papers will run until Tuesday, December 16, 2025, which is the final deadline for submitting applications to present reports at the XXVI April Conference. Russian citizens wishing to participate in the Conference as an attendee, without presenting a report, should submit their applications by April 2, 2026. Foreign citizens who wish to attend without presenting a report must apply by March 2, 2026.Please note that the Programme Committee will have sole discretion to determine the final composition of Conference participants, including non-speaking attendees.

Events on the Conference programme will be held either in Russian or in English. Certain discussion sessions will be conducted in a bilingual format with simultaneous (conference) interpretation provided.

The Conference will be conducted primarily in a face-to-face format. However, in exceptional cases, the Programme Committee will have the sole prerogative to permit certain speakers and attendees to participate in a virtual, online format.

Howtosubmitan individual application to present a report

To be eligible for presentation at a specific discussion session, a submitted report must contain findings resulting from original academic research, which was performed using advanced research methodologies. Each speaker will have 15minutes to present their report.

Applications to present reports under this Call for Papers can be submitted online via the HSE University conference system by Tuesday, December 16, 2025.

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

• The abstract must state the research topic, as well as the surname, name, and patronymic (if applicable) of the author, and their institutional affiliation;
• It must further provide a clearly stated overview of the research topic and problem being addressed, as well as the extent and means by which it has been studied to date, the research methodology applied, the key findings of the research, and a substantiation of the relevance and scientific novelty of the research;
• The abstract format should be either Word or RTF;
• The abstract should have a character count between a minimum of 3,000 characters and a maximum of 7,000 characters;
• For Russian-language reports, the accompanying abstracts must be written in both Russian and English (including the report title, name of author, and the text of the abstract), while English-language reports require abstracts in English only.

A single speaker may present one individual report and a maximum of two co-authored reports.

How to 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 Tuesday, December 16, 2025, to present their reports collectively at the same discussion 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 note that 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 discussion sessions will be put together for each thematic section. Each discussion session will last for 90 minutes. Each report presented during a given session should last a maximum of 15 minutes. The Programme Committee may consider proposals for the content of specific sessions during the expert application review stage and when compiling the final Conference programme.

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

Applicants will be informed of the affirmative decisions to include their reports in the programme of the XXVI April Conference, or to decline their applications, as soon as the respective expert review results are available, but no later than February 25, 2026.

The Programme Committee retains the prerogative to make adjustments to the working language of a given discussion session after completion of expert reviews of specific applications to present reports.

Authors of reports selected for presentation at the Conference must confirm (RSVP) their participation and pay their registration fee by Friday, March 20, 2026, inclusive. As well, by this date they also must upload their report presentation slides in English, indicating the author’s name, the report topic, and the theses of their presentation, via their personal account in the HSE University Conference system. An accepted applicant must RSVP to confirm their intent to participate, upload their presentation, and pay their registration fees as mandatory prerequisites for the inclusion of their report in the final version of the programme.

Payment of registration fees

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

See the “Conference Fees” tab in the “Participants” section of the Conference website for detailed information.

The following participants will be exempt from the registration fee:

• Undergraduate and PhD students enrolled at Russian Universities, as well as the students of foreign partners of HSE University (upon presentation of their student ID and completing the registration process both in the system and onsite);
• HSE University staff members (upon presentation of their employee ID and completing the registration process both in the system and onsite);
• Participants who have received special personal invitations from the Conference Programme Committee, including honorary academic presenters, experts, moderators, roundtable speakers, discussion participants, and other special Conference invitees, honoured guests, and partners.

Registration fees must be paid:

for presenters by March 20, 2026.

for attendees by April 9, 2026.