During the visit, the Rector of the European University Vadim Volkov and the Executive Director of the Center for Russian Studies of the East China Normal University, Professor Liu Jin installed a plaque on the Center for Eurasian Studies opened on the premises of the European University. 

Artem Nedoluzhko, scholarly director of the Laboratory of Paleogenomics at the European University, and Professor Antonio Baeza of Clemson University (USA) have organized a special issue for young researchers devoted to evolutionary genomics.

On September 19, 2024, a delegation from the University of Manila (Universidad de Manila, UDM) arrived at the European University at St. Petersburg on an official visit

On September 15, in what has become a tradition, a team from the European University took part in the "Pushkin – St. Petersburg" marathon. This is the oldest such race in Russia; 2024 marked the 97th time it has been run.

On August 30 at 8:25 AM the rector of the European University Vadim Volkov reached the eastern summit of Mount Elbrus (elevation 5621 m).

The samples were collected as part of a research project of the European University at St. Petersburg. The project’s goal is to study and reconstruct details of the genetic history of Scythian-type nomads in the Tuva Republic’s “Valley of the Kings”.

The autopsy of the museum specimen will reveal what this ancient predator ate, what bacteria made up its microbiota, and what parasites infected it.

The European University at St. Petersburg has investigated which countries and universities produce globally sought-after knowledge about Russia, and on the basis of more than thirty thousand academic articles, has developed a scientometric rating of universities and research institutes.

The analytical center “AC-Expert” has published its ranking of Russian universities. This year, The European University has risen in all three profile areas.

The Center for Eurasian Studies is being created on the basis of the scientific interests of ECNU and EUSP, with the aim of expanding the scope of cooperation between leading educational institutions of China and Russia in the humanitarian, sociological, economic and other academic fields.

Researchers from the European University at St. Petersburg, the Institute of the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the State Hermitage Museum conducted the first series of experiments on DNA isolation from historical samples in the clean rooms of the paleogenomics laboratory located at the Solopharm pharmaceutical plant.

An article by Alexei Miller, a professor in the Department of History, and Alexander Kamentsev, a graduate student in the same department, has appeared in the journal Communist and Post-Communist Studies. The article is titled "The Cossacks of Southern Russia in 21st-Century Memory Politics".

An updated chapter of the International Encyclopedia of Public Health has been published. Co-authored Anton Barchuk, director of EUSP’s Institute for Interdisciplinary Medical Research, the chapter is devoted to cancer screening.

On January 18 Boris Maksimovich Firsov, Soviet and Russian sociologist, Doctor of Philosophy (1979), a founder (1994), the first rector (1995-2003) and honorary rector (since 2003) of the European University at St. Petersburg, passed away at the age of 94.

EUSP Associate Professor of Economics Igor Sloev and a co-author have published an article titled "Investment and Innovation in Emerging Versus Advanced Market Economies: a Schumpeterian Approach."

European University researchers Artem Nedoluzhko and Fyodor Sharko as lead authors have published an article in the prestigious international journal European Journal of Human Genetics (Q1, impact factor: 5.2). Together with Russian colleagues, they analyzed nuclear DNA from the remains of five representatives of the Koban archaeological culture.

This year, the Swedish National Bank's Alfred Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded to the American economist Claudia Goldin of Harvard University for "advancing our understanding of women in the labor market."

On November 16, 2023, Moscow hosted the conference "Nature-based Solutions: What Can Russia Offer the World?" organized by the European University at St. Petersburg with the support of the Andrey Melnichenko Foundation.

Svetlana Pankova, a researcher at the Laboratory of Paleogenomics of the European University and curator of the Department of Archaeology of Eastern Europe and Siberia of the State Hermitage Museum, spoke at the international scientific conference "Singing Arrows of Maodun": Hunnu from obscurity to empire", dedicated to the 75th anniversary of Sergey Minyaev’s birth (1948-2020).

The surprising result was that mathematical modeling shows conclusively that for a society to reach consensus, people need to communicate more often with people with views that differ from their own.