Within two full weeks the summer school participants will have the opportunity to gain a deep understanding of Russia within the Eurasian space, analyzing it from historical and contemporary, theoretical and practical perspectives. The students will be engaged in thoughtful discussions with Russian and Post-Soviet studies experts gathered in St. Petersburg and visit landmarks of special significance to Russia’s past and present.

On December 2, the Russian Science Foundation published the results of the competition in the priority area "Conducting Fundamental Scientific Research and Exploratory Scientific Research by Small Individual Scientific Groups".

Thesis title: Socialist Valuation of Nature: Political Economy, Environmental Regulation, and Coal Mining in the Soviet Union.

The CIANO training project is aimed at providing representatives of different disciplines with the opportunity to learn from each other's experience and jointly understand the stages of preparing complex publications. This involves a review of contemporary scholarly literature based on a formalized analysis of large arrays of publications.

Kirill Borisov, Professor of the Faculty of Economics, and his colleagues have published a new article "Cooperating with yourself" in the journal "Games and Economic Behavior". By the way, one of the authors of the article is Mikhail Pakhnin, himself a graduate of the Faculty of Economics.

Today, on November 11, the 2024 UN Climate Change Conference opened in Baku. At the first meeting, Nikita Lomagin, Director of the ENERPO Center, took part in the panel discussion of the Russian pavilion.

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.