Project work of students of the Faculty of Economic Science

• The research supervisor can be a supervisor or one of the co-supervisors of the Project. A thesis cannot be prepared outside the Project.
• Thesis supervisor must be a permanent HSE worker (from faculty or research team). A temporary worker (employed via a short-term contract) cannot be a thesis supervisor.
• If a supervisor does not have a research degree, such a thesis topic needs a co-supervisor with a research degree.
• The topic must be agreed in both Russian and English, no matter which language will be used in the thesis. 
• Only 2-year Master and 4-year Bachelor students must fix the topic in SmartPro since thesis is an obligatory element only for them. Other students, who are not graduating this year (2-3-year Bachelor and 1-year Master), do not have a thesis as a separate curriculum element, therefore they do not need to fix any topics in SmartPro.
• Students who write a collaborative thesis (in a group) must have the same topic submitted to SmartPro (see instructions below).
• Students submit their topics in SmartPro as “initiative” topics.
• Only students from the same year of study (but possibly from different educational programs) can write a group thesis. 
• Students from the joint program with the FEFU and NEFU write only individual papers. Students from the joint program with the University of Tyumen can write group theses with other students from the same program.
• Students from the MA program “Strategic Corporate Finance” can write their theses only in English (though they still need to write a topic in both languages since Russian topic goes to the supplement to the diploma which is in Russian).

• Instructions for students: how to submit an initiative topic (including group theses) 
• Instructions for research supervisors: how to confirm students' applications 

• If you submitted your thesis topic application via SmartPro system, you should apply for changing your topic/supervisor via the same SmartPro system: online instruction (use browser translation)
• If you submitted your thesis topic application not via SmartPro system (with the help of your study office), you should apply for changing your topic/supervisor using a separate online-form prepared by the study office (this link is for Master students only)

If a student wants to change a project, he/she needs to go to the FES Project system, choose "All projects", select the project he/she likes, click on its name and submit a transfer request through the special box. When both supervisors (current and future) accept student's requst, the project will be changed.

Students without a project can submit only 1 application through the FES Project system, but the supervisor may either agree or refuse, or simply not see the application. Therefore, it is necessary to contact the supervisor of the project you are interested in via mail before submitting the application.

Students who need to complete two projects during the academic year need to send an email to fes-projects@hse.ru. In this email, write your mailbox address different from @edu.hse.ru, since you will need to register the second account in the System and therefore we will send instructions how to do this.