Project work of students of the Faculty of Economic Sciences

• Thesis 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) with an academic degree. A thesis can (but does not have to) have a co-supervisor, he/she can be a permanent or a temporary HSE worker (employed via a short-term contract) with or without an academic degree.
• The topic must be agreed in both Russian and English, no matter which language will be used in the thesis. Please check the rules for writing the thesis topic in Russian and in English.
• Only students from the same year of study (but possibly from different educational programs) can write a group thesis. Students who write a collaborative thesis (in a group) must have the same topic matching up to punctuation and spaces.
• Students from the MA program “Strategic Corporate Finance” and students from the "Economic research" specialisation ("Economics and Economic Policy" MA program) 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 can be updated, so check the latest version

• Students: instruction for submitting an initiative thesis topic application
• Research supervisors: instruction (in Russian) for confirming the thesis topic application, instruction (in English)

Project transfer deadlines for the current academic year:

• graduating (final-year) students: no later than two months before uploading the final qualifying thesis text
• non-graduating students: no later than two months before the end of the academic year

Process for project transfers:

• Project transfers during modules 1-2: Requests for transfers to another project are submitted through the project work system. To do this, the student must click "All Projects," select the project of interest, and submit a transfer request in the special box. If the student has accepted the technical task, the transfer request must be accepted by both the current and future supervisors. If the technical task has not yet been approved by the student, only the future supervisor must accept the transfer request.
• Project transfers after module 2, but no later than the transfer deadlines specified above: Students submit a written transfer request. To do this, the student must fill in an application (application template) and have it signed by the current project supervisor, future project supervisor and program academic supervisor (the deputy dean's signature is not required). After receiving three signatures, the student submits a paper version of the application to the project office or sends a scanned copy to the project office by email.

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.