Internship

The practice of students of educational programs of bachelor's and master's programs of the Faculty of Social Sciences is carried out in accordance with (Regulations on Practical Training of Students under Core Bachelor’s, Specialist and Master’s Programmes at HSE University).

There is practical training in the curriculum, along with academic disciplines. Practical training consists of such elements as “Internship” and “Project Activity”

To register your practical training, you can use the following instructions:

1. Clarify at your Study Office who your internship supervisor from the Higher School of Economics and the timing of the internship.

2. You should discuss the following questions with the internship supervisor from the HSE:

• in which organization will you do the internship (in the departments of the National Research University Higher School of Economics, in an external organization on the territory of the Russian Federation, in an external organization outside the Russian Federation);
• what tasks you will need to complete during practical training;
• what is the form of reporting and terms of its submission.

If you are doing an internship at HSE departments, you should solve all issues with the internship supervisor. You need to independently contact the head of the HSE department that you were recommended to agree on an internship.

Next, you need to fill in the spreadsheet created by your Study Office and file an internship report.

If you are doing an internship in an external organization on the territory of the Russian Federation, you need to complete the following steps:

1. Fill in the spreadsheet created by your Study Office;

2. Contact the Center for Practice and Project Activities cfiapa@hse.ru (20 Myasnitskaya st., room M-20 420) to sign contracts for practical training.

3. In the response letter, you will receive instructions regarding your next steps.

If you are doing an internship in an external organization abroad, you need to complete the following steps:

1. Fill in the spreadsheet created by your Study Office;

2. Fill in the templates of two documents: a offer letter and an attachment to the offer letter and send them by mail to the Center for Practice and Project Activities cfiapa@hse.ru. To help in the preparation of the offer letter, we attach the instruction^ Instruction for preparing the offer letter.

3. Wait for an email from an employee of the "Center for Practice and Project Activities" with a offer  letter, registered and signed by the Dean.

4. Submit the document to your organization.

5. An acceptance letter must come in response. Often, students prepare the acceptance letteron their own, which the organization prints on its letterhead, the head of the organization signs and stamps it. To help in the preparation of the acceptance letter, we attach the instruction: Instruction for preparing the acceptance letter.

6. Provide the Center for Practice and Project Activities by e-mail cfiapa@hse.ru with the signed acceptance letter with the seal of the organization.

Afterwards, your practical training contract is officially signed. All you have to do is complete an internship and prepare reporting documents for the internship supervisor from the Higher School of Economics.

Practical training in the form of projects is also formalized through the exchange of letters.

Please contact the Center for Practice and Project Activities to register contracts in advance! At least 3 weeks before the start of the practice/project!