Elena Iarskaia-Smirnova, the head of MLISI, attended the International Research Seminar on "Global Welfare Research" and the International Conference on "Social Welfare Policies and Services in the Post-Pandemic Era" in Taipei, Taiwan. The events were organized by the Department of Social Work of the National Taiwan University on the initiative of Professor Julia Wong on October 24-26, 2024.

Leading SIR IL researcher Victoria Konstantinovna Antonova and SIR IL research intern Arseniy Buchatsky spoke at the 35th anniversary of Samara University's sociological faculty on Friday, November 15, 2024, at the All-Russian scientific and practical conference with international participation, "Sociology and social work: modern educational and research practices."

The "Center for Interdisciplinary Research of Human Potential" at NCMU, the MP Sociology of the Public Sphere and Digital Analytics, and the ML Social Integration Research hosted guests on November 8. The interested audience was shown the short documentary film "4:30" (directed by V. Ovchinnikov) as part of the International Film Festival about the lives of people with disabilities "Cinema without Barriers" organized by the "Perspektiva." The film touched on topics of inclusive culture of Russian society and the lives of people of the "silver age".

On September 25, 2024, at a joint meeting of the School of Sociology and the International Laboratory for Social Integration Research of the HSE, the pre-defense of Md. Reza Habib’s PhD dissertation took place

On August 27 to 30, the 16th Conference of the European Sociological Association was held in Porto, Portugal, in which our Laboratory staff took part.

The IV International Scientific Conference "Interaction. Integration. Inclusion: labyrinths of meanings and horizons of possibilities" has recently concluded. This year, 17 sections and a round table meeting were organized, which brought together more than 400 participants interested in the study and development of socio-cultural integration from different countries and regions of Russia.

On July 27, 2024 Roman Abramov, professor, a leading researcher at our laboratory, gave an open lecture on the topic "Imagination about society and social order in science fiction". The lecture was organized as part of the summer school on social anthropology "sbor—ka".

The study was conducted as part of a joint project with the program of professionally organized individual mentoring for children and adolescents in Russia “Big Brothers Big Sisters”.

On June 27, 2024, Elena Iarskaia-Smirnova and Daria Prisyazhniuk took part in the meeting of the Interdepartmental Strategic Project and Analytical Session “Evidence-Based Social Policy: Implementation of an Evidence-Based Approach at the Federal Level and Conditions for Effective Replication of Practices”.