About our Centre

The Centre for Leadership and Volunteer Work is a big community of passionate students, alumni, and employees of HSE University. The Centre has been extremely helpful since its inception in the midst of the pandemic, when it aided HSE employees and the elder generation from the Moscow Longevity social initiative. Moreover, the Volunteer Centre initiatied the Digital Assistant project.

Today, the Centre's volunteers support the university and the city by helping to organize major festivals and conferences, Open House Days, and by volunteering at events held by our partners from non-profits, government institutions, and socially responsible businesses. They teach financial literacy to residents of psycho-neurological institutions, run educational trips for schoolchildren, and publish content about charity and volunteering on social media.

Furthermore, we oversee student-led philanthropic organizations: Green HSE, HSE for Children, HSE Outreach, Open Your Eyes (Otkroy Glaza), and Blagotvortsy (The Benefactors). We also foster a community of leaders within HSE's volunteer movement, developing and conducting trainings, workshops, and retreats for our volunteers.

You can even be a part of the Centre online! Our volunteers help pupils from all over Russia to build their knowledge of multiple subjects from the school curriculum. We are certain that volunteering is cool, interesting, and important for HSE University as well as for the volunteers themselves.

Throughout its existence, the Centre for Leadership and Volunteer Work has recruited volunteers for the Moscow Fashion Week, international forums and festivals, FICC, SandlerFest, the Moscow Marathon and other races in Moscow, the State Historical Museum, Open House Days, Yasin (April) International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development, and for projects of charitable organizations such as «Zhivi Seichas» (Live Now), «Vera», «Luchshiye Druzya», «Vverkh», «Starost v Radost», «Nochlezhka», «Dom s Mayakom» (Lighthouse Hospice), and many others!

We are confident that volunteering is exciting, rewarding, and important, both for the university and for the volunteers themselves. Join us! With us, doing good deeds is simple and systematic.