04.07.2017
On June 26-28, St. Petersburg State University held the PRIMO research workshop “How to practice global IR?” More infromation...
15.05.2017
On May, 5 PRIMO Fellow Martin Pioch held Workshop on the WTO and the role of Emerging Economies in Hamburg. More infromation...
27.04.2017
“The EU and BRICS in the International Trade System” – the name of the round-table discussion held at the Faculty of Economics of Saint Petersburg State University on the 21st of April, 2017 within the framework of the International Economic Symposium, where by Russian and foreign experts discussed contemporary challenges in the economic development of the EU and BRICS. More information...
More information in the presentations of key speakers of the round table:
17.03.2017
Trainee researcher of the World Economy Department, PRIMO Fellow Martin Pioch did research trips to the WTO, Geneva, and Russian think-tanks in Moscow. More information…
25.01.2017
Secondment at World Economy Department by Ali Lantukh, ESR Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. More information...
09.12.2016
On Friday 2nd December 2016, St Petersburg State University hosted a round table on “Prospects for Russian-Latin American Economic Cooperation in Contemporary Geopolitical Conditions”. More information...
14.07.2016
PRIMO Fellow from Middle East Technical University (Ankara, Turkey) has just terminated her 3-months secondment at the World Economy Department, St. Petersburg State University. More information…
08.06.2016
Miklos Lazar, Marie Curie Research Fellow from the University of Oxford, has undertaken an academic secondment at St. Petersburg State University.
06.05.2016
Interview of Martin Pioch, PRIMO Fellow, about his research work at St. Petersburg State University is available in Russian and in English.
25.04.2016
Prof. Sergei Sutyrin, Dr. Alexandra Koval, and Martin Pioch participated in the PRIMO panel at the International Studies Association 57th Annual Convention, in Atlanta, USA, in March. More information...
13.11.2015
PRIMO Researcher Martin Pioch is now doing his internship in the European Council on Foreign Relations, London, UK. He with the Wider Europe team prepared the material on the Minsk Agreement. More information…
11.11.2015
PRIMO scientists in charge Dr. Alexandra Koval and Prof. Janis van der Westhuizen as well as PRIMO early stage researcher Martin Pioch participated in the international conference organized by PRIMO associate Department of World Economy, the Faculty of Economics of St. Petersburg State University, Russia. More information…
12.10.2015
PRIMO Fellow Martin Pioch and his scientist in charge Dr. Alexandra Koval, from St. Petersburg State University hold both presentations in the panel ‘BRICS Perspectives’ at the International Forum ‘Russia and Ibero-America in a Globalizing World: History and Modernity’ in St- Petersburg, held on October 1–3 2015. More information…
01.07.2015
On July 7-11, 2015 the Second PRIMO Annual Conference will take place in Hamburg. Martin Pioch, PRIMO Researcher at St. Petersburg State University, will present his research.
19.06.2015
On June 1-5, 2015 Dr. Alexandra Koval and Martin Pioch, PRIMO Researcher at St. Petersburg State University, participated in the PRIMO Conceptual Workshop at the Fudan University. At the workshop, Martin Pioch presented his research progress. The presentation of Martin's research is available here...
07.05.2015
PRIMO Methods Training Workshop was successfully organized in St. Petersburg State University. More information is available on PRIMO website...
16.04.2015
Prof. Jun Zhang, Director of the Institute of Economics and China Center for Economic Studies, Fudan University, Shanghai, China will hold a public lecture on ‘THE LONG-TERM ECONOMIC GROWTH IN CHINA: POLICY/INSTITUTIONAL REFORMS PERSPECTIVE’ on April 22, 2015 (16.00-17.30) at the Faculty of Economics, SPbU (Chaikovskogo st., 62, room 415). The lecture is organized in the framework of the Marie Curie Initial Training Network programme «Power and Region in a Multipolar Order» (PRIMO). The working language is English.
Prof. Kappel Robert, Senior Research Fellow, GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies, Hamburg, Germany will hold a public lecture on ‘THE ECONOMICS OF RISING POWERS’ on April 23, 2015 (13.00-14.30) at the Faculty of Economics, SPbU (Tavricheskaya st., 21, room 93). The lecture is organized in the framework of the Marie Curie Initial Training Network programme «Power and Region in a Multipolar Order» (PRIMO). The working language is English.
15.04.2015
On April 20-24, 2015, Department of World Economy, Faculty of Economics, St. Petersburg State University, in the framework of the Marie Curie Initial Training Network programme "Power and Region in a Multipolar Order” (PRIMO) will organize the Methods Training Workshop: ‘The role of quantitative data in qualitative research on PRIMO’. The PRIMO programme unites universities from Brazil, China, Germany, India, Portugal, Russia, South Africa, Turkey and the UK, as well as non-academic institutions and develops innovative research training in the field of International Relations, in particular with respect to the growing importance of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa (BRICS) in international politics and the global economy. The workshop programme…
02.01.2015
On April, 25, 2015 the World Economy Department will held the PRIMO conference sesson on "Emerging powers in the global economy: quantitative and qualitative approaches" at the International Economic Symposium. More information...
24.11.2014
On November, 11, 2014, Martin Pioch, PRIMO Researcher at SPbU, made a presentation on his research at the meeting of the World Economy Department, Faculty of Economics, SPbU. See the presentation…