Sber Opens Educational Space at HSE University
On September 12, 2025, a new Sber classroom was unveiled at HSE’s Pokrovsky Bulvar campus. The venue will host lectures and project seminars, and in their free time, students will be able to use it as a co-working area or as a platform for their own events—from film screenings to intellectual debates.
The opening day featured a student festival where guests tested smart devices, took VR tours of a digital home, and met teams from various Sber divisions. Students learnt about AI-related professions, received career advice from experts, and discovered joint educational programmes run by the bank and HSE University.
Dzhangir Dzhangirov, Senior Vice President and Chief Risk Officer at Sber, gave a lecture on how artificial intelligence algorithms help enhance the bank’s decision-making system.
Natalia Dudina
‘We are creating spaces that reflect Sber’s cultural code to open doors for students—to new opportunities, new connections, and to self-discovery. I believe that this new classroom will give rise to outstanding teams and projects,’ said Natalia Dudina, Senior Vice President, HR Senior Managing Director, and Head of Culture at Sber.
Irina Martusevich
‘Sber has been a strategic partner of HSE University for many years,’ noted Irina Martusevich, HSE Vice Rector. ‘Together, we have been implementing research, student, and educational projects. With the opening of the Sber classroom on Pokrovsky Bulvar, another major joint initiative—this time an infrastructural one—has been completed. We are confident that this modern and comfortable space will encourage productive student work, foster creative thinking, and become a new focal point for the development of our partnership with Sber.’
The partnership between Sber and HSE University began in 2017 with the launch of the Master’s programme in Financial Technologies and Data Analysis. In 2022, the Joint Department with Sberbank ‘Financial Technologies and Data Analysis’ was established at the Faculty of Computer Science, and in 2024, the AI360 Bachelor’s programme—designed for future researchers and developers in artificial intelligence—was launched in collaboration with Yandex.
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