HSE Seeks New Ideas for AI Agents: Initiative Competition Launched
HSE University is inviting researchers and lecturers to present concepts for new digital products based on artificial intelligence. The best projects will receive expert and technological support. Applications are open until December 19, 2025.
An HSE open ideas competition has been launched to form new teams for the Strategic Technology Project (STP) ‘Multi-Agent Platform of AI Solutions for Industry-Specific Tasks’ under the Priority 2030 programme. Participants may include researchers, lecturers, and university staff interested in creating digital products powered by artificial intelligence.
Elena Odoevskaya
‘Artificial intelligence, as a cross-cutting technology, is an essential part of digital product solutions. The uniqueness of our project lies in bringing together the expertise of researchers in AI and in sector-specific fields to form unified product teams. Even in the first year of the STP’s implementation, we managed to launch several AI agents on a single platform, and we do not intend to stop there. I invite our researchers, experts, and developers to join the project team,’ noted Elena Odoevskaya, HSE Vice Rector.
The STP develops an ecosystem of industry-focused AI agents and the infrastructure for their development, testing, and implementation. The platform already makes it possible to significantly reduce the timeframes and costs of creating new solutions: teams use ready-made modules, a shared data library, and integration mechanisms, allowing them to focus on domain logic and user value. The developed AI agents interact with one another, forming a unified technological space.
The competition is aimed both at established teams with experience in AI, software development, and data analysis, and at initiative groups with deep subject-matter expertise but without a technical background. The main requirement is that the idea must be aimed at creating a digital product for real users—university staff and students, or external clients.
The creators of selected projects will receive access to the platform for developing and hosting AI solutions, consultations from interdisciplinary experts, support in forming product teams, and guidance from the STP leadership.
Applications may be submitted here until December 19, 2025 (website in Russian).
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