USUE signed a Memorandum on creating a network interaction "Network interaction of education and business as a new form of regional economic development". The main task of the Association is to create a unified educational space. Training of high-demand specialists, combining resources of education and business, science and industry.?

USUE rector Yakov Silin took part in a joint meeting Of the Department of Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences (UN RAS) and the Free economic society of Russia (WEO of Russia) on the topic: "Drivers of economic growth: human capital, science, and technology".

More than 150 residents of besieged Leningrad were honored guests of the Ural state University of Economics, where a solemn ceremony was held to mark the 76th anniversary of the complete liberation of the Northern capital from the blockade by the German-fascist invaders. The event was organized By the Department for youth policy of USUE, the Sverdlovsk regional public organization of war veterans and pensioners, with the support of the Ministry of social policy of the Sverdlovsk region.

January 24, the Governor of the Sverdlovsk region, Yevgeny Kuyvashev presented prizes to the best professors, associate professors and university teachers in the region. The award ceremony was traditionally timed to the Russian Students’ Day.

The winners of the regional stage of the Russian national Award “Student of the Year 2019” of the Sverdlovsk Region were awarded at the Ural State Economic University. 8 students of the Ural State Economic University entered the finals of the regional stage.