December 15, Ural State University of Economics (USUE) hosted a roundtable "A foreign patient: problems and prospects for medical services exporting in the post-pandemic period." The roundtable was held under the project "Development of medical services export in the context of COVID-19 pandemic." The organizer of the roundtable was the USUE Institute of Continuing Education.

April 20-23, 2021, USUE will host XI Eurasian Economic Youth Forum "Russia and regions of the world: the embodiment of ideas and economy of opportunities." The organizers of the forum continue to work on building a constructive dialogue of the expert community on the development of science diplomacy and discussing hot issues of international cooperation. 

The rectors of Ural State University of Economics and the University of World Economy and Diplomacy under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Uzbekistan signed an agreement on cooperation between the universities in the field of education and research. The signing ceremony took place online through the Zoom platform.

In December, when visiting the USUE territorial Access Center in the Crimea, the USUE Rector visited Simferopol gymnasium №1 named after I.V. Kurchatov. Together with the Vice-Rector for Social Work, Roman Krasnov, and the director of the Sverdlovsk region Chess Federation, Albert Stepanyan, Yakov Silin met with the director of the gymnasium Irina Grebennikova.

On December 7, International Civil Aviation Day, students of Ural State University of Economics met with the Hero of the Russian Federation, the captain of the Airbus A321 aircraft, a Ural Airlines passenger plane, Damir Yusupov, who made a successful emergency landing near Zhukovsky on August 15, 2019.