From 16 to 29 September 2019, Ksenia Gonchar from the Higher School of Economics visits the University of Bremen. Ksenia Gonchar is a leading researcher at the Institute for Institute for Industrial and Market Studies (IIMS) at HSE and has been working with Jutta Günther and her team for many years. Ksenia Gonchar's research stay is supported by the DAAD within the framework of the "Eastern Partnerships" programme.

During her research stay this year, Ksenia Gonchar visits the consortium meeting within the framework of the project "Mod-Block-DDR", which took place on 16 September 2019 at the Technical University of Berlin. In the future, she will work as a cooperation partner in subproject 1 on the analysis of the productivity gap in East Germany. Participation in the consortium meeting enabled her to introduce herself to the research network and then to discuss joint research work with the team of subproject 1.