Physics beyond the standard model at HERA

This talk is divided in two parts. In the first one we discuss the signals of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model through the production of (e) over tilde (q) over tilde. The second part is devoted to contact terms. The bounds on the mass scale Lambda obtained from atomic parity violation experiments and from LEP are reviewed. Afterwards, we show that the excess of events at high Q(2) observed at HERA could be explained in terms of these contact terms.