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• Photographers Discovering Beautiful Abandoned Russia

  … unique places with captions in English. Projects @nowandthenrussia – here you’ll find a comparison of Russia of the past and Russia of the present through old and new photographs @roadgo.ru – a project dedicated to the creation of a map with unusual places to visit in Russia @jacksonaleksandr – “irishman in Russia”; recently launched a pr…

  18.01.2021

• Three Monsters of Thinking: ITMO Holds a Lecture on Evidence-Based Policy As Part of Hard Core Philosophy Project

  …of information at our disposal and a variety of tools to manipulate opinions. It is crucial to have autonomous ways to navigate this world, evaluate any situation, detect fake news, and so on,” says Darya Chirva. The second trend, according to Darya, is a growing general interest in philosophy with its unbiased view of the world. Philosophy can question the trad…

  18.01.2021

• How ITMO Helps School Students Become Inventors

  …o make people’s lives easier. Some things more important for future inventors, in my opinion, are curiosity, perseverance, and a good attention span. While coming up with a new idea may not be hard, it’s just the first step, and you still have to find ways to bring this idea to life. This is when many give up as they face the first challenges. That’s why it’s cruc…

  18.01.2021

• ITMO Students Can Receive Funding to Participate in Online Educational Events

  …Even though most events were moved online, ITMO students still can participate in the competition for partial funding support and receive new skills from home. They can apply for various short-term (less than one month long) events, such as online schools, seminars, championships, etc. ITMO University can reimburse up to 70% of their expenses. The competition is avai…

  15.01.2021

• CES 2021 Presents: High-Tech Face Masks, Transparent Screens and Flying Cars

  …se company UBTech and the CLOi UV-C bot by LG. Expandable smartphones and transformer laptops Over the past few years, smartphone manufacturers have been looking for new revolutionary technologies that could turn the market around: Samsung is trying to bring back flip phones, but so far rather unsuccessfully, and LG regularly starts a rumor about expandable…

  15.01.2021

• Winter Activities to Try in St. Petersburg: Newbie's Guide

  …ng. If you’re a lucky owner of a pair of skates, search for hockey areas near your house called ‘korobka’ to skate for free and without time limits. Where to try: New Holland Island, Sevkabel Port, Okhta Park, Laplandia Park Tubing For kids and adults who miss the excitement of riding down slopes and forgot the taste of snow, tubing may litera…

  15.01.2021

• ITMO students Took Home Prizes at the Regionals of the Professional Skills Championship

  …he task before each session, I already roughly evaluated the various criteria, imagined how many points I could get. I looked at what was more difficult, what was easier, and knew in advance what tasks I would perform immediately, and what I would do only if I had time remaining. That's probably why I was able to take first place. This experience showed what I am …

  14.01.2021

• Digital Promotion: How to Do It Right

  …The webinar was arranged by ITMO Accelerator and summarized by ITMO.NEWS. When to launch ads The creation of almost any product includes the following stages: Idea (something cool and unusual that came to your head) Concept (after you’ve check out the market and competitors, evaluated the viability of the initial idea, and came up with the firs…

  14.01.2021

• New Project Defense Format: Study Physics and Improve Soft Skills

  …g along. The main thing is that students will carry on with their project activities in the next semesters, too. So, this will also be useful for their future work.” ITMO.NEWS met with students who successfully completed the course to learn more about their projects and thoughts on the importance of soft skills in teamwork. Ivan Karpunov Our project wa…

  14.01.2021

• Student Spotlight: Julianne Gomez, Cuba

  …house, people always spoke in both languages – Russian and Spanish. That caused me some difficulties because when I was a child, I did not understand Russian. The only word I knew and used almost daily was: "отпусти", something like "let go", when my brother was trying to mortify me. Even today we laugh at remembering it. It was the work of fate that I learned Russia…

  14.01.2021