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• Climbing Mountains and Doing Research: How ITMO Students Spent Their Summer

  Every year, ITMO’s most active students go to different parts of the world in order to do internships at the world’s biggest companies and universities, or explore new territories as volunteers. Student internships have long become not some boring compulsory labour but rather enticing adventures that can give you unique experience. In an interview for ITMO.NEWS, students speak about this year’s most interesting internships and volunteering projects.

  06.09.2018

• “People Need You!” Junior: Social IT Projects for Schoolchildren

  ITMO University has recently hosted the third schoolchildren’s contest of social projects “People Need You!”. During the contest students learned how to develop social projects and promote their ideas in social media. As a result, many projects were implemented, some of them in the field of IT. The winners told ITMO.NEWS about their ideas.

  01.06.2018

• “People Need You!” Project Wins Presidential Grant

  Last week, the “People Need You!” social project contest developed by ITMO University’s Student Volunteer Center won the Presidential Grant Contest. The project has been conducted for five years already; “People Need You!” is a  countrywide full-cycle educational program: the participating teams go all the way from a concept for a social project to its implementation, from finding partners to seeing the first results. As part of the program’s practical and educational modules, participants gain theoretical knowledge and practical skills in implementing socially significant programs and contribute to the level of social assistance in their region. Andrei Zlenko, Director of ITMO’s Center for Social Design and Entrepreneurship, speaks about the project’s history, and what awaits its participants in the future.

  04.12.2017

• Volunteering in Summer: from Mountains of North Ossetia to the Tropics of Bolivia

  Volunteering is a great way to travel while also doing some good. Summer is approaching and wouldn’t you like to work in Peru, Caucasus or subarctic Canada instead of spending your days in bed watching TV shows? We’ve put together some of the many opportunities for volunteer workers all over the world.

  02.06.2017

• Volunteering Unlimited: Students from Russia's 35 Regions Presented Their Projects in Yagodnoe

  This year, ITMO University was the organizer of the federal People Need You! contest. For the first time in the project's history, the semi-finals were conducted as a summer camp in the Yagodnoye. The camp’s participants presented 90 projects in six categories to an expert jury. The event was conducted with support from the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation and the Gazprom Neft Company.

  26.05.2017