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• John Kuti: English Teacher on Languages, Digital Literacy and Cultural Capital

  …ing environment. I'm interested in the way "digital literacy" can develop among the users. The website runs on the open source software Moodle (a free and open-source learning management system) and I try to administer the project in the same "open source" way. In the future, I would like to develop cooperation with student programmers and designers if they have idea…

  19.12.2019

• Different Approaches, One Goal: International Week of Social Entrepreneurship at ITMO University

  … positive changes into the social sphere, but because it’s more difficult to obtain state support in Russia we have to think about the money, too,” explained Yuri Kuporosov, a manager at ITMO University’s Student Initiatives Support Department.  The idea of the UCLA students focused on social rehabilitation of the US war veterans. “Many veterans don’t h…

  19.12.2019

• New Life for Bakery Waste: First Results of Russian-Finnish-Italian Project Wastebake

  … “In my opinion, the problem that the Wastebake is attempting to solve is a very topical one for each of our countries. Each country has its own issues concerning bakery waste management, but the fact remains that there is bakery waste, and it is harmful both economically and environmentally. I think that this problem can only be solved together by researchers and re…

  18.12.2019

• ITMO Graduate and Owner of Chili Marketing Agency Konstantin Khomchenko: Do What You Love and Love What You Do

  … enjoyed working with people, organizing stuff. Already when working at ITMO’s rock club, I was good at establishing connections, organizing other people’s work, doing product management and so on. So I decided to go in the opposite direction and started thinking about launching my own business. However, I did not dare to take the risk back then and found a job in sa…

  17.12.2019

• Making the Workspace Safer With VR

  …n the simulator gives various tasks and pinpoints the possible mistakes,” explains Kirillov.  Changing behavior Sometimes we not only need to teach the employee how to manage a piece of equipment, but also have to get them used to following the safety regulations. Here, VR can also come in handy, because it demonstrates what happens if the employee treats the…

  16.12.2019

• ITMO Student and Sirius & Rosneft Joint Program Moderator Yulia Shutova: Don’t Say Something Is Impossible, Just That It’s Needed to Be Done

  …ess, and you understand that that’s it, the work’s gone out of the window,” shares Yulia.  To do the impossible As a result, in one week the teams of young programmers managed to solve the tasks they’d been set and create a working prototype. It’s too early to think about their implementation into real-life processes; this requires some further work. But, say…

  13.12.2019

• ITMO Graduate and World Champion in Beach Tennis Shares His Story

  …w things were with student sports. When I was a first-year student, there wasn’t a tennis team at ITMO University, and I built it bit by bit myself. It was challenging, but we managed to establish a student club. Some of our team members didn’t know how to play, and we had to teach them, and it was hard to build a team of six players. But this notwithstanding, we

  12.12.2019

• Professional Reboot: Empower Program at ITMO University

  …ject to the jury, made up of Igor Kuprienko, head of ITMO’s Center for Project Development and Fundraising, Olga Medvedeva, an associate professor at the Faculty of Technology Management and Innovation, Vyacheslav Fedorov, an entrepreneur and founder of the Go2Sport project, and Zoya Mishunina, one of the lecturers for Entrepreneurship. “My students were very mo…

  11.12.2019

• ITMO’s Andrey Zlenko Wins the Form of Kindness Contest

  …nko, an ITMO staff member and head of the university’s Student Volunteer Center. He received the award for his contribution to the development of a citywide system for project management in the social sector, as well as hosting of four Donor Days, the From Heart to Heart charity festival for collection of funds for animal shelters, and an international ecologic camp,…

  11.12.2019

• ITMO University Graduate Alexandra Bystrova: You Can Always Find Your Identity in a New Field, City or University

  …First testing software as an intern and then as a technical writer compiling project documentation in English. After some time I got offered a position of an assistant quality manager and processes manager, which led to me combining these two roles at the company. Over these three years, I was only working part-time, for 20 hours a week…

  09.12.2019