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Gennady ‘Tourist’ Korotkevich: My First Defeat Only Made Me Want to Win More
…They published it… on page 13, with a photo of Zenit goalkeeper Yuri Lodygin on the cover, who didn’t even have his Master of Sports title yet. Since 2010, I’ve been trying to promote the idea of creating a federation of competitive programming: first on a national level, then internationally. Lidia Perovskaya: Gennady, one of the Sobaka.ru award’s categories …
06.06.2019
Education For Everyone: Global Experts Discuss Future of Open Education
… development of national OER policies. UNESCO’s goal is to encourage decision makers in governments and educational institutions to invest in the systemic production, use, and promotion of open educational resources. As the organization notes, the use of such resources in higher education improves the quality of education and teaching while reducing costs. UNESCO aim…
05.06.2019
This Weekend in St. Petersburg: June 8-9
How Cerevrum Inc Uses VR to Boost Social Skills
…ke knowing how to follow safety regulations. We, on the other hand, improve employees’ social and behavioral skills by explaining to them how to talk to customers, how to gain promotions, and more. What would you say is the reason for such an interest in your product? We don’t just take existing courses and convert them to VR. One of our unique features …
04.06.2019
Smoke and Mirrors: ITMO’s Lighting Designers to Present Projects at Light Nights in Gatchina Festival
…t and shadow the artists create with the simple tools of architectural lighting and flecks of light on water, which, reflected off the walls of the surrounding screens, subtly prompt spectators to take a selfie. “A photograph is a reflection of the person it was taken of. We’d like our installation to capture the reflections of people in the environment that isn…
03.06.2019
InnoCamp: How Russian and Finnish Students Reinvent Old Spaces
…e were fully and completely responsible for the creation of a successful and, most importantly, functional marketing strategy. And if you take into account that the product we promoted is completely new and has no established market, you could say we practically created our own market. And since we were working with the European market, we faced some difficulties in …
31.05.2019
ITMO University Partners with Art&Science Day Skolkovo
…entists and artists in Russia and the US. In his turn, Dmitry Ozerkov, head of the Department of Contemporary Art at the State Hermitage Museum will expand on innovations as a promising art method, focusing on technological art related to the field of hi-tech (including big data, machine learning, robotics, bio) and analyzing the specifics of working with hi-tech for…
29.05.2019
Summer Festivals in St. Petersburg
…-21, 300th Anniversary of St. Petersburg Park The 2019 VK Fest will be the 5th installment of the Russian social network’s massive open-air festival, and its organizers are promising to go all out on this momentous occasion. The event’s program is still a secret, but judging by the past years’ lineups – which included many notable artists, experts, and celebrities…
28.05.2019
St. Petersburg European University’s Nikolay Rudenko on Fixing the Divide Between Tech and Humanities
…he result of a great deal of effort and mental work of intellectuals. The concept emerged parallel to the industrial revolution and the lifestyle it presented. One of the most prominent symbols of the 19th century are the World Fairs where each nation boasted its technical achievements as well as the uniqueness of its culture. They are characteristic of the time when…
28.05.2019
Cybersport, Innovative Healthcare and Retail Solutions: Startups Present Their Projects at iHarvest Angels Pitch Session
…re than five successful enrolment campaigns, and now we’re working with projects on an individual and continuous basis. Over the years, we have accumulated a large set of very promising projects, which will only expand in the future thanks to our well-coordinated attraction system. And we know that a lot of these projects need investments to fulfil their best potenti…
28.05.2019