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• I am a Professional: Qualification Round Starts with Over Half a Million Participants in the Game

  …versities and companies. Unlike other academic competitions out there, what this new-generation contest evaluates isn’t the participants’ erudition but their professional knowledge and skills. Students with the best results will be rewarded with easy enrollment into Master’s and PhD programs of Russia’s top universities, an internship at major companies such as Ya…

  23.11.2018

• KonFest 2018: Experts on Development of K2B Market

  …Bit agency is the university's partner, and the businessmen will participate in the upcoming Open Day at ITMO University. This year's KonFest was dedicated to the K2B (Knowledge to Business) sector and brought together speakers from most different fields: government officials, business coaches, heads of advertising agencies and such. Among the speakers were also M…

  23.11.2018

• ITMO Master’s Students Win National Lighting Design Competition

  …lity of life. Since 2016 we have practiced and developed a problem-focused approach. At its core is the idea of solving relevant issues through the use of a wide range of knowledge, methods, and technologies. We can achieve the best results when we use a single, universal educational process and facilitate mutual understanding and collaboration between an interdiscip…

  22.11.2018

• Beautiful Physics: ITMO Scientist Wins Award of Wikipedia’s Science Photo Competition

  …anslate the beauty of science Semyon Smirnov’s scientific interests lie in the field of terahertz radiation, its generation and application in different fields. His cutting-edge research on polarization characteristics of terahertz radiation generated by dichromatic femtosecond filament formed the foundation of his PhD thesis, which the young scientist defended in…

  22.11.2018

• Top Russian and European Firms Present Concept Designs for ITMO Highpark

  … satellite-city Yuzhny in the Pushkinsky District of St. Petersburg. An area of approximately 100 hectares will be made home to an ITMO campus, business incubators and cutting-edge production facilities, research centers, dormitories, staff housing, and educational buildings for Master’s and PhD students. It is expected that by 2027 ITMO Highpark will host 3,600 stud…

  20.11.2018

• Alfa-Bank Scholarship Winners on How to Innovate the Most Innovative University Out There

  …es into several groups. The first consists of innovations targeting the education process itself: I’d make the philosophy course non-obligatory and introduce a subject on knowledge-sharing into everyone’s curriculum instead. It would allow students to share the information they consider useful to each other. The second group of innovations includes changes in ITMO’s …

  19.11.2018

• ITMO Robotics Team Wins Gold at World Robot Olympiad 2018 in Thailand

  …ks it and dispatches it on a quadcopter which delivers the berry to the consumer. According to Igor Lositsky, what makes the project stand out is its use of the cutting-edge, Soft Robotics technologies, such as a soft capture mechanism and a system capable of independently growing all kinds of plants with the help of neural networks and real-time databases. It…

  19.11.2018

• National Technology Revolution 20.35: Universities as Driving Force of Change

  …hange dynamics has been linked with the overall shift in the approach to universities as academic establishments. Traditional models of education, learning, and producing knowledge that have been in place for the past 200 years have lost their effectiveness; what today’s world needs instead is skills. That’s what led us to the realization that to pioneer real-world m…

  16.11.2018

• ITMO Students Take First Place in Physics Competition

  …What was the competition like? Denis: Our coach Leonid Gerchikov chose the most difficult and interesting tasks for us to practice on, which was very useful. The knowledge we acquired during our first year at ITMO also came in handy. At the competition, we were offered different kinds of tasks from various fields of physics. The only thing I didn’t like was that t…

  15.11.2018

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: November 17-18

  …m degustation and a special live music concert bombarding visitors with all the festive feels. Such Christmas cheer is to last all the way to March 17 thanks to the cutting-edge cooling system keeping the ice in good nick even in above-zero temperatures. An hour of ice frolics will cost you from 150 to 450 roubles depending on the time of the day you decide to swi…

  14.11.2018