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• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: December 29-31

  …he festive period with all of its ups and downs (plaintive creations by Bach always pop in my head when I’m sweeping away the remnants of a yet another Christmas bauble my cat managed to break; I need help I know). Tickets cost 700 rubles on the day of the concerts and 500 rubles if booked in advance here. Have a great weekend! …

  26.12.2018

• Entrepreneurial Culture: A Look Into the New General Course at ITMO

  …Project Management is a new course aimed at developing the students’ professional skills. The course itself is very practice-oriented, with students working on real cases under the supervision of business experts. Its main goal is to explore the various project types, their lifecycles, and specifics of development, and how to determine their readiness for operation i…

  26.12.2018

• HAKORA: Building a Business in the Field of AR

  …ses. We became a full-fledged company this summer. Whom does your team consist of? Oleg Borovskiy: For now, we have eight members: two programmers, a designer, a project manager, a strategy officer, an accountant and us two as CEOs. Oftentimes, we involve third-party specialists in our work, UI designers, for example. For every project, we gather a team that po…

  26.12.2018

• Mind Maps, Open Spaces, and Cooking Contests: ITMO Staff Visit UK’s Oxford Brookes University

  …rating ideas. “At Oxford Brookes, they have their own technique for working with mind maps,” says Olga Tikhomirova, an associate professor at the Faculty of Technological Management. “The students map out their chains of thought and learn about their thought process while solving problems. It motivates them to work in teams and come up with unusual solutions.” …

  21.12.2018

• ITMO Launches New Master’s Program ‘Bioeconomics and Resource Management’

  …l UNEP report. According to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), “green” technologies fulfill the following tasks: general environmental management (waste management, water, and air purification, land reclamation, etc.); production of energy from renewable sources (solar energy, biofuel, etc.); …

  20.12.2018

• ITMO University in 2018: A Year in Review

  …s “Digital Culture,” “Entrepreneurial Culture,” “Creative Technologies,” “Critical Thinking,” and “Soft Skills,” comprising of Emotional Intelligence, Negotiation and Conflict Management, Team Management and Personal Effectiveness, among others. They’re part of the curriculum for all students regardless of their major. Why is this such …

  18.12.2018

• Andrei Maiboroda, Writer and Entrepreneur: If You Work a Lot, You Are Destined to Succeed

  …ugh to people’s brains. You need to understand what the problem is, and how to communicate the solution. This is why I prefer the term used by Ichak Adizes, one of the leading management researchers: I call myself an organizational therapist. Most problems in companies have to do with one of the two: systems or people. Sometimes, the employees are great, but t…

  18.12.2018

• University of Twente’s Stefano Stramigioli: Robotics Is About Giving Machines Life

  …it, the rest will take care of itself. And where do you find inspiration in your everyday work? In new things, in learning. There are three aspects to my work: research, management, and teaching. I love to teach and to inspire others, and I think that inspiring, not explaining, is the key to teaching. After all, there are plenty of other sources you can learn f…

  17.12.2018

• InnoJam "TimeHack": Real Options Theory and Machine Learning

  …ntal seminar that makes use of design thinking methodology. Its goal is to use SAP's products for creating innovative applications that have to do with using Big Data for time management and motivating developers. We have to note that SAP Next-Gen Lab was created for the generation Z, i.e. students and specialists who wish to pursue their careers and find a practical…

  14.12.2018

• WorldSkills Winner on His Competition Experience

  …ory, I moved to practical tasks. My aim was to work up my experience of solving competition tasks for it to become a knee-jerk reaction, something I was very used to do. I did manage to achieve that, which saved me time and effort during the actual competition. The specialists who train students at ITMO University are truly amazing, so if a participant doesn’t have a…

  14.12.2018