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International ITMO Accessibility Days at ITMO University
…inition of disability and various devices Attending the conference were guests from the USA, including Helen T. Sullivan, professor of psychology from Rider University, who shared about the challenges faced by specialists designing devices for people with sensory, motor and cognitive disabilities. Helen started by giving the definition of disability. It’s a phy…
20.08.2019
ITMO Delegates Discuss the Development of Public Spaces During a Visit to Finland
…rilova, director of the University’s Entrepreneurship Center. According to Olesya Baraniuk, the ITMO staff present at the event managed to visit several organizations that share the University’s profile. Among those are Aalto Design Factory (ADF), which has a well-developed interaction with startups, as well as a number of coworking spaces, including Maria 01, IT…
19.08.2019
ITMO Students and Staff Take Part in Startup Festival *ship
…festival at XAMK University’s coworking space XLab. At the workshop, Igor Kuprienko, the head of ITMO’s Center for Project Development, and I, along with volunteers from ITMO, shared our experience of supporting entrepreneurship at the University. We’ve spoken about the work done by our Entrepreneurship Center, the Faculty of Technological Management and Innovations,…
16.08.2019
ITMO and Moscow State University Scientists Announce an Open Call for a Joint Article Series for Frontiers in Chemistry
…th the publication’s manager for development that we came up with the idea of a series of articles dedicated to the periodic table and chemistry elements in the larger sense,” shares Mikhail Kurushkin. Frontiers in Chemistry is an open-access journal with an infrastructure that includes a platform for a peer evaluation of articles, a digital editorial board, pu…
16.08.2019
Apps to Make Your Student Life Easier
…, you can also add introductory videos to your projects. You can add as many questions as you want. Tests can be taken via a mobile app or on the service’s website. You can share the links on your website or in social networks. The full list of cases that you can use the service for (which is quite long and includes such things as teamwork, networking, training, e…
13.08.2019
Procrastination: Blessing or a Curse?
The Experiment: Living Zero Waste for a Week
…ed that it’s of 5 PP type which technically makes it recyclable, but still not ideal, because plastic can be recycled only for a limited amount of times. So I spent the lion’s share of my Sunday morning scouring the nearby shops for a better option and found glass-packaged hummus at Vkusvill, which turned out to be okay-ish in taste. I guess that the moral of the sto…
09.08.2019
Russian School Students Score a Resounding Victory at the 2019 International Olympiad in Informatics
…rmatics Olympiad (APIO-2019). Following the results of last year’s IOI competition, held in the Japanese city of Tsukuba, the Russian team finished in the 4-5th place, sharing it with their Belarusian counterparts; the school students won two gold and two silver medals. At the 2017 Olympiad, the national team’s tally was made up of one gold and three silver m…
09.08.2019
This Weekend in St. Petersburg: August 10-11, 2019
…om 9pm at the Roof Place open-air concert venue (tickets). The latter offers a great view of the Gulf of Finland and generally is a nice place to enjoy music, hosting its fair share of concerts on a regular basis (look below for another one). NeoClassicFest August 11, starting from 4pm Roof Place 1,500 rubles Proudly displaying the best of the bes…
07.08.2019
Grad Platforma: User-Driven City Events Aggregator
…ormation is easily accessible to everyone interested in some Russian cities, in others it can be extremely difficult to obtain as little as a catalogue of the data available,” shares Igor Pilipchuk, the project’s participant from Russia’s Khabarovsk Krai. “Over a short period of time, the participants had to master a whole spectrum of unfamiliar programm…
06.08.2019