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ITMO University’s Business-incubator is IIDF’s “Incubator of the Year”
…m. This year the course expanded beyond Russia: several universities in Kazakhstan and an academy in Belarus are planning to add this program as well. The course’s authors are promising to adapt the program for teaching school students the basics of Internet entrepreneurship.…
09.06.2017
Erasmus+: How To Effectively Collaborate With European Universities
…d is intended to continue until 2020. It focuses on introducing the European Union's strategy in the field of education: development of student mobility and cultural exchange, promotion of collaboration between universities and development of human and social capital in Europe and other countries in general. Who can participate? All EU countries, as well as Ice…
09.06.2017
ITMO to Receive 2 Million Rubles For Endowment Fund Development
…on can become a benefactor. The legal framework for endowment funds was established in Russia in 2006. In 2015 the University Endowment Association (UnivEn) was established to promote such initiatives in Russian universities and develop their strategies. Vladimir Potanin’s charity fund was founded in 1999 and aims to support educational and cultural initiatives, a…
08.06.2017
Chemoinformatics in ITMO: From Individual Projects to A University of Strasbourg Diploma
…hnologies, as well as increase in awareness of phycicians and citizens of the opportunities presented by modern genomics. "The market of chemoinformatics research is most promising as well, notes Yuri Pozorov. Now, almost every research in the field of drug design and new materials starts in a bio- or chemoinformatics laboratory," he adds. In Russia, the ma…
08.06.2017
ScienceFest, Day 2: Phygital Technologies And The New Approach To Museums
…e museums as opposed to classical ones. It all began with the House of Popular Science which was opened in 1935 in Leningrad at the initiative of Yakov Perelman. The idea of promoting science to the public spread throughout the world, and now one can even create an ontology on establishments that cultivated this idea. For instance, there are now 19 centers in Portu…
31.05.2017
ITMO's Technopark Establishes Cooperation with a Major Food Production Company
…elf life of products by using protective food wraps. Special nanoparticles are added into common polymer films so as to decrease microbial contamination. Such technologies are promising for such fields as producing cold cuts. Denis Baranenko also presented ITMO's capabilities in creating biologically active ingredients for prevention treatment of degenerative, car…
31.05.2017
Campus Festival: How to Learn About Science at a Bar
…tion, make it interesting, simple and captivating. Secondly, people who are involved in these processes need to focus on the audience that isn’t educated on the matter yet, to promote their findings in unusual places and to draw in people who aren’t involved in science. We had a lot of attendants tonight, so, I think, there is definitely potential for more”, - says V…
29.05.2017
Foresight Fleet 2017: St. Petersburg Is To Become A Global Construction Bureau
…main idea was to create a "solution construction kit and navigator" for the city and its citizens based on an open alliance of universities; a global testing area for the most promising technological, managerial and educational projects. According to Ms. Yanikina's team, the university environment is to become the main subject responsible for maintaining St. Petersbu…
27.05.2017
Volunteering Unlimited: Students from Russia's 35 Regions Presented Their Projects in Yagodnoe
…f the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration. The project’s general idea is to help people with disabilities develop their own business and promote their production. "Our main goal is to teach people with disabilities work and earn without leaving homes. For that, we conduct different workshops, including those on training lea…
26.05.2017
ITMO University Opens Educational Courses on BIM Technologies in Building and Infrastructure Design
…ect. Russia does not yet have national standards, even though templates for some of them are already available at Autodesk’s website, which is, among other things, involved in promotion of BIM. BIM-modelers create the actual building elements and are responsible for the project’s library of design families; BIM-coordinators are responsible for troubleshooting the pro…
24.05.2017