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• ITMO Hosts First Russian Hult Prize Impact Summit Supported by UN

  …Denis Baranenko, head of the Biotechnology of the Third Millennium research center, discussed the future of the food industry, agrotech, and social entrepreneurship. The discussion was moderated by Igor Kuprienko, head of ITMO’s Project Development Division. “I think we feel great when we’re a part of different volunteering ini…

  19.05.2021

• ITMO University Opens International Cybersecurity Center in St. Petersburg

  …e center will be based on three main principles: openness, practical value, and synergy of fundamental research with field-specific tasks. Students will be trained by IT professionals who daily detect and deflect cyber attacks.  At the opening ceremony, representatives of ITMO and the center’s strategic partners presented the main areas of work, as well as the res…

  19.05.2021

• Kotlin Creator Andrey Breslav on His Psychotherapy Finder Service

  …empathic listening skills, personal motivation, and so on. The testing is conducted by specialists of the aforementioned institution. Another important aspect is supervision, i.e. a counsellor has to consult their colleagues and discuss clients’ cases (with regard to their privacy). It is of no less importance for them to get counselling themselves – this excl…

  19.05.2021

• Mind-Blowing Research of the Month: How and Why We Study Music’s Effects on the Brain

  …nding as to what affects our perception of time intervals – and also naturally demonstrated that musicians are much better at this task than those who didn’t study music professionally or do not practice it regularly. By the way, you might even say that musicians are the new bilinguals judging by the amount of benefits music education is believed to provide – so if y…

  18.05.2021

• ITMO Robotics Team Wins RoboCup Russia Open

  …ver medal at the RoboCup Asia-Pacific 2017, plays the guitar, and ELSA, the second-place winner at RoboCup 2019, is a flute virtuoso).” As of now, the team awaits the decision of the international organizing committee regarding quotas – they might be able to represent Russia at the global RoboCup 2021 finals.   …

  18.05.2021

• ITMO Hosts School for Young Scientists

  …o-organizer. “This is why we included lots of lectures by leading professors from Russia, the Czech Republic and Iran in the first part. The second part focused on training sessions and seminars that helped our participants to develop soft skills.” What young scientists need The school opened with lectures on the conference’s topic. For one, Olga Sergienko, a…

  18.05.2021

• 5 Expat Blogs in St. Petersburg

  …Stacey Watson has been living in St. Petersburg for the last 8 years, having moved from the United States. After several years of teaching English, she received professional training as a tour guide and now offers tours of St. Petersburg. Her blog SAFS (Ships Are For Sailing) has its own website and Instagram page. On the blog, Stacey shares tips and advice on living…

  17.05.2021

• Yandex’s Andrey Sebrant on Progress, Society and Podcasts

  …ord a podcast – that’s overkill. All I have with me in my backpack is a recorder and a couple of microphones. If the conversation is worthwhile, you don’t exactly need a professional to record and process it. It’s the same as with photography – you can make good pictures with a smartphone, you don’t necessarily need an expensive camera and lots of various lenses. …

  17.05.2021

• It’s Your Call! Forum Winning Projects: Fighting Burnout and Recycling Face Masks

  …r and I am very into this field.  My team developed a project on NLP (Natural Language Processing – Ed.). We analyzed emotions and proposed a system that would detect professional burnout of employees, because it affects the company and it’s efficiency and causes losses. We will definitely keep working on the project, Sberbank’s representatives told us who we shou…

  17.05.2021

• Biologist Dmitry Zhukov on Stress, Depression, and Displacement Activities

  …What is stress and where it comes from Biologically speaking, stress is a reaction to a new significant stimulus, to a situation that demands making decisions quickly. It’s basically an adaptive reaction of our bodies that is supposed to either solve the problem or adapt to the situation. Animals experience stress if there is a direct threat to their life, for …

  14.05.2021