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• Active Learning: 7 Ways to Increase Students’ Motivation and Engagement

  As part of the ITMO.EXPERT project, ITMO University held a workshop on the strategies of active learning. Participating as speakers were the ITMO lecturers who’d recently completed an internship at Central European University (CEU) in Budapest, Hungary: Anna Balabanova, a tutor at Foreign Language Training Center; Stanislav Kim, an engineer at the Faculty of Control Systems and Robotics; and Ivan Loginov, an assistant at the Faculty of Software Engineering and Computer Systems. More on the seven key active learning concepts discussed at the workshop in this article by ITMO.NEWS.

  05.02.2020

• Internship at Facebook: ITMO Students Share Their Stories

  Every year, ITMO University students participate in academic exchanges and do internships in major international companies, such as Google, Facebook, and Yandex, to name but a few. In this interview with ITMO.NEWS, students from the Information Technologies and Programming Faculty share their experiences from participating in an internship at Facebook.

  20.11.2019

• Participants of Google’s STEP Internship Share Tips for First-Timers

  For some years now, ITMO students have been regular participants of Google internships. To them, it is an opportunity to experience for themselves how it feels to work for one of the world’s most recognizable corporations. We got in touch with ITMO students and Google interns Vadim Brilyantov, Ilya Bizyaev, Viktoria Erokhina and Anastasia Postnikova to ask them about how to land a dream internship and how the time they spent at Google changed them. 

  13.11.2019

• Data Science for Gazprom Neft: Internships for ITMO Students

  Representatives of the marketing division of Gazprom Neft, one of the country’s leading fuel companies, presented an internship program at ITMO University that offers students in the field of IT, data and economic analysis an opportunity to get some practical experience and a chance to land a job at the company. ITMO.NEWS talked to the company’s representatives and learned what awaits students at the GPN Intelligence Cup case championship, what competencies an intern has to have, and what other ways are there to get a job at Gazprom Neft for an IT specialist.

  09.10.2019

• ChemBio Cluster Master’s Students on Their International Internship Experience

  Each year, ITMO University students discover the world as part of academic exchanges and research internships at a wide range of international universities. This year, several Master’s students of ITMO’s ChemBio Cluster worked on projects in state-of-the-art laboratories at universities in Belgium, Germany, and Israel. ITMO.NEWS spoke to the students to find out more about their projects and lessons they learned from being part of international research groups.

  07.08.2019

• ITMO Students on Recent Start-Up Internship Program in China

  This July, students of ITMO’s Informational Technologies and Programming Faculty Nikita Losovetin and Nikita Savilov participated in Start-Up China, an internship program for entrepreneurs at the Neusoft University in Dalian, China. In collaboration with their international colleagues, they worked on developing products from scratch, attended workshops, and strengthened international cooperation. The students spoke to ITMO.NEWS about their experience of spending a month in China and participating in an international program for young entrepreneurs.

  01.08.2019

• ITMO PhD Students Share Their Impressions of Internship in Singapore

  In the course of nine months, from October 2018 to July 2019, Oksana Severyukhina and Ivan Derevitsky, PhD students and staff of ITMO University’s National Center for Cognitive Technologies, did an internship at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. The internship gave them an opportunity to work on their projects at one of the world’s most technologically advanced university campuses, as well as travel a lot and establish some useful connections.

  24.07.2019

• ITMO Master’s Student on Internship in Israel and a New Cancer Treatment Method

  From May to September 2019, ITMO University Master’s student Antonina Dadadzhanova is doing a research internship at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. Her research is dedicated to the so-called stabilizer molecules, which are capable of destroying cancer cells when exposed to light or ultrasound. In this interview with ITMO.NEWS, the student shares about her internship and the difference between life in Russia and in Israel.

  15.07.2019

• PhD Student from MIT on Internship at ITMO, Russian Culture and Science

  Charles Roques-Carmes is a PhD student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) who works under the guidance of Marin Soljačić, a renowned scientist famous for his research in the field of wireless nonradiative energy transfer and various issues of photonics and electromagnetics. The young researcher came to ITMO for a three-month internship in order to work with scientists from the Research Center of Nanophotonics and Metamaterials. Charles stresses that coming to Russia was a well-thought-out decision: here, not only can he work in a promising research field, but he can also practice his Russian which he has been learning since his school days. In an interview with ITMO.NEWS, he spoke about the specifics of working at ITMO University and why the Russian language can often appear harder than studying nanophotonics.

  19.06.2019

• ITMO Master’s Student Yan Koval on His Internship in Denmark and Importance of Public Opinion in Lighting Design

  Yan Koval, a second-year Master’s student of ITMO University’s program in Lighting Design has returned from a short-term internship at Aalborg University (Denmark). We spoke to Yan and learned about the differences in Copenhagen and St. Petersburg’s lighting cultures, the importance of public opinion in designing a lighting environment, and how Denmark is making its lighting eco-friendly.

  22.05.2019