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• Choose Your University Stress-Free at ITMO Open Days 2026

  Open days are a great opportunity to learn all you need about the admission process, chat with current students, and check out a university’s infrastructure. In this article, you’ll find a schedule of open days at ITMO for 2026 – get your calendar ready!

  13.01.2026

• How To Get Back to Work/Classes After a Long Break

  The hardest thing to cope with after long holidays is oftentimes not the post-holiday blues, but productivity guilt. You have to drag yourself out of bed, you feel drained, and your to-do list makes you feel nothing but anxious. In this article, Anastasia Prichislenko, a psychologist and the head of the soft skills module in personal efficiency and public speaking at ITMO, explains why this state is a normal stage of body reset, rather than a wave of laziness, and shares her tips on how to make the return to work and studies easier.

  12.01.2026

• AI vs Therapists: Can You Get Help From AI?

  In 2025, therapy became the most popular type of request for AI. More and more people all over the world turn to AI for emotional support, decision-making, and companionship. Together with Natalia Kiselyova, a research consultant with the online therapy service Alter, we decided to investigate whether AI can help support your mental health and how to use it safely.

  07.01.2026

• Staying Strong: Mental Health During Exams

  Happily resting, recovering from burnout, or cramming for exams – what are you doing this holiday season? Even though it’s full of magic, this time of year can be challenging. In this article, we’ve assembled all our top tips and wisdom for any of the three scenarios. Choose yours and read on.

  06.01.2026

• Our Team’s Top Feats of 2025

  From exploring Russian art from unexpected angles to testing the “proverbial” knowledge of our international students, we’ve done a lot of cool things this year! Allow us to brag a little as we look back on 2025 – and we’ll delight you with even more exciting stories in the next year!

  30.12.2025

• ITMO in 2025: Highlights of the Year

  2025 is almost 100% loaded. Let’s look back on the main events – great, surprising, and pleasant – that happened at ITMO this year, plus top three research happenings from every month. Enjoy!

  29.12.2025

• How ITMO’s International Students Celebrate New Year in Russia

  For our international students, the New Year's feast means that Russian salad and caviar coexist with pilaf, kofta, and banh chung; here, tastes of home share the table with newfound delicacies. We talked to students from Turkey, Egypt, Vietnam, and Afghanistan to learn how they will be celebrating this year and how their holiday customs have changed since coming to Russia. 

  26.12.2025

• Flexible Highly Sensitive Sensors of Calcium in Complex Media Developed at ITMO

  ITMO researchers have suggested a new approach to developing flexible, portable sensors for detecting calcium ions in complex media, such as seawater and milk. At the core of the sensors is MXene, a 2D material that, thanks to its high conductivity to ions and electrons, made it possible to increase the sensors’ sensitivity while also simplifying their design. The chemists have already unveiled two prototypes on substrates of glass and plastic that can be used to measure calcium levels in water bodies, foods (e.g., milk), and in medical diagnostics. The results of this Russian Science Foundation-supported study were published in Small.

  26.12.2025

• Products by ITMO Students Named Best at VkusVill Startup Incubator

  In the second season of the Collab startup incubator by Russian retailer VkusVill, two teams from ITMO became finalists and two more – winners in different nominations. A nattokinase hummus by team HUMMUSapiens was named best in the category Scientific Novelty, while a gluten-free brownie by team CookieFun won in the category Functional Health Foods. Team CookieFun will get the opportunity to improve their products with experts from VkusVill’s department of research and new product development, with a test batch of brownies on its way to supermarket shelves.

  25.12.2025

• ITMO Student Wins 1 Million Rubles in National Contest Your Turn

  Eva Avocado, a student at ITMO’s Faculty of Applied Informatics, has won the national contest Your Turn with her project The Adaptation Game, which helps first-year studentss adapt to university life. To play the game, students can scan QR codes on campus to learn new facts and level up their characters. Thanks to the game, the users’ ability to navigate between different rooms, coworking spaces, and other on-campus locations increased by three times. 

  24.12.2025