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• Digital Professions Program: Over 1,000 People Are Studying IT With ITMO University

  The Digital Professions in Russia initiative keeps growing and ITMO University’s courses, offered as part of the program, have been immensely popular, with more than 1,100 students joining. Soon specialists from ITMO’s DH Center and International Research and Education Center Autodesk will launch four more online courses.

  10.01.2022

• Congress of Young Scientists Day 1: School of Russian Science Foundation, Art & Science, and Student Laboratories

  December 8 marked the start of the National Congress of Young Scientists – one of the closing events of the Russian Year of Science and Technology – in the Sirius Park of Science and Art, Sochi. More than 3,000 attended the congress on the first day. Among the participants are representatives of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, the Russian Science Foundation (RSF), universities and research laboratories, leading IT and tech companies, as well as aspiring scientists and school students. Researchers and experts from ITMO University got a chance to share their experiences and moderate several discussions. Here are the highlights of the event’s first day.

  09.12.2021

• Yandex’s Head of AI Development: Interns Can Make Mistakes – That’s Why They’re the Best Trailblazers

  The VUZPROMEXPO, a national convention on the subject of science and education, kicked off in Sochi on December 8 and will continue until the 10th. Russian scientists, university higher-ups, and representatives of business and the government met at the Sirius Park of Science and Art to discuss collaboration, showcase their achievements, and sum up the year’s results. One of the first day’s most notable discussions, titled How Technologies Will Change Higher Education, was moderated by Daria Kozlova, the First Vice Rector of ITMO University and the head of its 2030 Development Strategy.

  09.12.2021

• ITMO Fellowship Stories: ‪Maxim Likhanov on Importance of Spatial Skills and Synergy Between Chemistry and Neuroscience

  In 2019, Maxim Likhanov graduated from Tomsk State University with a PhD in philology. Two years later, he won the chance to do his research at ITMO University as part of ITMO Fellowship and Professorship Program. ITMO.NEWS talked to the scientist to learn more about how to succeed in chemistry, why spatial skills are important, and how they’ve transformed his life.

  23.11.2021

• ITMO First Vice Rector Daria Kozlova on ITMO’s 2030 Open Call for Projects

  ITMO University is currently running an open call for projects within the 2030 Development Strategy. The contest is open to everyone – staff and students from ITMO, as well as other universities and companies – wishing to create innovative technologies, propose new education solutions, and shape the development of the city and country. In this article, ITMO First Vice Rector Daria Kozlova explains how participants can benefit from the contest and what new fields of science may appear at the university soon.

  22.11.2021

• ITMO.EduStars Winner Antonina Fedorova: Public Speaking Can Change Our Reality

  This year, Antonina Fedorova, a practicing psychologist and soft skills lecturer, received an award for achievements in education. Read on to learn how the winner of the EduStars contest manages to build trust with her students, why professional deformation isn’t always a bad thing, and what makes a successful speech.

  28.10.2021

• ITMO.Expert Project: Student- and Teacher-Centered Learning and New Opportunities

  On September 8, ITMO University hosted an official closing ceremony of the ITMO.Expert online course on technologies for personalized learning. During the ceremony, the final results were summed up and over 60 participants, including ITMO staff, mentors, and students, received their professional development certificates.

  17.09.2021

• ITMO University Joins Digital Professions in Russia Initiative

  From now on, thanks to the Digital Professions in Russia initiative, Russian citizens have the opportunity to become IT specialists by completing online courses at half the price.

  27.08.2021

• Technology in Chemistry: Positive Effect of VR on Students’ Academic Performance

  Three years ago, ITMO University implemented a VR class for first-year students studying inorganic chemistry. As noted by the university's teachers and MEL Science developers, the immersive experience had a positive impact,  increasing students’ learning progress by 20%. The results of the experiment were published in the Journal of Chemical Education.

  26.07.2021

• PI School Participants Share Their Stories

  ITMO University has recently hosted a summer school for young scholars striving for international recognition. The school participants defended their roadmaps for developing world-class laboratories in their regions and shared their impressions with ITMO.NEWS.

  28.06.2021