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• Best Practices and Innovative Projects: Recap of National Student Sports Forum at ITMO University

  …ite all ongoing challenges because, in the end, the results will be worth it. ITMO’s sports events served at first as a platform for testing modern methods and techniques. For instance, students got the chance to choose any sports for their PE classes. Yet over time, the university authorities decided to scale the approach up and extended it to other educational disc…

  07.12.2021

• What Helps the Brain Keep Your Balance

  …cept of self; that is, we see ourselves as individuals and identify with this first-person view of the world that has been the basis of so much philosophical debate. Our brains need to actually combine information about the location of the body and its limbs (gained from the sensations arising in them) with visual information (what we see) in order for us to exist…

  07.12.2021

• Participants of BRIDGE Project Share Their Stories and Achievements

  …en though there were no strict criteria.  “Although our first priority were companies from the Northwestern Federal District, we looked at other Russian regions, too. For instance, we have participants from Yekaterinburg. We considered candidates from both small and medium-sized businesses but the latter had more chances to become part of our program. What was i…

  06.12.2021

• Wanted: Ded Moroz, Snegurochka, and Other Russian New Year’s Characters

  …ou will ever mistake him for someone else. Similarly to his colleagues, Ded Moroz wears a floor-length coat and a hat, normally in red or blue and lavished with fur and winter-inspired embroideries. Out of the traditional garments, he often opts for matching mittens and valenki. His silver or crystal walking stick is topped with a star or a snowflake and is the sourc…

  06.12.2021

• Generator Pitch Battle: Present Your Project to Energy Industry Experts and Get It Funded

  …Orbita Capital Partners venture foundation.  Have there been projects that received funding despite not winning? Though, this has never happened, it is possible. For instance, one of the projects from the finals that didn’t get the grant has now turned to venture cafes and business angels for funding. It’s important to remember that the skills you acquire a…

  06.12.2021

• ITMO Fellowship & Professorship Participants Discuss Their Research Projects

  …ning (HTS). Infochemistry Scientific Center Before joining the Fellowship & Professorship program, Sergey Shityakov received a PhD degree at the University of Würzburg’s Institute for Virology and Immunobiology, where he still works. At ITMO University, he is the head of the  Chemoinformatics research team and develops new methods for screening and molecular da…

  03.12.2021

• ITMO Students Receive 2.5 Million Rubles Grant for University Development

  …t round. The semi-finals included business games, during which teams had to allocate their tasks to solve certain problems. An expert board that consisted of psychologists, instructors, and coaches evaluated the performance of each participant by taking into account how they contributed to the team and perceived new information.  In the finals, students from va…

  02.12.2021

• Startup Life: Find Your Silicon Valley Internship With ITMO Accelerator’s Latest Project

  …t management, business analytics, data science, and others.  “Our project was born in response to student demand: they want to intern at startups so that they can take an inside look at the workflow and decide if they want to found one themselves. At a startup, students can get the position they want right from the start, rapidly climb the career ladder, and boo…

  02.12.2021

• Student Spotlight: Ashish T.S. Ireddy, India

  …d it seemed unique compared to all the other programs on big data that I’d seen. It focused on big data, which I was interested in but also featured many specializations – for instance, healthcare, the most intriguing one for me that I am pursuing right now.  How do you want to apply big data in healthcare?  In India, healthcare doesn’t depend so much on data a…

  02.12.2021

• ITMO Alumnus Ilya Lazerson on Why Chefs Should Have Higher Education

  …, once I finished secondary school, I had no doubts about enrolling in a cooking school.  Why did you decide to continue your studies and choose the Leningrad Technological Institute of Refrigeration Industry?  Back then, people believed that you can’t get anywhere in this world without a degree. My parents shared this opinion, too. They wanted me to go to univ…

  01.12.2021