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• Russian and Swiss Students Collaborate on Social Issue Initiatives

  Last week ITMO University and the University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland conducted a short-term exchange involving 30 students from Switzerland and Russia. The students discussed and collaborated on various practices related to social entrepreneurship. ITMO’s Social Design and Entrepreneurship Center organized the exchange as part of a program for international youth exchange in social services. ITMO.NEWS describes the projects developed by the teams over four days of working together.

  12.04.2018

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: April 14-15

  From folk festivals to food fairs and night sky observations, here's our roundup of this weekend's top events!

  11.04.2018

• Master’s Exchange Students on Learning Lighting Design in Copenhagen

  Making a cramped square feel comfortable, improving lives of medical patients and helping school students study better: students from Aalborg University (Denmark) use light to solve these and other tasks. This Scandinavian country is home to more than the concept of hygge – it is also one of the major European centers for modern art; here, lighting design projects aren’t limited to just museums and art spaces, but are actually becoming a part of the urban environment. Valeria Lukinskaya and Dmitry Chukhin, Master’s students at ITMO’s Higher School of Lighting Design, learned about the best practices and approaches in lighting design during an internship at Aalborg University.

  11.04.2018

• More than ESP: Teaching English with Digital and Print Content

  Research shows that the English language education industry continues to grow worldwide, and demand for training will keep growing. Yet today, the usual “teacher – student” process is joined by a third party – digital technologies. Duncan Christelow, business development manager at Cambridge University Press, who came to ITMO University for the second international conference More than ESP: Empowering Students to Progress, explains how the right combination of digital and print content can facilitate effective learning of the English language.

  10.04.2018

• VK’s Head of Growth and Research On Delegating Routine Tasks to AI

  Last Sunday ITMO University announced the results of the ITMO VK Olympiad. This year, more than 3,000 school students from 70 regions of Russia and CIS took part in the competition that tested their knowledge in 6 disciplines. The finalists got to attend an open lecture on data analysis and machine learning technologies by Andrei Zakonov, the head of growth and research at VK and a graduate of ITMO University. Speaking to ITMO.NEWS, he revealed how machine learning is changing Russia’s biggest social network, how school students can get started in that field and what kind of skills VK looks for in its employees.

  10.04.2018

• St. Petersburg Off the Beaten Track

  St. Petersburg is world-famous for its gorgeous palaces and canals, but there are many other attractions that are, too, worth visiting. From the city’s maze-like courtyards to its atmospheric cafés with ornate interiors, the city has no shortage of places to go off the beaten path. Spring has sprung and it's time to venture out of the house and explore, so check out this list of cool things to do in St. Petersburg.

  10.04.2018

• Learning Russian and Making Movies: a Finn's Exchange Semester at ITMO University

  A student of the University of Oulu (Finland), Niki Tenhunen is spending this spring semester at ITMO University as an exchange student. Niki is a second-year Bachelor’s student with a major in international business. When he’s not studying, he strolls about the city for hours on end, fights stereotypes about life in Russia and even helps make movies. For our interview, we asked Niki about his life in St. Petersburg, its surprises and attractions.

  09.04.2018

• ITMO Celebrates 404 Day with Festival of Street Art

  It’s no coincidence that we celebrate Internet Day on April 4. Error 404, “Page Not Found”, has become a cultural staple; music bands and social projects are named after it, while actual 404 pages become places where web designers express their creativity. ITMO University celebrated the Internet Day in an Art&Science fashion, inviting St. Petersburg’s street artists to show off their skills. Visitors could also try their hand at making street art alongside the pros.

  06.04.2018

• VR/AR Association & ITMO University Spring Kickoff: Trends and Philosophy of Virtual Reality

  ITMO University’s Department of Engineering and Computer Graphics, Center of Mixed Reality and Interface Design, the Video360Production project and the VR/AR Association have launched a series of events dedicated to the use of virtual, augmented and mixed reality technologies. Discussions will concern not only matters of the industry, but also the deeper aspects of VR as a new paradigm of existence. The first event’s discussions touched upon today’s VR/AR market, “gratuals and ingratuals”, and why philosophy is an integral part of virtual reality.

  05.04.2018

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: April 7-8

  It’s sunny today in St. Petersburg, but the weekend promises to be overcast and rainy. Still, that’s no reason to stay at home when so much fun is to be had out in the city. Go below for some of the ways you can entertain yourself this weekend in St. Petersburg!

  04.04.2018