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• ITMO University Professor Awarded for Mentoring

  … experience, because such experience cannot be multiplied. No way. Because some people have it and some just don’t. How one acquires the skill of mentoring, the talent, if you want, I myself do not know. But it is important to encourage people in what they are doing, because mentoring is like art: one cannot teach it to you, but you can learn”, notes Anatoly Shalyto.…

  16.03.2018

• Eco-Friendly Board Game Teaches Students to Combine Business and Sustainable Development

  … journalist who has added some valuable insights to our syllabuses. It was nice to find out that staff from our university, too, contributed to the game’s creation. We’ve long wanted to add ecological and climate change subjects to our Master’s programs. Board games provide us with well-thought-out concepts that let us involve everyone in the process. It’s important …

  15.03.2018

• SCAMT Member on New Approaches to Chemical Education

  …n the field of education. Actually, this problem is not just about the people; it is our very educational system that is quitte archaic. For instance, when I decided that I want to share new educational approaches, including those that I had developed, with the pedagogical community in our country, I learned that there is no scientific journal in Russia that would…

  14.03.2018

• New Head of US English Language Office on How to Improve English-Language Education in Russia and the World

  …ews with candidates for the program, and many are psychologically unprepared for moving to Russia for a period of time, as they don’t know what to expect. For this program, we want to find the kind of people who understand the Russian universities’ needs, and can share their experience in academic writing and new teaching methods. My understanding is that this is wha…

  13.03.2018

• Exchange semester in France: a Life-Changing Experience

  …old me about this opportunity and I decided to give it a try. I spent the whole winter semester in France, from late September to mid-February. I could choose the program I wanted, so I took the classes similar to what I had been taking at ITMO University. Even though it was my final year at the university, it didn’t affect their decision; the main thing was to fi…

  13.03.2018

• HR Hackathon: Making Things Easier for Employers and Employees

  …ractice training venues. “We often get calls from companies who are interested in our graduates. We’re tired of having to tell them off, and the students themselves often want to find a job without having any work experience; because of all this, we created this internship service. We realized that is something that is an issue not just for us, but for a million…

  12.03.2018

• Exchange Students from Brazil: 'They're Always Happy'

  …ticipated in the program and went to Liverpool for a year. As soon as I started university I searched for a similar opportunity. Unfortunately, the program shut down. I always wanted to go on exchange, so when I found this opportunity to come to ITMO I didn't think twice!” - shares Caio. Thales had a similar desire to go on exchange, but found it hard to fin…

  09.03.2018

• Women and Science: ITMO’s Finest

  …d in order to play sports. Some time during my Masters or maybe my PhD, I understood that international education is interesting, and it’s necessary for people and it’s what I want to do. When I defended my PhD thesis and talked about how to evaluate the effectiveness of academic mobility programs, very few of my colleagues understood me. It’s a good thing that th…

  08.03.2018

• ITMO's Young Scientist on How to Win Two Grants and Go to Berlin

  …Why Did You Choose ITMO University? I’ve always liked physics and biology and wanted to combine them. There were not so many universities in St. Petersburg that had such a program, and ITMO did. There was a department that is now called the Department of Laser Systems and Technologies, and I applied. What Do You Remember Most About Your Time at ITMO University?…

  07.03.2018

• ITMO and Mel Science Launch Affiliate Program for Kids

  …ite where we can learn how well children understand our experiments, explanations and remarks, shares Galina Konstantinova, tester for Mel Science School. At the same time, we want the kids to perceive chemical experiments as not some conjurer’s tricks, but really understand the processes that emerge during chemical reactions. Today, we studied ionic replacement reac…

  06.03.2018