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• Explore Saint Petersburg Like a Local: Moskovsky Prospect

  …House of Soviets, a monolithic office building decorated with friezes depicting muscular Soviet workers. In front of it stands an enormous statue of Lenin. He was probably envisioned as delivering an inspiring speech, but the locals all say he’s dancing.  A few blocks further, and you’ll be passing the Voskresensky Novodevichy Convent, the first Orthodox convent i…

  03.03.2020

• ITMO University’s Personal Development Center Launches a Course on Team Creativity

  …l of teamwork is one of today’s main requirements to specialists. Our company, T&D Technologies, focuses on the development of different products: we offer classic coaching sessions and business games, and we also own a patent on the technology of business quests. Business quests are a non-standard product: unlike coaching sessions, the…

  03.03.2020

• Love March 8 Like a Russian

  …as formalized after a war-time strike in 1917 in St. Petersburg, when women demanded “bread and peace.” Four days into the strike, the Tsar was forced to abdicate and the provisional government granted women the right to vote. The strike commenced on February 23, but at the time Russia was using the Julian calendar. When the country switched to the Gregorian calendar…

  02.03.2020

• New Way to Digitize: ITMO Students and Staff Invited to Take Part in University’s Digital Transformation

  …The recently-announced digital transformation program at ITMO University aims to assist the university in its development and expansion into the global education market, as well as the scientific and innovative communities. To make that happen, the university’s digital services must be flexible and quick to adapt to new goals. This program is also expected to improve…

  02.03.2020

• Over Twenty ITMO University Students Win Potanin Scholarship Contest

  …participants. The tasks resemble business cases, which is why the onsite round calls for a certain degree of erudition. You have to be up to date with such topics as “Professions of the Future” and “Development of Humans and Science in the Following 50 years”. I’d also note that the judges closely monitor how the participants behave during the contest. In my opini…

  02.03.2020

• ITMO’s Technopark Resident MerkleBot Receives an Award at the World’s Largest Developer Conference

  …ditions of service. It can then send this information to every party to the leasing contract: the entrepreneur, the bank and the service companies, who can provide their professional opinion on the hardware in question.  This solution can help the parties to the contract calculate and assess the risks, and determine the production margin. For banks, this is a way …

  02.03.2020

• Song of the Month: February 2020

  …y day.  First of all, Paramore’s own Hayley Williams decided to go solo for the first time in her career, gracing the world with Petals for Armor I. Unexpected creative decisions, “naive”, as Hayley herself put it, experiments with sounds and some of her “best work” in the lyrics department – this EP could not have been any better. My personal earworms are Cinnamo…

  28.02.2020

• Painting with Plasma: ITMO University Researchers Propose a Way of Fast and Inexpensive Glass Processing for Microoptics and Microfluidics

  …fragile material,” he explains. “That’s why its mechanical processing is rather difficult: there’s a high possibility of destruction due to microfractures, chips, and inner tension. If we’re talking about glass processing technologies, then its typical radiation sources are either quite peculiar (excimer lasers), expensive (pico- and femtosecond lasers), complex to o…

  28.02.2020

• Students of Three European Universities Visit Russia to Study Closed-Loop Economy on the Example of St. Petersburg Companies

• Smaragda Georgouli: Art is Not a Hobby, It’s a Way of Life

  …who want to carry art on their skin fulfill their desire, and here, in St Petersburg! As for sailing, I already have my skipper’s license, and I am working on becoming a professional skipper myself, so I might travel around the world on a boat and explore life. Languages are and always will be exciting for me as they bring people closer, from French and Spanish to Sw…

  27.02.2020