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Startup Boom: SumIT Summer School at ITMO University
…ion. And finally, an algorithm that works as a ranking system,” shares Ivan Gribin, one of the school’s participants. The startupers plan to get a percentage from each transaction. They are now looking for a solution that would allow them not to spend most of the earned money on taxes. “We see our participation in SumIT as an opportunity to hone our pre…
22.08.2019
New Technologies for Longevity: Joint Project by ITMO University and European Partners
…ed. Modern public spaces should be accessible to all groups of people. Using the creative industries’ potential of the countries participating in the program, combined with introduction of IT solutions in the production of smart furniture, will allow participants of the project to bring their business ideas into life and make public …
21.08.2019
How to Get From Pulkovo Airport to St. Petersburg City Center
…The door-to-door service makes it very convenient. Available any time of day. Disadvantages of taking a taxi If you’re ordering a taxi online, you need an internet connection (Wi-Fi is available in the airport but can be unreliable, and if you don’t have roaming it might be hard to connect) It is much more expensive, unless you’re travelling in a grou…
20.08.2019
Summer School in Finland: Accessible Design and Technologies
…so the opportunity to communicate with the lecturers. It was even more so beneficial given that we were pursuing a very important topic, because the world should move towards the direction of more accessibility, namely when it comes to the creation of interfaces and new technologies at large. The University of Jyväskylä is Finland’s third largest university found…
20.08.2019
International ITMO Accessibility Days at ITMO University
…ologies of the Faculty of Software Engineering and Computer Systems. According to one of the center’s staff, Alena Dzhumagulova, the university has started working in this direction a long time ago. There are many student projects on the topic, such as a special watch for the blind and a method for transmitting graphic information for the blind using 3D printi…
20.08.2019
Leading Experts Discuss Advances in MRI Research at BioMETANANO
…eille University, as well as other prominent research institutions, weighed in on these different applications of MRI, as well as work to improve the technology, at the BioMETANANO section of the fourth METANANO conference recently held in St. Petersburg. For one, Professor Arend Heerschap, of Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center, the Netherlands, spoke abou…
19.08.2019
ITMO Delegates Discuss the Development of Public Spaces During a Visit to Finland
…al. The business mission’s members also visited the library Oodi. Its building is the epitome of an ideal modern creative and coworking space: the third floor houses the library collections with special reading areas, while the second and the first floors are filled with music studios and media classes, an atelier equipped with 3D printers and various other creativit…
19.08.2019
ITMO Students and Staff Take Part in Startup Festival *ship
…*ship Startup Festival is a two-day international acceleration program made up of two sections: a series of mentorship programs and a pitch competition. This year, 50 teams from more than 20 countries competed with each other for a grand prize of €5,000. Projects could be entered in one of five categories: Disrupt, Innovate, Entertain, Design, and Impact. The majorit…
16.08.2019
ITMO and Moscow State University Scientists Announce an Open Call for a Joint Article Series for Frontiers in Chemistry
…Titled “Celebrating the International Year of the Periodic Table: Beyond Mendeleev 150”, the collection will be dedicated to how the breakthrough discovery supports research in an entire range of scientific fields. Metamaterials, biology, physics: specialists of all of these branches of scientific knowledge use the table in their day-to-day work, and the colle
16.08.2019
New Luminescent Aerogel Production Method Opens Up Possibilities for Unique Materials
…se in biomedicine. One of the key topics in this field today is the search for new luminescent agents that would be used in biovisualization and early diagnostics. Luminescence functions of most materials currently in use are based on the regular mechanism: short wavelength radiation is absorbed and then emitted on the long-wavelength part of the spectrum. …
15.08.2019