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• Movie Fridays: Netflix’s New Stalker Drama You

  …f”. Let’s face it, that’s what we all do, googling people to make sure they are safe; but it’s a whole different story with Joe, whose interest in Beck quickly turns into obsession. Yep, you’re right, we’ve already seen it all: the bustling New York streets, the elite world of the Upper East Side, boisterous parties, and Penn Badgley in the role of a shy web-s…

  05.04.2019

• Professor Alessandra Bonoli on Ecodesign, Circular Economy and Life Cycle Thinking

  …activities on Earth more eco-friendly. When did this concept emerge, and what exactly is it about? It all began in 1987 with the report Our Common Future by the World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED). Sustainable development was defined as “development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to mee…

  05.04.2019

• Startup Veteran on Beginners’ Common Mistakes: A Founder’s Main KPI is Staying Alive

  …ger a product people want to use. When you are your own reference point, it becomes too hard to verify data and hypotheses; A lack or abundance of confidence in your own decisions. Due to the challenging and intense nature of their work, founders always find themselves drawn to extremes, and over the years begin to approach something akin to bipolar disorder. I’ve …

  05.04.2019

• ITMO’s Faculty of Physics and Engineering Launches a Projects Contest

  …metamaterials. ITMO University’s Faculty of Physics and Engineering is a long-standing partner of the Sirius educational center, contributing to the organization of project sessions in the subject area of physics. University researchers and lecturers, undergraduate and postgraduate students, teachers at specialized schools from St. Petersburg and other Russian…

  04.04.2019

• CodeX Founder Petr Savchenko on the Team’s Next-Gen Software Editor.js: Block Editors Are the Future

  …e and structure were similar to what it is today. What has changed in these past three years? Today, we have thousands of users. In 2016, when we released the first beta version, we didn’t announce it anywhere. We just continued to develop it and fix bugs, while also integrating the editor into the work process of several major media outlets: vc.ru, TJournal, and …

  04.04.2019

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: April 6-7

  …tulips to mushrooms. Tickets cost 100 rubles and include access to the park, where you can see snowdrops and other early spring bloomers. From April 5 to May 12, on the occasion of the International Arctic Forum taking place in St. Petersburg next week, National Geographic’s photographer and marine biologist Dr. Enric Sala and St. Petersburg’s artist Polina Rybina…

  03.04.2019

• ITMO University Makes a Debut in THE University Impact Rankings 2019

  …cts of cooperation between universities and businesses: the agency’s experts wanted to assess how actively universities are involved in research and development projects commissioned and supported by their industrial partners, and in what fields this collaboration is most successful. However, after a while, this turned into a more full-scale survey. “While some …

  03.04.2019

• ITMO University’s Master’s Degree Programs in 2019: Don’t Miss Your Opportunity

  …rams? Our main task today is to systematically develop our Master’s program system. That includes a number of initiatives for prospective students, organization of the admission campaign, improvement of quality of education at Master’s programs, and collaboration with our students’ current and prospective employers, as well as coordination of our students’ researc…

  03.04.2019

• I am a Professional: Gold Medal Winners Share Their Experience

  …“I am a Professional” took place from November 2018 till March 2019. This year, 523,000 students applied for the competition, which is almost twice the amount that participated last year. 3,472 of them became award winners, among whom 106 received gold medals, 139 got silver and 190 got bronze. Some of the participants got medals in several categories (you can learn …

  03.04.2019

• Gamified Education and Blockchain for IPs: Winners of Potanin Foundation’s Grant Competition

  …e feedback we received from Master’s students, and our lively and interactive educational process, that I got the idea for a gamified online textbook that would become an extension of classes at the university. This is a direct response to our Master’s students’ desire to have access to materials and tests, to learn more about their program, to keep the evaluation pr…

  02.04.2019