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Three Everyday Things You Can't Buy in Russia
… of alcohol. I rubbed it onto my hands and had an irresistible urge to wash them afterwards. Maybe that was the idea. Foreign cheese. A few years ago, foreign cheese fell under sanctions imposed by the Russian government on a multitude of foreign products, including various kinds of dairy. This in turn has spurred local production an…
14.01.2019
ITMO Scientists’ Research at Sino-Russian Symposium at Harbin Institute of Technology
…rch project conducted at ITMO’s International Research Center “Biotechnologies of the Third Millennium”, aimed at exploring nonconventional raw materials and using them to produce functional foods. Among such ingredients is camel milk, which is produced in bulk in Kazakhstan and can be used as an alternative to cow’s milk. What makes this product especially valuable …
14.01.2019
Not by Scopus Alone: World’s Best Scientific Databases
…abase for the medical sphere. Publishing houses offer a range of opportunities for researchers: databases of scientific texts, information resources, and even journals acquire the functions of social networks. A good example of such integration is a social network called Mendeley produced by the Elsevier publishing house. This platform gives you free access to articl…
14.01.2019
Unexplored St. Petersburg: Icebreaker Krassin
…th Norwegian scientists), Krassin offers two regular tours. The first covers the icebreaker’s history and operation; you get to see the ship’s decks and the many exhibits in its collection. In my opinion, this tour is especially great in winter, when the cold and snow on the open deck sort of give you the idea of what being in the Northern seas is like. In the end, i…
11.01.2019
Project Management Institute: Helping Project Managers Develop
…edutainment, a concept widely used by the representatives of the St. Petersburg chapter. It implies that participants are offered to work on hypothetical situations aimed at reconstruction and accumulation of social experience in all of its kinds, from knowledge, skills, and competencies to emotional-value attitudes. The St. Petersburg chapter regularly hosts in-f…
11.01.2019
It All Depends on Effort You Put In: ITMO Master’s Student on Internship at Gazprom and How to Win It
…o solve cases either on business and strategy or data analysis and engineering. I participated in the latter track and got a task on advanced analysis of data related to client transactions. My goal was to create a mathematical model that would allow for classifying client cars based on input data. It is a very topical task for Gazprom as they need it addressed to in…
11.01.2019
Poznan University of Technology’s Agnieszka Barczyk on Collaboration with ITMO
…offering students to take part in the “Launch Your Own Startup” competition. Students of all majors can apply for participation. The competition winners receive support with the protection of their intellectual property rights, as well as technical, technological and financial support. Some of our students say that lecturers don’t pay due attention to practice…
10.01.2019
Cuba-to-Russia Student Mobility: How It Works and What It's Like
… Ministry of Higher Education then decides which university you’ll get to study at. For instance, my first choice was the Bauman University, with ITMO second on the list, but the selection committee decided that ITMO was a more fitting choice for my major,” shares Leoandris. Since Cuba and Russia have a long-standing tradition of student exchange, the four Cuban…
10.01.2019
Drones Legislation, 3D Bioprinting, and Neural Networks in Construction: Foresight Session on Digitization Trends at ITMO University
… The first step is to collect data on all the changes in legislation. The problem is that building companies often learn about such changes when it’s already too late and the construction process has already begun. The second step is to analyze the existing objects in regard to their social infrastructure. Based on this data, new development solutions are being deve…
10.01.2019
IPChain Hackathon: How to Manage Intellectual Property from a Smartphone
…The IPChain network is a distributed ledger housing transactions with rights and objects of intellectual property. Whatever the result of intellectual or creative activity, algorithms and software code included, the network records the facts of their creation and authorship, giving creators the opportunity of using these not only for protecting their ownership rights…
09.01.2019