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• ITMO.City of Professions: Best Jobs and Internships for Students

• ‘I Want to Create Something that Really Matters’: ITMO University’s First-Year Student On Developing Socially Significant Apps

  …y active participation in various scientific events, I often missed my classes, and that was frowned upon. When I was in the tenth grade, each teacher’s meeting included discussions on to punish me for such trespasses. The computer science teacher, who was my only ally, told me that the other staff used to really dig up on me to bring me to book. There were even thre…

  02.10.2018

• Fighting Talk: Management Sparrings Participants Discuss their Experience

  … them: classical sparrings and express sparrings. In classical sparrings, each participant is given their own role, which they have to play out in a five-minute negotiation session, after which the ball goes to their opponent’s court. The opponent makes the choice of swapping the roles and starting the negotiations from scratch or keeping to the established course of…

  01.10.2018

• Smart City VS Smart Citizens: Сoen Bergman on Conducting Efficient Public Research

  …h sensors that would’ve allowed them to conduct measurements independently in particular districts. The first prototypes weren’t very good, especially in comparison with professional equipment. Since then, we’ve done several improvements, which allowed us to conduct the first experiments and look how it works. We tried to improve their quality and also make them affo…

  01.10.2018

• Buy Groceries Like a Russian

  …o a grocery store in Zelengorosk, a small town outside St. Petersburg, I stepped on someone’s toes and just about ran a kid over with my shopping cart. People here are on a mission. You will see it in their precise movements and established routes. After all, getting cucumbers is no laughing matter. You better keep up. You have to weigh stuff before going to…

  01.10.2018

• Art-Tir: Unleash Your Inner Pollock

  …I truly believe that every person is an artist at heart, and, despite my utmost respect for the Old Masters, I’d still say that art is more about passion than skill. Given the necessary freedom, anyone can create a decent art piece, but few actually try. Some are discouraged after comparing their work with that of “real” artists, and as for me, it is the mess that I …

  28.09.2018

• Founder of Surprise Me: Managing a Startup is Like Running in the Dark

  …hat we finally started making decent money, but we weren’t that crazy about the routine attached to dealing with businesses of such scale: there were too many protracted discussions where you have to fuss over the smallest detail. And then it all could fall through at the eleventh hour. Another major drawback we encountered was that there weren’t a lot of prospect…

  28.09.2018

• Want to Be Successful in Business? Learn to Communicate

  …r options. I ended up at AIESEC, an international youth organization that develops leadership skills in young people by means of international exchange. They send you to professional and volunteer internships all over the world and train you to find solutions, work in teams and manage them. My final position in AIESEC was that of the head of its St. Petersburg office…

  28.09.2018

• Hot Air Balloons, Telescopes, and Sky Surfing: 2018 ‘Right Rudder!’ Youth Foresight Festival Takes Flight

  …e younger generation to the latest developments in the field of transportation and motivate them to look ahead to its future. Organizers believe that the numerous foresight sessions, competitions, workshops, and meetings with the experts and public figures give participants an opportunity to think about their future careers and foster the youth’s scientific, technica…

  27.09.2018

• ITMO Researchers Receive Grant to Create Urban Development Centers in Russia and Finland

  …Cross-Border Dimensions of Disruptive Information Technologies (CroBoDDIT) is a project that aims to promote breakthrough information technologies in order to develop urban infrastructures. It is implemented as part of the Russian-Finnish cross-border cooperation program and aligns with the Concept of long-term socio-economic development of Russia until 2020. The …

  27.09.2018