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• Change of Seasons: Autumn is Love

  …hibli junkies, and Adrift, in which the British radio veterans Geoff Lloyd and Annabel Port discuss their hilarious experiences of being socially awkward in a harsh world of fully functioning humans. A friend of mine recently let me in on Oprah’s SuperSoul Conversations, and I have to (sheepishly) say I’m pretty hooked, too, so I’ve got enough material to keep me goi…

  02.10.2018

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

  …kovo Airport For the first time ever, Pulkovo Airport offers paid internships in several fields: data processing and transfer, communication and security systems, and airport production systems. During the internships, students will get the opportunity to try their hand at different activities and find out what they like most. Successful participants will be offer…

  02.10.2018

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

  …e back to school, they dragged me into a classroom full of teachers, and they gave me a standing ovation. Then I realized: this is it. After this success, I was approached by Connection, a deafblind support foundation located in Moscow. I work in close cooperation with them now; it is thanks to Connection that I get to test my apps. …

  02.10.2018

• Fighting Talk: Management Sparrings Participants Discuss their Experience

  …Express sparrings also see participants engage in a conflict situation; however, although each of them is set a specific negotiation position, they only have a minute to put it into action, after which the roles are swapped. Rather than evaluating the quality of their solutions, this kind of challenge tests participants’ reactions: how …

  01.10.2018

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

  …rospects for its use, and how will it help from the sociocultural standpoint? At WAAG, we conduct a whole range of public research that focuses on tasks existing at the intersection of science, technology and art. We believe that it’s most important to develop in an interdisciplinary manner: combine different competencies and involve experts from multiple fiel…

  01.10.2018

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

  …ers, Hebrew. What is special about the tours we offer is that they are created by locals who draw on their unique background and interests. It is thanks to this that our tour collections boasts such gems as a ramble through the city courtyards or a bar crawl, but few people actually get to complete the latter for obvious reasons. People appreciate the individua…

  28.09.2018

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

  …le. Look around: standing with us are celebrated hang gliders, accomplished members of the Russian Cosmic Society, and visionary designers who work on the forefront of vehicle construction. We’ve all gathered here to dream together,” said Marina Lebedeva to the festival’s participants. The first two ‘Right Rudder!’ festivals were aimed at school children and stu…

  27.09.2018

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

  …ground-breaking ideas. The first startup to begin working with the demo-centers will be a project by ITMO researchers that aims to use technologies to set up a separate waste collection system. Using a blockchain-based mobile application, citizens will participate in an automated waste collection system and profit from it. The projec…

  27.09.2018

• Limitless Fashion: Developing Adaptive Clothing For The Disabled

  …ly, not everyone can afford that, so many people with disabilities wear regular clothing. We aim to make clothing with simple fit in order to minimize expenses and time spent on production, and thus lower the cost of the final product. Nevertheless, our prices are still higher than those of the mass market, as it is custom tailoring clothing that we make. How …

  27.09.2018

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: September 29-30

  …-century artists Xan and Julie Krohn at Arts Square Gallery (Sept. 27), open lectures on modern Nordic children’s literature (Sept. 29), and screenings of Films From the North, a selection of Scandinavian short films from the Tromsø International Film Festival, at Rodina cinema (Sept. 29, 30 at 7 PM). The total runtime is 89 minutes; find tickets here. As the weat…

  26.09.2018