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• French Master's Student on Coming to Russia and Differences from France

  Nicolas Jacquier, a Master’s student at the engineering school ESIEE Paris, has been working on an individual project for 2 months already as part of his internship at ITMO University. He is only staying for three months in total in St. Petersburg where he will work on Big Data visualization. In an interview with ITMO.NEWS, he spoke to us about why Europeans feel right at home in the city, the friendly relationships between professors and students, the pros and cons of writing a Master’s thesis and which European capital the city of St. Petersburg resembles the most.

  03.07.2017

• ICCS 2017 Kicks off in Zurich

  International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS) 2017 got off to a great start in Zurich, Switzerland, on June 12, with top researchers exploring the latest developments in computational methods in a variety of scientific fields. It’s organized by our partners at the Computational Science Lab of the University of Amsterdam, among other distinguished organizations, and is supported by ITMO University.

  13.06.2017

• NAFSA 2017: "In Our Profession We Build Bridges, Not Walls!"

  The NAFSA 2017 exhibition & conference is coming to an end today in Los Angeles, USA. It was held on 28 May - 2 June with over 9,300 educators from around the world including leading universities from Russia participating in Project 5-100.

  02.06.2017

• Big Data and the Russian Dream

  If you’re from Pakistan and are thinking about studying in Russia, you might want to hear about a first-hand account of how it all works, and what studying in Russia could look like for you. In fact, you’ll laugh a lot when you find out how to say “how are you?” and “good” in Russian.

  29.05.2017

• Carving Your Niche

  Of Russian descent, raised in Israel, and after having spent her youth in Canada, Nelly, with a background in history and fine arts returned to us as a native English teacher at ITMO University.

  12.05.2017

• From Lagos to St. Petersburg

  One of ITMO’s most beloved and well-known native English speakers is Chineye Osuoha, more affectionately known as Jayjay. He makes frequent appearances in ITMO photographs and advertisements and having already taught for four years both staff and students of the University, he is already a household name. 

  21.04.2017

• Navigating the ITMO Application Process

  How does one go about choosing their future profession? How can you find out information about all the different departments and faculties, where you will live, what will you do besides studying, what you will do with your career when you graduate? Last Sunday at ITMO University, there was a special Open Day for prospective students. This article is all about helping you, figure out how, our international students, apply to ITMO University from afar. 

  17.04.2017

• Adapting To Russia: International Students Share Their Experience

  Education, communication, traditions, living conditions, food and weather - all of those change dramatically for international students who come to study in Russia. To adapt to the new environment, they can rely on specialists from the International Students Learning and Support Center; yet, having the right attitude is important as well, believe the exchange students from Europe and Brazil who came to ITMO for the IT and Business Innovations in Russia course. In an interview with our newsportal, they shared their experience of studying at ITMO University.

  13.04.2017

• ITMO Fellowship Stories: 'Crystal Is the Heart of Lasers'

  Pavel Loiko came to ITMO to participate in ITMO Fellowship Program. In this interview he shares the details of a project he is working on together with Russian colleagues and talks about the importance of cross disciplinary studies. 

  06.04.2017

• New Horizon in International Education: APAIE 2017

  The 2017 APAIE International Education Conference and Exhibition was held in Kaohsiung, Taiwan last week with over 1,600 delegates from around the world. This conference is one of three major educational events in the world in internationalization, predominantly for the Asia-Pacific region.

  27.03.2017