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• Young Engineers from Russia Leave to Conquer the World Robot Olympiad

• Lena Brandt: «Competition Promotes Science Communication»

  …l and expensive projects as the European Organization for Nuclear Research and Large Hadron Collider. However that would be impossible without explaining the necessity of such scientific projects. The question is what Russians know about the state of their domestic science? This issue is closely related to scie<…

  27.09.2016

• Expert Opinion: How to Keep Balance between Food Trends and Healthy Lifestyle?

  … of fish or cheese. Don’t be afraid of GMO Before refusing products that contain genetically modified organisms read about Nikolay Vavilov, a famous botanist and genetic scientist and take into account arguments of researchers who explains that if you take a tomato, modified with a fish gene your skin will not be covered with fish scale. Nevertheless, everyone …

  26.09.2016

• Open University: Education For All

  …ITMO was represented by a few speakers, namely Natalya Bystryantseva, Head of the Creative Light Design (CLD) School, talked about how art and science reinforce one another; Sergei Kovalchuk, associate professor of High-Performance Computing Department, who talked about the predictive modelling systems being created at ITMO University that contribute to a more effici…

  26.09.2016

• The People of the Future: Who Are They and How Does One Teach Them?

  …ve to do with new subjects that we now call "technologies". It will be about further education that implies creation of technoparks and reconstruction of technical and natural science's clubs at schools. We'd also use the help of local administrations and universities. The third direction we work on has to do with secondary vocational education in the World Skills sp…

  26.09.2016

• Five Things We Loved Last Week

  …Ig Nobel Prize goes to goat. A man who lived as a goat for three days in the Alps hopped away with this year’s Ig Nobel Prize given for the most useless science. Personality of rocks and the view of the world from your legs were among other studied topics. BBC. From charcoal to words. A 2,000-year-old charred scroll discovered by the Dead Sea revealed its words th…

  25.09.2016

• «Quantum Communications» Has Made a Deal with an Outside Investor

  …ntum Center it developed the pilot segment of the multi-hub quantum network. According to Artur Gleim, head of Quantum Communications, the network system, made by the Russian scientists, transfers data ten times faster than existing quantum systems. Furthermore, the possible transmission distance is 250 kilometers, which is much more than other systems provide. Thus…

  23.09.2016

• The Question of Innovation: What Scientists Should Be Nourished?

  … Universities can also initiate interaction with companies by providing commercialization of their ideas. According to Alina Akinshina, project manager of Directors' Club for Science and Innovations, however before organizing technological transfer one has to understand how universities can actually contribute to development of companies. Many universities open spec…

  22.09.2016

• ITMO University in the Times Higher Education Ranking for the First Time and Amongst Russia’s Top Three

  …ing positions on the world research market, convergence of informational and photonic technologies, their translation into socially significant areas — from medicine and urban science to arts — were reflected in the World University Rankings. «Even in an economic crisis, we continue to work on serious projects and always have several orders. Most of our academic…

  21.09.2016

• Volunteering in St. Petersburg: Present Situation and Prospects

  …This was the second «Heart to Heart» festival in the city, and this time it included several new theme-based platforms — including one dedicated to science, where young scientists from ITMO's University Technopark and the OLYMP association presented their experiments. It was one of the most popular platforms, noted Maria Yakovleva, vice…

  21.09.2016