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Education For Everyone: Global Experts Discuss Future of Open Education
…t and Partnership. Together with Nikolay Khaustov, a delegate of the Russian Federation to UNESCO, she represented Russia among the experts involved in working on the new Recommendation. As Ms. Romanenko notes, ITMO University is a major participant in the initiative and there is a reason for its inclusion in the creation of recommendations on international …
05.06.2019
This Weekend in St. Petersburg: June 8-9
…o much? Sleeping too sound at night? Time to meet the wee ol’ friend called “existential dread”, and Manege Central Exhibition Hall is ever obliging to deliver. As part of its new project, Museum Line, Manege will display works by various contemporary artists, starting with Dmitry Kawarga’s sculpture series “Toxicosis of anthropocentrism”, which aims to penetrate to …
05.06.2019
Study Abroad Tips: Packing for Your Trip
… native language abroad, so take a book or an e-reader with you. When far away from home, even a small familiar thing like your favorite mug or a book can help you adjust to a new culture and cope with homesickness. Daria Korotaeva, spent a term studying in Darmstadt, Germany Before going to Germany, I asked the International Educational Programs Office to pu…
04.06.2019
How Cerevrum Inc Uses VR to Boost Social Skills
…te the benefit of that. For example, an employee may have learned a script and improved sales by 12%. This is the KPI we bring: indicators in education and in business. It’s a new area for Russia; usually, training and profits are handled by different departments that have nearly no interaction with each other, and nobody measures training in profit. Can you d…
04.06.2019
ITMO Is Placed Third in National IT Ranking
…ts of monitoring conducted by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education. The results of the analysis conducted by the Interfax SCAN system for the comprehensive analysis of news are also taken into account. The majority of the information analyzed is provided by the universities in the form of a survey. IT Ranking by RAEX This year’s IT Ranking is the first …
04.06.2019
Participants and Organizers on New Russian-German Exchange Program
…The new program that was launched last year and is now available for ITMO students was called “The other side of culture”. It is the result of a collaboration between ITMO’s sports and recreation center Yagodnoye and the German center Jugendbegegnugstätte am Tower Heiner Janik Haus (“Meeting Point by the Tower”). According to its organizers, the program’s key goal…
04.06.2019
Speak like a Russian: Speaking of Rain
Smoke and Mirrors: ITMO’s Lighting Designers to Present Projects at Light Nights in Gatchina Festival
…work with it on other festivals too. Participating in “Light Nights in Gatchina” is a very valuable experience that gives you an opportunity to experiment, to create something new and immediately get the audience’s feedback. We’re once again planning to make use of this opportunity this year, and trying our hand at a new field while at …
03.06.2019
ITMO Researchers Develop Alternative Liquid-Based THz Radiation Source
…s Femtomedicine Laboratory). Terahertz sources Due to its wide range of applications, the majority of current-day research on terahertz radiation concerns the search for new, more stable, powerful, and effective sources. The golden standard, and the most common sources of THz radiation, are solid-state materials, although air- and gas-based sources also exist. …
03.06.2019
Konstantin Zaytsev, One of Top-5 Young Russian Scientists in Systems Biology, on Systems Biology in Russia
…. Why did you choose to not focus on industrial programming but got interested in science, namely systems biology? I think my main motivation is the opportunity to generate new knowledge. Actually, I have quite a story with biology. I graduated from a lyceum with a focus on physics and mathematics, and I didn’t have a teacher who would’ve shown me that biology is …
31.05.2019