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• European Hackathon Winners Came to ITMO to Study Programming

  The Open Data Hackathon took place in May, in Bolzano (Italy), bringing together developers and data scientists from all across Europe. For 24 hours, the teams worked on creating a working prototype based on one of their ideas. The winners of the hackathon took the main prize: a trip to St. Petersburg for a two-day intensive programming course at ITMO University. This year, ITMO has become a seven-time winner of ACM ICPC and remains the world record holder for most wins

  18.07.2017

• Unexpected Russia: Interview with Chris Hastings

  This weekend we say goodbye to our English language fellow from the United States, Dr. Chris Hastings. After two years in Russia at ITMO University, he shares with us what brought him to St. Petersburg, some of his highlights of living in Russia, and what it was like working here.

  07.07.2017

• How to get a grant for studying in USA or France? Master students from ITMO share their experiences

  Four master students from the Department of IT in the Fuel and Energy Industry of ITMO University are going to spend the next academic year abroad. Evgeniy Oskolkov, Georgiy Bogdanov and Sergey Rigin won a grant for studies in the New Mexico Highlands University in the USA and Anastasia Strusevitch achieved a grant for one year studies in Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan (ENS de Cachan) in France. In September it will be the time for departure to the partner universities. At the end of their studies, these students will be able to get two diplomas, both the Russian and foreign ones.

  07.07.2017

• 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