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

  …nsport and Our Future’ foresight session. The Russian Cosmic Society is another new partner who has recently joined the ‘Right Rudder!’ festival’s family and already became instrumental in expanding its agenda and promoting it to a wider audience. One of the numerous new events the Society had a hand in creating was an animation workshop given by a famous Sci-Fi w…

  27.09.2018

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

  … Helsinki. The consortium is headed by the Lappeenranta University of Technology. As part of the project, demonstration points-of-contact will be created at educational institutions in three cities: St. Petersburg, Helsinki, and Lappeenranta. The project’s authors explain that the choice of locations was determined by their desire to implement their plans in t…

  27.09.2018

• Limitless Fashion: Developing Adaptive Clothing For The Disabled

  …nable and comfortable. First of all, we consider the  feedback of our target audience and our own concepts: simple, relaxed fit and handy fasteners, as well as such details as insets in sleeves that prevent the fabric from raveling due to contact with a wheelchair. We often ask people with disabilities about things they would’ve liked to change in regular clothing. F…

  27.09.2018

• THE World University Rankings-2019: More Russian Universities Join the Top List

  …egment of THE World University Rankings, having made it to the world top-200 universities to boot. Second place in the national segment of the rankings was taken by the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, which was also listed in the rankings’ top-300. Other A-listers include the Higher School of Economics, which rose to the 301-350 position, and the National…

  26.09.2018

• ‘I am a Professional’ National Student Competition Takes Off

  …ompetition was launched last year. The competition organizers see it as a social elevator for talented and ambitious Bachelor’s and Master’s students from all higher education institutions countrywide. Following last year’s competition results, 434 finalists were given a one-off opportunity to intern for a leading Russian company. Employers searched for and selected …

  26.09.2018

• Twin Campus: New Joint Project by ITMO and XAMK

  …rst place. Not only will we develop cooperation with our Russian partners by focusing it on particular tasks, but also bring these connections to an international level,” explains the head of ITMO's Project Activity and Fundraising Unit. He adds that amongst the university’s other tasks are supporting ITMO’s small innovative enterprises and bringing them to the …

  26.09.2018

• Science Fest: Future is Here

  …ith support. They got so entrenched in old methods that they refuse the gifts the scientific progress brings. So soon after that I decided to quit my job and focused on my app instead,” shares Viktor. Science and Spectacle Planetarium, Lumiere Hall and Yotalab became the most-visited venues. All of these are located a stone’s throw from each other on the Obvo…

  25.09.2018

• METANANO 2018: Professor Stefan Maier on Nanophotonics’ Key Tasks

  … I don’t exclude such a possibility in the future. After moving to Germany, I’ll be getting all the more opportunities to participate in programs by different foundations. For instance, I’ve recently joined an initiative by the Russian Science Foundation (RSF) and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). This can also become a means f…

  25.09.2018

• Signal Peptides as Means to Increasing Longevity

  …duced in 1970), the amount of people older than 60 will once become equal to the amount of people under 60. Such a problem is relevant for Russia, as well: St. Petersburg, for instance, is among the country’s “oldest” cities, as 25% of its population (about 1,200,000 people) are the elderly, which results in an increasing burden on its healthcare, social and pension …

  24.09.2018

• METANANO-2018 Conference on Nanophotonics and Metamaterials Comes to a Close in Sochi

  …The conference was organized by the staff of ITMO’s Faculty of Physics and Engineering. This year’s METANANO was also supported by the Mediterranean Institute of Fundamental Physics (MIFP), Metamorphose VI AISBL, the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), the Far Eastern Federal University, and the companies Neaspec and 

  24.09.2018