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• Travel Tips: St. Petersburg to Finland

  …Helsinki at least two times a week from April to December, and the entire overnight trip takes just 14 hours, with an added bonus of scenic views for the whole trip. As for trains, the Allegro speed train and Leo Tolstoi sleeper train will take you from St. Petersburg to Helsinki in just 3.5 and 7 hours respectively. Traveling by bus is the cheapest, especially if yo…

  17.04.2018

• Danish Exchange Students Developing Lighting Design Solution for St. Petersburg Park

  … we presented in Copenhagen focused on adding a naturalistic feeling to the urban environment using lighting design to help people relax and feel in touch with nature. We were inspired by drops of water that create ripples as they fall onto a surface. This idea feels at home in St. Petersburg, as it’s also a city built on water. Of course, we didn’t just “copy-and-pa…

  17.04.2018

• Arizona University Expert: Why People Don’t Want to Learn Foreign Languages

  …biggest challenges among those that were discussed at the conference? Which are the most relevant right now? Teachers, regardless of their subject, and heads of educational institutions need to make sure that students use the English language more. One hour of language classes per week is useless. It must be at least an hour a day throughout all years of universit…

  17.04.2018

• Inclusive Education – not a One-Way Street: How to Educate Everyone on Equal Terms

  …urce Training and Methodological Center for the Education of People with Disabilities and Persons with Disabilities of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, Director of the Institute of Defectology Education and Rehabilitation of the RSPU named after. AI Herzen. In your opinion, what are the most pressing issues now facing universities that create centers for i…

  16.04.2018

• New Research Allows Jet-Printing of Piezostructures and Holograms on Any Surface

  …. With direct printing, holograms can be put on paper, plastic or glass. This is possible due to specially developed ink and a controlled printing mechanism. The ink contains submicronic spheres which form into tightly-packed grids when they dry. Passing through them, the light refracts and, depending on the angle of incidence, reflects in different wavelengths.…

  16.04.2018

• Total Dictation-2018 at ITMO University

  … years it has become an international initiative. In 2018, the event was organized for the first time in Costa Rica, Panama, Syria, Qatar, and Hungary, as well as in the mountains of Northern Caucasus, and, for the second time, on the International Space Station. The text for the dictation is always written by a famous writer. This year, it was written by Guze…

  16.04.2018

• Bar Talk: Young Scientists on Making a Career, Finding Your Place and Globalization of Science

  …nce because of many scientists leaving the country in the 90's, which lead to the disruption of intergenerational continuity in science. In some places, though, reputation remains one of the most influential factors: in top American universities, for example, a post can be obtained thanks not only to a scientist’s existing publications, but also through personal refe…

  13.04.2018

• VelVet: How to Invest in Your Favorite Places and Make Money

  … house, 10,000 - in a favorite cafe at work, another 5,000 - in the quest room, where you go with friends on weekends. This amount is a prepayment (deposit) of a service or an institution's goods that a customer can receive. In exchange, the institution will replenish the deposit with an additional amount as a bonus. The larger the depo…

  13.04.2018

• ITMO Student Wins Eiffel Excellence Scholarship

  …political science, and engineering sciences, which include life sciences, nano- and biotechnologies. What’s important about the program is that only French higher education institutions may submit applications, meaning applicants must first contact a university that would represent them. Applications are submitted to Campus France, a public

  13.04.2018

• How Databases Help Find Relevant Data For Research Faster

  …w scientists to save time on gathering information in order to focus on experiments or solving fundamental issues. What Issues Researchers Can’t Solve with Other Online Instruments Representatives of Springer Nature conducted a survey among nanotechnology scientists about the problems they face when using, for example, Google Scholar or Web of Science datab…

  12.04.2018