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• Grand Chess Fest: ITMO Participants On Noble Game’s Unfading Appeal

  …uslan Pescherov competed as amateurs. Thanks to their ace chess skills and expertise, ITMO University team came first in the Grand Chess Tournament’s business-team event. ITMO.NEWS met the bemedalled winners to talk about the noble game and how their chess skills help them in their everyday life. Ruslan Pescherov, PhD, ITMO University graduate My main inter…

  10.09.2018

• Living in Russia Crash Course

• Movie Fridays: A Quick Fix

  … Putting faces to stories, spilling light on the curious origins of the most boring things of our daily humdrum, and dismantling ‘the grand chessboard’ to the little bricks of news that really matter: in its own words, the Great Big Story global media company is a poet of ‘the untold, the overlooked and the flat-out amazing’. With its kaleidoscopic storytelling, quir…

  07.09.2018

• Disability and Accessible Environment: Participants of Exchange Program on Japan’s Best Practices

  …s that method as not comfortable enough, and is currently developing taxis with retractable ramps that would allow to get in the taxi without leaving the wheelchair. All these new inventions are being designed in preparation for the 2020’s Summer Paralympic Games. Barrier-free Act Natalya Startseva: They have a law in Japan that obliges organizations to cre…

  07.09.2018

• Internship at MIT: Active Learning, Virtual Reality, and Entrepreneurial Skills

  …k part in the internship. “During the internship, I revised the structure of the course I teach at ITMO in order to make it more logical and consistent, came up with some new testing formats, and added more “active learning” elements into the course. But I would also like to implement some other techniques I learned about at the internship in my future work,” co…

  07.09.2018

• Climbing Mountains and Doing Research: How ITMO Students Spent Their Summer

  …ival, the department I came to had a field section. We left the city for five days, and attended workshops and lectures; this was a great opportunity to get acquainted with my new colleagues and spend time outside. My research adviser from the German institute helped me adapt to the work process of their laboratory, and was always ready to answer any questions I had.…

  06.09.2018

• The Land of the Rising Sun: Politeness, Self-Management, and Nature Conservation

  …d and efficient the Japanese are. We had a jam-full program agenda, but everything was very well arranged and thought-out. What was most difficult was the language barrier. I knew that for a long time Japan was a country closed-off from the outside world, but still hoped that English as the world’s lingua franca had found its way in here, too. But it wasn’t as widesp…

  06.09.2018

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: September 8-9

  …at 1pm and concludes at 6pm. Tickets cost 100 rub and can be purchased on the Yelagin park’s website or at the park’s ticket office. Have a great weekend! Yours truly, ITNO.NEWS…

  05.09.2018

• ITMO.Highpark Begins New Stage of Development

• Why ITMO is More than a University

  …. It also offers access to individual sports such as yoga and swimming at various facilities around town. Start from the beginner level or keep your sport career going and win new medals for ITMO University, or just come to wacht for the fun of it. ITMO.travel Need to get out of town? ITMO.Travel club organizes excursions to North-West Region of Russia, Baltic…

  04.09.2018