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Science communication: promoting science to masses
…ITMO University scientific communications specialist, abroad, where they realized the importance of the bilateral dialogue between science and society earlier than in Russia, the direction called scientific democracy develops. The society has the right to vote in deciding which areas of science should be supported more than others. Such people power is true, since mo…
07.05.2015
Promising partnership: Russia continues cooperation with Brazil
… The trip purpose was development of cooperation between leading Russian and Brazilian universities. The first steps in this direction were made in 2014 at the European Association for International Education (EAIE) conference in Prague. After that, by the invitation of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, Brazilian universities’ manager…
30.04.2015
Russian and American universities implement joint projects in sustainable development frameworks
… on experimental data, accurate calculations and mathematical modeling. During the visit, the Russian delegates visited Missouri and Kansas universities, the biodiesel production laboratory, student experimental farm, plant for solid waste sorting, and also visited the "green" city of the US - Greensburg. In 2007 it was completely destroyed by a tornado, bu…
30.04.2015
Oracle company representatives visited ITMO University
… Oracle specializes in the database control systems production, middleware software and business applications. As a result of the Sun Microsystems takeover in 2009 the Oracle company became the server hardware manufacturer. As of the year 2014, the corporation has 122,000 employees, its divisions are located in more than 145 countries worldwide. Russia is no excep…
30.04.2015
University of Kassel is ITMO University's new partner
…niversity's employees and discussed partnership areas," Polina Kachurina, the Innovative Projects and Initiatives Development Department manager, said. One of interesting interaction vectors is start-ups and young entrepreneurs' initiatives support. The Kassel University representatives agree with their Russian counterparts that universities have become importa…
27.04.2015
Students discussed Baltic region environmental issues at international conference in Poland
… "Feeding the planet without destroying it: can the food production be stable?" has become the topic of the conference this year. The issue of presentations and discussion dealt with the organic farming, relationship between food, climate and landscape, prospects of the food industry development in various regions of the planet. The conference was initiat…
24.04.2015
Parliamentarism in Russia was discussed at Mariinsky Palace
…eputies in an informal atmosphere. " The initiative to hold the conference came from Marina Shishkina, the deputy of the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly, who was the main section moderator. "I'm glad that a lot of people came to the conference. It means that the parliamentary system is a phenomenon, interesting not only for the current deputies, but…
24.04.2015
BRICS countries universities will prepare professionals together
… signed a memorandum of cooperation in this area and decided to create the Universities League and the Network BRICS University. On the creation of the structure and the function definition of the Network BRICS University all the universities interested in it are working now. As Ekaterina Tulugurova says, the head of the ITMO University International Educat…
23.04.2015
St. Petersburg establishes cooperation with Armenian universities
…od technologies field became the topic of the meeting with the Armenian National Agrarian University staff. "Armenia traditionally has been strong in the wine and cheese production, the education in these areas in Yerevan is of the highest quality and our colleagues are competent in brewing and dairy products processing. It is expected that we will exchange s…
23.04.2015
Making world better: social entrepreneurship experience in Russia and USA
…is. Such a rush is not seen in our country, unfortunately," Andrey says. Andrey sees the reasons for this in the fact that in Russia there is practically no experience of interaction between non-profit organizations and students. Such initiatives exist in the Higher School of Economics - National Research University and in the Graduate School of Management, but…
21.04.2015