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  • City of Professions: Career Day at ITMO University

    Last week, ITMO University hosted a major career event - ITMO.City of Professions. This time, 40 participating companies prepared a 5-hours long interactive program for the university’s students and graduates, as well as offered internships and employment for entry-level positions. It has also become the first event of this kind for which the university’s specialists developed a dedicated application - the interactive online map of the city that helps to find a particular company and learn about the positions it offers. ITMO.City of Professions covered five major professional fields: IT, management and innovations science, food industry and biotechnologies, robotics and engineering, and photonics. Apart from the companies that had already taken part in ITMO’s career events before (Sberbank, Sberbank-Technologies, Delovie Linii, Diakont, Veenam and others), several new employers offered students jobs this time. ITMO.NEWS expands on the most interesting of them.

    18.04.2018

  • ITMO Student Wins Eiffel Excellence Scholarship

    A list of recipients of the 2018 Eiffel Excellence Scholarship has recently been published, and Daria  Kuznetcova , a postgraduate student at the Department of Applied Biotechnology, is among the 60 doctorate applicants awarded the scholarship. Participation in the program provides young scientists an opportunity to conduct their research in collaboration with leading French experts in their field. Daria's current research concerns functional foods that can be used to prevent the development of neurodegenerative diseases. ITMO.NEWS asked Daria some questions about her project.

    13.04.2018

  • Master’s Exchange Students on Learning Lighting Design in Copenhagen

    Making a cramped square feel comfortable, improving lives of medical patients and helping school students study better: students from Aalborg University (Denmark) use light to solve these and other tasks. This Scandinavian country is home to more than the concept of hygge – it is also one of the major European centers for modern art; here, lighting design projects aren’t limited to just museums and art spaces, but are actually becoming a part of the urban environment. Valeria Lukinskaya and Dmitry Chukhin, Master’s students at ITMO’s Higher School of Lighting Design, learned about the best practices and approaches in lighting design during an internship at Aalborg University.

    11.04.2018

  • ITMO Master’s Student on E-governance in Estonia and Interning at Tallinn University of Technology

    Imagine not having to go anywhere to vote in  the elections, or having an ID card that you can use to make an appointment at the doctor’s or pay for parking online. This is how it’s done in Estonia, which now boasts one of the world’s best e-government systems; tellingly, the country is often dubbed “e-Estonia” due to the state of its digitalization. Yaroslava Tensina, Master’s student at ITMO’s Department of State Information Systems Management, learned about Estonia’s e-government practices during her recent internship at the Tallinn University of Technology. In an interview for ITMO.NEWS, she spoke about the peculiarities of studying in Estonia and how proper management of information systems can help fight bureaucracy.

    23.03.2018

  • Exchange semester in France: a Life-Changing Experience

    Maria Garets, a student at the Department of Intelligent Technologies in Humanities at ITMO University, spent her winter semester at Eurecom, a graduate school and research centre in communication systems established by one of the top French universities, Telecom ParisTech. Eurecom is located at the heart of Sophia Antipolis, Europe’s largest technopark, a hotbed for internships and job opportunities. ITMO.NEWS asked Maria about her experience of studying in France.

    13.03.2018

  • "Digital Jungle": How To Get an Internship at Your Dream Company, Get a Job at Google and Survive in the IT World

    “Digital Jungle” is the festival for students and their parents, as well as those wanting to change their job, that was held in St. Petersburg last Sunday. This year the festival took place at ITMO University where everyone could learn about the evolution of human-machine interfaces and the development of modern cities, get practical knowledge and talk to the developers of VKontakte, Wargaming, JetBrains, as well as try one’s hand in the CS:GO tournament. Why is it important to start your own project in high school, how to spend quality time at the university and get an internship at Google? Answers to these and other questions can be found in our article.

    19.02.2018

  • Internships in Belgium: How to Apply and What to Expect

    Elena Eremeeva and Daniil Ilatovskiy are Master's students at ITMO's SCAMT laboratory who have recently completed internships at universities in Belgium. They had an opportunity to use new equipment there as well as become acquainted with how research work is conducted in Europe. This experience will help them to better organize their research and improve the operation of the entire SCAMT (Solution Chemistry of Advanced Materials and Technologies) Laboratory. The students were able to take part in the internships thanks to academic mobility competitions organized by the university.

    02.02.2018

  • Generation Z: Who Are They?

    We don’t know much about Generation Z, since they are those born between the mid-1990s and early 2000s and now they are just graduating from college and entering the workforce. But these young people differ in many significant ways from their predecessors. Ksenia Pomogaeva, a first year Master’s student at ITMO University, conducted a research on Gen Z to find out the factors influencing their career choices and ways to motivate this new cohort of workers. The research was carried out jointly with BIOCAD, an international innovative biotechnology company, Ksenia is doing an internship at.

    23.01.2018

  • Initiative Is Encouraged: How To Get Funding From Academic Mobility Support Office

    The contest for getting funding for internships in Russia and abroad conducted by ITMO’s Academic Mobility Support Office gives students an opportunity to go on internships that take up to one month. Such events can be of different formats - internships, conferences, summer and winter schools, seminars, symposiums, and any other kinds of educational and research activities that are conducted in collaboration with other universities and research centers. Those who have already participated in such internships and those who will only just go for one share about the opportunities offered by the contest.

    12.12.2017

  • ITMO’s Master's Students Share Experiences from Ireland Internship

    Yulia Andreeva and Elizaveta Anastasova, Master’s students from ITMO’s Department of Food Microingredients Processing and researchers at the SCAMT International Laboratory, have recently returned from their two-month internship at Trinity College (Ireland). In an interview for ITMO.NEWS, the students talk about what made this internship so different from other, more conventional ones, and what opportunities are offered to students by the Erasmu+ program.

    08.12.2017