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• Wiki-Conference 2016: The Problem of Rights and Freedom

  …ss and the development of social networks should help people make conscious decisions, — still, it's the way round, in fact — believes Ivan Zasurski, head of the Department of New Media and Communication Theory of the M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University. «We are now at the „Dark Ages“. In Middle Ages that was the time when people lost access to cultural values …

  03.10.2016

• From Fashion to the Everyday Life: What is a «Smart Chameleon Jacket»?

• A Women’s Job: ITMO’s PhD Student on Her Award-Winning Project

• New ITMO Accelerator Creating Businesses that Benefit Society

  … term «social entrepreneurship» is yet to be legislated in Russia. A bill was submitted to the state Duma three years ago, then the Ministry of Economic Development proposed a new version, but work on it was suspended after public hearings. In different countries, social entrepreneurship looks different, explained Yuri Kuporosov, a representative of the Social…

  29.09.2016

• Affairs of the Heart: How to Fight Cardio Diseases by Medicine and IT

  …working on the project PhD students sometimes find the data, which biologists could hardly hope to get. Thus, the 12 months collaboration has resulted in the launching of five new parallel projects. «The main thing is that we have learnt to understand each other. We use completely different approaches to the research. Programmers can solve tasks quickly by using …

  29.09.2016

• Student Entrepreneurship — Foreign Experts Share their Experience

• Grants of 2016: ITMO University will get 90 million rubles funding for developing new hybrid materials for a new generation of optoelectronics

  …According to Sergei Makarov, there is a tendency to nanophotonics: researching new materials for creating metamaterials that have unique properties — ones you won't find in nature. For instance, gold nanoparticles were used as the basis for many materials. Yet, now they use nitrides of metals in USA and silicon instead of gold in Australia. The developments of the

  28.09.2016

• Young Engineers from Russia Leave to Conquer the World Robot Olympiad

  …sed by ITMO University’s Youth Robotic Center. Elementary and high school students from Moscow and St. Petersburg will represent Russia at the competition on November 25−27 in New Delhi. The World Robot Olympiad takes place annually since 2004. Nowadays 54 countries have joined the competition. Hosted by a new country every year, the W…

  27.09.2016

• Lena Brandt: «Competition Promotes Science Communication»

  …is offered a government order you strive no longer. Nobody tries to close RAS’s centers — they can still easily apply for grants. However it needs some time to get used to the new order of things. Unfortunately the problem of state-based models of science communication in Russia is quite young — it has only been around for three years. The renaissance of science a…

  27.09.2016

• The Second International Spatial Development Forum in St. Petersburg

  …mitage Museum that hosted the forum, called St. Petersburg the best place for discussing the problems of urbanization. Despite the fact that the city is constantly growing and new innovative technologies are being introduced, Russia's «Northern Capital» succeeds in retaining its historical appearance. This often calls for extreme, unconventional solutions — believes …

  26.09.2016