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• HackDay Finalists: a Talking Toilet Seat, a Virtual Library, and Potato Wedges

  …project we essentially produced from nothing. But our lack of experience in this area didn’t bring us down. As avid participants in hackathons, we tried to look into something new, and even more interesting. The important thing was to find an idea that could be created in practice. This gives us motivation and as a result, opportunities for implementing our plans." –…

  05.04.2016

• Working Together to Change the World Using Bionanophotonics

  … Setting a good tone at European Universities Dmitry Zuev and Sergey Makarov also paid a visit to some long-time partners at Aalto University in Helsinki, to find out about new opportunities that may have arisen. One such example, a strength of Finnish universities is the so called Nanofab – a place that meets all ecological requirements in which one can work with…

  05.04.2016

• Universities Are their Own Bosses

  …was extremely effective. Firstly, there were developed several “roadmaps;” some of goals set by them have been successfully reached. Secondly, it is easier now to do something new because the governmental system of decision making has become more open. Taking into account the difficulties existing in this field the development of Russian technological innovations mak…

  04.04.2016

• St. Petersburg to Champion the Future of Russian Medicine

  …an agreement with the Almazov Center to establish a research cluster "Translational Medicine" with participation of the leading St. Petersburg universities. It will both train new specialists and develop new medical devices and technologies by bringing together various areas of research, from IT to medicine to biology and chemistry. It …

  04.04.2016

• New Labs for Promising Research

• Vladimir Vasilyev: "It's MOre than a University. It's love."

  … only for Russian universities, but also for all universities of the former Soviet Union. From an education system that was based on state planning, we moved into a completely new and incomprehensible for us market conditions. For the period from 1995 to 1997 and part of 1998, we had minimal funding, and from then the wave of privatisation hit. More often than not, t…

  01.04.2016

• The First Russia`s Master`s Program in Science Communication

  …one-time. Thus we have no Master`s programs that are the most effective and appropriate for students,” said Dmitry Malkov, Science Communication and Outreach Officer. The new program will open several career opportunities for future experts such as science journalism, public relations as well as science visualization and promotion. The students will learn the la…

  31.03.2016

• “Top Chairs” at ITMO

  … to the best students of 2015, as well as those university athletes who won city-wide and other competitions. “In an atmosphere of love, we achieve small feats, we create new things, we conduct research and we create new jobs. It’s nice to reiterate that not so long ago our university yet again, presented its accomplishments in Pro…

  30.03.2016

• The World of Science: ITMO Researchers Shared Their Inventions

• Oops We Did It Again

  …Technical University, Moscow Aviation Institute and Tomsk State University. “We decided to make an annual ranking of universities’ entrepreneurial activity. To create any new technology requires a basic education, but equally important, is which universities produce students who are motivated and able to turn these technologies into finished products” – commente…

  29.03.2016