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• ITMO Students Share Summer Internship Stories

  Every summer, ITMO students travel all over the world to participate in internships and visit the world’s largest companies and universities. Internships have long ago stopped being simple working affairs and are now seen as exciting adventures and a way to gain unique experience. ITMO.NEWS has prepared a few stories about our students’ most fascinating summer internships – from working at Google to being a science journalist in Sicily.

  26.07.2017

• “Formula for Science PR 3.0”: SciComm for the Modern Society

  How does scientific knowledge manage to survive in a distrustful society? What should science journalists do in the post-truth era? How is science communicated in Germany, Italy and Russia? Can science and business finally be friends? The “Formula for Science PR 3.0”, a newly assembled collection of practices and expert opinions in the field of Science Communication, answers all these questions and more. The “Communication Lab” project of the Russian Venture Company (RVC) publishes the only handbook on Science Communication in Russia. Its third edition was developed by ITMO University’s Center for Science Communication: more than 20 experts working in science popularization in Russia and abroad were invited to take part.

  14.07.2017

• American Scientist’s Experts on Scientific Standup Shows and Singing Dinosaurs

  Jamie Vernon, editor-in-chief at American Scientist and head of the Science Communication Department Sigma Xi and Brian Meloy, blogger and science comedian, gave lectures on science communication at ITMO. The experts believe that instead of dry facts and complicated terms one has to use jokes to talk to the public about science.

  06.03.2017

• Society or Scientists: Who Needs Science Communication More?

  Peter Broks, sociologist and visiting professor at Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences and Andrey Kozhanov, Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Higher School of Economics, speakers of the two-day educational course "Theory and Practice of Science Communication", debate on the roles of science communication, its applications and influence on society.

  02.03.2017

• SciComm in Russia: How Does It Work and What’s Its Future?

  If you think that everyone knows that the Earth revolves around the Sun — well, you'd be disappointed. According to data gathered by the Higher School of Economics three years ago, 8% of respondents in Russia still believed it's vice versa. So, what does this mean? At the very least, it means that science writers, communicators and journalists still have a lot to do! During the recent course "Theory and Practice of Science Communication", its participants learned how to speak about complex things to a wide audience, why business needs science communication, and what will be popular science's future.

  02.03.2017

• New Projects by Female Leaders

  How to present a project in a right way? Why informal communication is better than typical negotiations? ITMO’s specialists in higher education and participants of Developing Women Leaders in University Administration program discussed these problems with their American colleagues at the University of California, Los Angeles.

  07.02.2017

• The First Results of the Massive Open Online Course on Science Communication

  Russia’s first online course on Science Communication came to the end. The project was developed by ITMO University in cooperation with experienced science journalists and PR specialists, and presented at the popular "Lectorum" online platform. During the last six weeks, newcomers and skilled popular science experts practiced writing science news and longreads, and organizing research events.

  14.12.2016

• The Communication Laboratory: How to Make Science Popular?

  Building bridges between science, education, publicity and business is a challenging task because all these institutions speak different languages. They need a specific center for communication, which will help them to interact and collaborate. An educational project called Communication Laboratory helps specialists from different fields bridge the communication gap.

  07.11.2016

• Lena Brandt: «Competition Promotes Science Communication»

  European countries invest in such fundamental and expensive projects as the European Organization for Nuclear Research and Large Hadron Collider. However that would be impossible without explaining the necessity of such scientific projects. The question is what Russians know about the state of their domestic science?

  27.09.2016