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• ITMO Goes to India: Building the Future Together

  The formula to our success is partnerships and collaborations. We are where we are today thanks to the immense support from our partners like Parul University. Our bond with the Indian university has been very strong for years. Every year, many of its students visit ITMO along with their professors to participate in summer schools and internships. This December, ITMO staff members Ekaterina Rassolenko and Yulia Shik visited India to attend Parul University’s International Week. What were the main highlights of this event? What new opportunities can students expect? Let’s learn it all from Ekaterina and Yulia.

  10.01.2023

• Staff Spotlight: Ekaterina Rassolenko, International Admissions Office

  Every year, hundreds of international students come to ITMO as well as travel abroad as part of academic mobility programs. Naturally, a lot of effort goes into making it happen. Let’s take a sneak peek into the workings of ITMO’s International Admissions Office through the words of Ekaterina, an employee since 2018.

  06.10.2022

• International Opportunities at ITMO: Students Share Their Experiences

  One of the benefits of studying at ITMO University are the many opportunities to gain international experience. There are so many ways that ITMO students can develop their intercultural communication skills and study or collaborate on research with people from all around the world. What are the options and why should you do it? Learn about it first-hand from our students!

  25.01.2022

• Alina Zashkola on her Exchange Semester in the United States

  Alina Zashkola is a Bachelor’s student in Business Informatics at ITMO from the city of Kingisepp not far from St. Petersburg. Recently, she got the opportunity to spend an academic year in the USA as an exchange student. She has been in Naperville, Illinois, for a month already and we got the chance to catch up with her to learn more about the program, the application procedure, and her experiences so far.

  23.09.2021

• ITMO’s Russian Language and Culture Summer School: A Passion for Learning

  Since 2016, ITMO University has hosted a Russian language summer school for language learning enthusiasts around the world. This year, from July 1 to 28, the school was held online for the first time with 22 participants from 10 countries including Canada, China, the UK, the USA and several countries in Europe. We talked to a few of the participants to learn about their experiences during the summer school and what attracted them to Russian language and culture. 

  28.07.2020

• “Best Choice I’ve Ever Made”: ITMO Graduate Kseniya Zavatskaya on Her Education and Career in Optics

  Kseniya Zavatskaya studied quantum electronics for her Bachelor’s, but never found a solid application for the knowledge she acquired. As a Master’s student at ITMO University, she discovered her future calling and found employment less than a month after graduation. Kseniya spoke to ITMO.NEWS and explained why she chose applied optics, how her career has unfolded since, and what advice she would give to future engineers.

  15.05.2020

• Study Abroad at Home: ITMO University Student’s Experience

  Evgenia Ponomareva, a student at the Faculty of Photonics and Optical Information, and an employee at the Laboratory of Femtosecond Optics and Femtotechnologies, was supposed to study abroad, at Aalto University (Finland) from January to May. However, due to the pandemic, she had to return to St. Petersburg in March. She continues her studies at Aalto University remotely. Evgenia tells us how she studies in Finland from Russia and continues her research from home.

  16.04.2020

• Nahid Aktar: The Combination of Art and Science has a Broad Future

  Coming all the way from the subtropical monsoon climate of Bangladesh, Nahid Aktar is a Master’s student at ITMO University’s Art & Science program where she explores new ways of teaching as she grows her professional career.   

  05.03.2020

• Smaragda Georgouli: Art is Not a Hobby, It’s a Way of Life

  Smaragda (Esmeralda) Georgouli comes from Greece, she is currently enrolled in a Bachelor’s in Athens, studying European and International Studies, at the University of Piraeus. She came to ITMO for an exchange semester in Industrial ecology. Fascinated by her point of view on different subjects — especially on her interest in art — we decided to have a small chat. 

  27.02.2020

• Entrepreneur, Law Firm Founder, and Master’s Student Rodion Juryev: You Only Live When You Learn

  Rodion Juryev studies cognitive technologies and quantum intelligence at ITMO University – all while running a legal firm and a business in Skolkovo, applying for patents for his inventions, and planning his PhD studies. This semester, he joined an academic mobility program to travel to Universidad de Monterrey (Mexico), where he studies financial viability assessment and production planning and control in addition to learning the Spanish language. Rodion spoke with us and explained why he decided to get a Master’s degree despite having accomplished himself as a legal expert and an entrepreneur, how he combines work and studies, and what experiences his exchange semester in Mexico has given him.

  19.02.2020