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• Educational Forum It’s Your Call! Brings Students From 20 Russian Regions to ITMO

  ITMO University has recently hosted It’s Your Call! – an educational forum held annually in St. Petersburg for the finalists of the I Am a Professional contest. At the event, participants get to attend expert-led lectures, work on industrial cases, and tour major tech companies; the most successful ones win the chance to enroll in the country’s best universities, including ITMO, without exams. Discover what other opportunities the event opens up in the article.

  24.04.2026

• Programming & IT Among I Am a Professional’s Most Selected Tracks

  As a result of the qualifying round of the I Am a Professional competition, the ITMO-organized track Programming & IT became the most popular among participants from the Northwestern Federal District. The university was also placed within the top three universities in St. Petersburg by the number of students who proceeded to the contest’s finals.

  16.01.2026

• All About ITMO’s New Track for I Am a Professional Contest

  This season of the I Am a Professional contest welcomes a new track by ITMO University – Product Management in Digital Business. Medalists, winners, and diploma holders of the I Am a Professional Competition have the chance to receive up to 300,000 rubles, an opportunity to enter Russia’s top universities, or an internship at a major company. To learn more about the new track and its tasks, we turned to Alexander Volkov, curator of the track and head of the educational program Technologies and Innovations by ITMO’s Faculty of Technological Management and Innovations.

  13.10.2025

• I Am a Professional Season 9: All About Information and Cyber Security Track

  Medalists, winners, and diploma holders of the I Am a Professional Competition have the chance to receive up to 300,000 rubles, an opportunity to enter Russia’s top universities, or an internship at a major company. This year, ITMO curates several of the contest’s tracks, including Information and Cyber Security. Read on to learn more about the track and how to prepare for its tasks from Alexander Menshchikov, curator of the track and dean of ITMO’s Faculty of Secure Information Technologies. The track’s general partner is Sberbank.

  09.10.2025

• I Am a Professional Season 9: All About Programming and IT Track

  The new season of the I Am a Professional contest has officially launched – registration is ongoing! Medalists, winners, and diploma holders have the chance to receive up to 300,000 rubles, an opportunity to enter Russia’s top universities, or an internship at a major company. This year, ITMO curates four of the contest’s tracks, including Programming and IT. Learn more about the tasks to expect, the opportunities open to winners, and other details in this article with tips from Nikolay Andreev, an assistant at ITMO’s Information Technologies and Programming Faculty. The track’s general partner is Sberbank.

  30.09.2025

• I Am a Professional: Applications Open for the Contest’s 9th Season

  Starting today, September 9, students can apply to join the 9th season of the I Am a Professional competition. Winners will receive up to 300,000 rubles, exam-free admission to the top universities in Russia, and internship opportunities at major Russian companies. Here is how you can take part in the contest.

  09.09.2025

• Startups, Metaverses, and Competitive Programming: 8th Educational Forum It’s Your Call! Kicks Off at ITMO

  On July 8-12, ITMO University will host the 8th educational forum It’s Your Call! At the event, participants of the national student competition I Am a Professional will learn how to use IT in business cases, develop digital products, and launch startups. At the case championship, students will tackle a real-world case from the event’s general partner Sberbank.

  04.07.2025

• ITMO Among Leaders of I Am a Professional Competition

  The 8th season of the I Am a Professional student competition has recently wrapped up, revealing that ITMO is once again at the top of the list of participating universities. Improving upon the results of last year, 13 ITMO students have earned the latest competition’s medals, while 120 more featured as runners-up.

  11.06.2025

• Lectures, Projects, Robots: St. Petersburg Hosts Finals of I Am a Professional Contest

  The final stage of the national student competition I Am a Professional recently took place in St. Petersburg, bringing together participants from 10 Russian universities. The students presented their projects to a jury featuring experts from Sber, ITMO, Navio, Robowizard and StarLine – and visited the laboratories of the Faculty of Control Systems and Robotics to acquaint themselves with new engineering solutions. 

  24.04.2025

• I Am a Professional Student Contest: Top Tracks in St. Petersburg

  Among the students from St. Petersburg who took part in the eighth season of the I Am a Professional student competition, the following tracks turned out to be the most popular: Programming and Information Technologies; Medicine and Pediatrics; and Artificial Intelligence. This year, the total number of applications reached 185,000 – over 16,000 of them from St. Petersburg.

  15.11.2024