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• Summit the Peak: Skolkovo’s Andrey Volkov on Parallels Between Team Management and Mountain Climbing

  Team management in business is not unlike climbing a mountain: there is a group of professionals who have to constantly make decisions – planning their route, sharing resources, and acting in challenging weather conditions. Any mistake can be fatal. How can you avoid this outcome, why is it crucial to understand each other, and how can you learn to do it? Look for answers to these questions in our keynotes from the PI School’s lecture of Andrey Volkov, the head of the Social Strategies Institute at Skolkovo, the scientific supervisor of Priority 2030 program, and a mountaineer with 40 years of experience.

  10.07.2024

• Seven Words that Describe ITMO in 2017

  It’s been a fantastic year with lots of victories for ITMO University. We love our university and we love how it’s dynamically progressing and advancing to greater heights, even having a mountain peak named after ITMO. The year is coming to an end and to celebrate we want to share with you seven of the hottest words that describe ITMO in 2017. 

  29.12.2017

• Mountaineers Name Peak After ITMO University

  This summer, Vadim Veiko, head of ITMO University’s Department of Laser Technologies and Systems, who has been a mountaineer for more than 50 years, and Alexei Orudzhev, an ITMO alum, engineer and a mountaineering club trainer, have successfully climbed an unexplored peak in the Pamir Mountains, located at 4729 meters above the sea level. The previously unnamed mountain, located near the Lenin Peak, now bears the name of ITMO University Peak. In an interview with ITMO.NEWS, Veiko speaks about their journey, routes, riding on horseback, lasers and volcanoes.

  28.08.2017