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• ITMO Lecturer Wins Business Initiative Contest in Peru

  ITMO alumni Anton Potsulin is a lecturer and coordinator at the Faculty of Technological Management and Innovations’ Center for International Projects – but he is also now a winner of Startup Peru 12G, a major contest for business initiatives. His team’s instant quinoa surpassed around 500 competitors, earning a grant of up to $40,000 for further development.

  15.09.2025

• ITMO Launches Second Season of Scientific St. Petersburg Project

  ITMO’s Center for Science Communication has announced the start of the second season of the Scientific St. Petersburg project. Before the end of 2025, the team will implement over 13 popular science initiatives, from lectures to media projects and from VR tours to crash courses on AI tools. The experts invite St. Petersburg citizens to look at the role of science in the urban environment under a new perspective and become part of interdisciplinary studies.

  14.08.2025

• ITMO and Geoscan To Open Joint Student Construction Bureau for Designing Unmanned Aircraft Systems

  ITMO University and Geoscan, the largest drone manufacturer in Russia, are launching a practice-oriented student construction bureau where students will get to work on industrial tasks from the company’s specialists and learn to design and test unmanned aircraft systems. The center will be opened at ITMO in September.

  14.05.2025

• ITMO Students and Staff Receive Badges of Honor on Student’s Day

  On January 25, celebrated in Russia as Student’s Day, accomplished representatives of St. Petersburg’s universities and citizens of the city were presented with special badges of honor. These medals are awarded to those who have made a notable contribution to moral enlightenment and took an active part in the life of society. Among those celebrated at the ceremony were a student and a staff member from ITMO University.

  26.01.2023

• Russian Government to Invest Nearly Seven Billion Rubles in ITMO Highpark

  On October 20, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin signed an executive order to allocate 6.8 billion rubles to construct ITMO Highpark, a world-class research, education, and innovation center in the satellite city Yuzhny.

  21.10.2022

• ITMO.FUTURE 2.0: Outcomes of the Initiative Contest

  This year, ITMO University launched the ITMO.FUTURE contest for the second time. In March, students and staff could share their ideas on how to improve the university. Until April 21, students who would like to help winners implement their projects can also apply to join their teams.

  13.04.2021

• New Project Defense Format: Study Physics and Improve Soft Skills

  In late December, the students of ITMO’s Faculty of Physics and Engineering were first to try the new format of project defense aimed not only to expand their knowledge of the subject but also to train their presentation and teamwork skills.

  14.01.2021

• Art Project as Thesis Initiative Launches at ITMO

  This year, ITMO University launches a unique initiative that will allow Master’s students to collaborate with each other and create an interdisciplinary project in place of  their thesis. Read more about it in this ITMO.NEWS article.

  12.11.2020