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• Ace Your Tests and Win a Million: New Innovation-Focused Hackathon Starts at ITMO

  ITMO’s Faculty of Biotechnologies has launched a hackathon onon the development of innovative products for businesses. 111 ITMO Master’s students joined the event, taking on cases from 10 Russian and international companies. Over six months, they will be developing innovative products under the guidance of business mentors. Hackathon winners will receive 1 million rubles.

  04.10.2024

• Samolet CEO Andrey Ivanenko Shares His 8 Steps to Innovations

  Samolet is one of the biggest construction companies in Russia, currently the first in the country in terms of construction volume. Recently, the company has also started producing its own IT solutions for real estate. Why does a construction company need neural networks, what makes the company a tech leader, and how do they introduce innovations into a project? These topics were covered in the lecture by Andrey Ivanenko, the CEO of the company, held as part of ITMO’s PI School for future research leaders. Here are the takeaways.

  19.07.2024

• Cyber-Karate and Fitness Trackers: New Phygital Technologies for Sports

  How are modern technologies making conventional and phygital types of sports more accessible and exciting? More than 750 participants gathered for a discussion on the topic at the nationwide youth contest Phygital Sporttech Innovations Cup. At the finals, which took place at ITMO, businesspeople, students, and staff of Russian universities showed off tech projects that aim to make life easier for coaches, athletes, and amateurs alike. More about the top projects and their benefits – in our article.

  23.05.2024

• ITMO Researchers Present Automated Mobile Laboratory For Artificial Heart Development

  A mini laboratory for managing cell and bacterial systems was created as a result of collaboration between scientists from ITMO University, Siberian Federal University, the Fund for Infrastructure and Educational Programs, and the research and manufacturing association Prolab. The project, recently presented at the Almazov National Medical Research Centre, will be used to grow cell cultures and create experiment-based databases; another avenue opened by the device is the development of an artificial heart. Learn more about the project and the possibilities it presents in this article.

  19.07.2023

• THE Impact Rankings Top 100: ITMO Excels in Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

  This year’s edition of THE University Impact Rankings has been published by Times Higher Education. In the ranking that evaluates universities’ contribution to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, ITMO has secured 73rd place for its initiatives in Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure (SDG 9).

  01.06.2023

• Startups by ITMO Students Win 1 Million Rubles in Funding

  Projects by eleven ITMO students were named best in a student startup contest held by the Foundation for Assistance to Small Innovative Enterprises, with each of the projects being supported by a 1 million ruble grant to see it to fruition. Read on to learn more about these star ideas.

  14.11.2022

• Foods for Longevity and Green Living: BioTech Today

  How do innovative foods extend the human lifespan and improve our quality of life? What kinds of projects in this field are ITMO scientists working on right now? These and other subjects were covered at the Ecology & Biotechnology session of the 51st International Scientific, Educational, and Methodological Conference at ITMO University. ITMO.NEWS spoke to the session’s participants to find out more about their projects and discover which subjects of Food- and BioTech will gain in relevance in the near future.

  11.03.2022

• ITMO Rector Vladimir Vasilyev: A Well-Set Target Guarantees Success

  Today, on October 25, the 19th national forum Strategic Planning of the Regions and Cities of Russia began with a plenary session titled Strategic Talk: Rectors on the Future. ITMO University’s Rector Vladimir Vasilyev shared the strategies universities must focus on and what ITMO does to achieve sustainable development goals.

  25.10.2021

• ITMO Launches IP Exchange Center

  ITMO University has launched IP Exchange – an accelerator that will help obtain patents and protect intellectual property rights. The projects that request the Center’s help will be supervised by Master’s students from the Faculty of Technological Management and Innovations. ITMO Launches IP Exchange Center

  21.07.2021

• ITMO Technopark Resident Among Top Ten Innovative Companies in Education

  A contest to identify the top ten innovative companies in education was organized by Business Priority, the innovation platform of the Roscongress Foundation, with the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, the Ministry of Education, and the Agency of Strategic Initiatives. The winning projects were presented at SPIEF 2021. Among them was a project by NT-SPb, a company that’s been based at ITMO’s Technopark for over ten years creating nanolaboratories for schools. 

  08.07.2021