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• ITMO Technopark in 2020: Tech Business, New Clubs, and International Cooperation

  2020 has been a tough year for business, but life at ITMO Technopark hasn’t stopped: the year was marked by new clubs and platforms, innovative tech projects, international schools and festivals, as well as a record number of applications for ITMO’s Preaccelerator and Accelerator programs. Here’s what happened in the technology business this year.

  31.12.2020

• ITMO University’s Alumni Entrepreneur Club

  This club will let entrepreneurs who graduated from ITMO University meet each other, create joint projects, supervise young startups, and look for talents among current students.

  02.11.2020

• Celebration for Children Student Club: Bringing Smiles All Year Around

  As you might know, ITMO University has an abundance of student clubs. This time, we decided to tell you about, perhaps, one of the brightest and colorful of them all – the Celebration for Children children’s aid club. We talked to the current head of the club, Katerina Ikonnikova, to learn what drives its members, how they come up with ideas, and how the club is handling the challenges of the pandemic.

  13.10.2020

• What is ITMO's Buddy System and How Does it Work?

  The Buddy System is a project that brings together international and Russian students. ITMO.NEWS met with its head Anna Gargalyk to learn more about the club’s foundation, its events and members, and also asked her to describe the ideal Buddy.

  07.10.2020

• ITMO University and Gazprom Neft Launch Energy Club

  The new club will host hackathons, lectures, seminars, and internship programs for students in the oil and gas sector to help them learn how to solve high-tech energy tasks.

  30.09.2020

• ITMO Graduate Wins National Theses Competition

  Vadim Rybin, a Bachelor's graduate of the Faculty of Photonics and Optical Information, won the national competition of theses called Be First in the Physics and Astronomy category. Now, Vadim is pursuing a Master’s degree. He discussed his thesis and scientific interests with ITMO.NEWS, and also told us how he created the “It’s a trap” student club, whose members are engaged in the study of ion traps.

  15.09.2020

• Introduction Days 2020: Welcoming New Students

  From August 31 to September 4, 2020, ITMO University hosted Introduction Days (link in Russian) for first-year Bachelor’s and Master’s students. The event was created last year to introduce new students to the university’s system, the opportunities it offers – and above all, each other. ITMO.GO, a large-scale celebration traditionally marks the end of the introductory block.

  04.09.2020

• ITMO’s Buddy System: Helping International Students Feel at Home

  Every student who has ever been on exchange knows how hard it can be to adapt to the new surroundings, get all your papers sorted, and adjust to the new timetable and academic process. It’s important to have someone you can ask for help at this time, a friendly face you can look for in a crowd of your new fellow students – and that is where buddies come in to save the day. At ITMO, these are found in Buddy System, a student club whose manager, Anna Gargalyk, I caught up with for this interview. 

  26.05.2020

• ITMakeup: Beauty, Self-Acceptance and Online Makeup Tutorials

  ITMakeup, a student club dedicated to promoting self-acceptance and educating its members on how to use makeup in their everyday life, faced a unique challenge in recent times. As the university went online, it had to figure out how to engage with its members remotely, when everything was already in place for in-person beauty sessions. We caught up with Maria Shvedova, Polina Guseva and Olga Kokorina to talk about how they're finding ways to thrive, their inspiration and future plans.

  12.05.2020

• ITMO’s Intelligentsia Culture Club: Be Kinder to Others and Never Fear Change

  We all know that St. Petersburg is a city where culture in all its diverse shapes and forms can be found in abundance – what with all the libraries, theaters and museums that surround you literally every time you go out for a walk. Sometimes it feels like the magic of its theaters, museums and libraries can only be discovered by the trusted few. Well, those at Intelligentsia, ITMO’s culture club, happen to know just how to break this uncanny spell. 

  10.03.2020