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• Math for Business & Life: St. Petersburg Hosts Its First Large Mathematical Workshop

  Aimed to create a nationwide network of mathematical centers, the Large Mathematical Workshop brings together school and university students, mathematics teachers, and experts from all over Russia. This year, the project took place in St. Petersburg – at ITMO University – for the first time and attracted over 50 people from ten Russian cities. Participants worked on cases inspired by real-world research and business tasks.

  29.07.2025

• ITMO To Develop New Russian System for Training AI Specialists

  ITMO’s Research Center “Strong AI in Industry” has won the competition held by the Analytics Center of the Government of Russia. Now, the ITMO department is about to develop role-based competency models that will help objectively evaluate an AI specialist’s training, as well as advance the competencies of lecturers. An additional focus will be the development of educational programs in AI. The initiative received 25 million rubles in funding.

  27.06.2025

• 155 Teachers in Russia Took AI Course by ITMO and Alfa-Bank

  ITMO University and Alfa-Bank collaborated on a joint continuous professional development course to help teachers master AI and learn how to use innovative technologies in the classroom. The course was taken by 155 people from 52 cities in Russia and the CIS countries.

  27.11.2024

• AI, Gamification, and Storytelling: Winners of This Year’s ITMO EduLeaders Competition

  The fourth ITMO EduLeaders competition for educators has recently concluded at ITMO. Participants presented unique and innovative educational projects, with a special emphasis on AI features. Each winner received 250,000 rubles. Discover their projects in this article. 

  18.11.2024

• Yandex’s New Contest Lets Students Try Their Hand at Teaching IT

  Yandex Academy, the tech company’s educational branch, has launched a contest which lets Bachelor’s, Master’s, and PhD students enrolled in IT-related programs aid their lecturers. The winners will be offered a temporary position as teaching assistants for the next one or two semesters. The application deadline is May 22. Keep reading to find out more about the various responsibilities that this job entails.

  19.05.2023

• ChatGPT For School: How Students Use Neural Networks To Their Advantage

  The viral ChatGPT is becoming more and more powerful every day: it can now gather information, code, and even generate scripts. Though educational leaders are wary of its possible pitfalls, especially ever since a student confessed to using ChatGPT for his graduation paper, it can and already does create true value for teachers and students alike. In order to demonstrate its vast applications, ITMO hosted a meetup on the best ML and AI practices for the classroom.

  31.03.2023

• Yandex Scientific Award Laureate Aleksei Shpilman on Developing AI in Russia

  Aleksei Shpilman had his start in bioinformatics, but later turned to developing AI technologies at Yandex, JetBrains, and Gazprom Neft. With the Ilya Segalovich Award from Yandex and several international contest wins under his belt, Aleksei sees training AI specialists as one of his key missions. In this article, the researcher explains what makes AI “magical,” how mathematics and algorithms can help people, and what can be done to bridge business and education.

  17.03.2023

• Study and Teach: How to Become a Top-Notch Lecturer with ITMO.Mentors

  From 2020 onwards, ITMO has been offering the ITMO.Mentors program for Master’s and PhD students striving to teach and potentially pursue their career at ITMO University. As part of the program, students study the basics of teaching and explore existing educational programs to assist current lecturers in the classroom. Why should students join the project? And what new features are we likely to see this year? Let’s find out.

  22.08.2022

• ITMO.Expert: Special Professional Development Program for Educators

  ITMO.Expert launched in 2018 as an innovative professional development program for the university’s lecturers. In essence, it’s an open platform, where educators can exchange their experiences, share the best practices, discuss topical issues, and support each other. Read on to learn more about the project and its prospects.

  07.07.2022

• ITMO Student Uses Science to Promote Healthy Living

  From this year on, ITMO students can create their own optional courses under the guidance of experienced lecturers, allowing them to gain their first teaching experience and others – to learn from their peers and ask questions they hesitate to ask older professors. One of the project’s participants is Anna Pozhar, a Master’s student at ITMO’s Faculty of Biotechnologies, who authored a healthy eating course that debunks popular myths about food and teaches students how to build a varied and well-balanced diet. Learn what Anna has to say about such courses and how she made hers fun and interesting in this article.

  02.06.2022