The IT Center focuses on applied research and development in IT and robotics; the Photonics and Quantum Technologies Center – on optical studies; and the Life and Health Sciences Center – on microbiology, biochemistry, and biotechnology. Particular attention will be paid to the laboratories on the third floor of the Life and Health Sciences Center, which will house ISO-5 cleanrooms for microbiological research.
The centers are designed to accommodate 1,500 people, including 900 students, 540 lecturers and employees, and 60 technical staff.
Earlier, construction was approved for two dormitory buildings and the first construction stage of ITMO University’s second campus based at ITMO Highpark.
ITMO Highpark is a future world-class research and educational center under the aegis of ITMO University. The complex will be home to the university’s second campus, along with dormitories and research centers. The campus will primarily focus on Master’s and PhD programs, with an emphasis on practice-oriented research and its commercialization. ITMO University will retain its campuses in the downtown, where Bachelor's and Master's students will continue to pursue fundamental research-oriented programs.
The new campus will appear in the Pushkinsky District, alongside the future Yuzhny satellite city, which is a strategic project of the city of St. Petersburg. Approximately 10 million square meters of real estate – residential, commercial, and administrative – will be constructed within the new city. ITMO Highpark will take up an area of 86 ha alongside the southwestern side of Kievskoye Shosse between the interchange to Kondakopshino and the border of the Leningrad Oblast. The complex is expected to create over 12,000 new jobs.
