On 9 of December at the Faculty of Infocommunication Technologies, a meeting dedicated to the implementation of joint educational master’s program «Software in infocommunications (Master of Information and Communication Technologies)», developed at the Department of Software Systems in conjunction with the Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT), Finland. The main directions of the program include: methods of modeling and optimization of ICS, distributed information processing systems, design and creation of modern software and systems, modeling of intelligent systems, modern technologies and programming languages​​, models and methods of cloud computing.

The meeting was attended by Peck Jäppinen, the director of a joint educational program from the LUT, Katya Lahikaynen, the representative of the LUT in St. Petersburg and Susanna Koponen, the coordinator. From the NRU ITMO the meeting was attended by S.E. Khoruzhnikov, the dean of the Faculty of ICT and program manager, T.V. Zudilova, the head of the department of software systems, A.S. Klimova, the head of the department of international projects in the field of education, T.E. Voytyuk, the associate professor of the department of software systems.  A number of issues related to registration of students to study in the LUT, possible topics of master's theses and procedures of defence were discussed during the meeting. In conclusion, the parties discussed the possibility of further education and scientific cooperation.