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• Adapting To Russia: International Students Share Their Experience

  Education, communication, traditions, living conditions, food and weather - all of those change dramatically for international students who come to study in Russia. To adapt to the new environment, they can rely on specialists from the International Students Learning and Support Center; yet, having the right attitude is important as well, believe the exchange students from Europe and Brazil who came to ITMO for the IT and Business Innovations in Russia course. In an interview with our newsportal, they shared their experience of studying at ITMO University.

  13.04.2017

• The New Alumni Community for Over 40 Thousand Graduates

  How to find your ex-classmates years after graduation? Is it possible to receive full information on the activities and events of your alma mater? For these purposes one needs a communicative platform, believe stakeholders of the project called Association for Alumni. Alexander Golovaty, head of the Communicative Center for Students and Alumni, shared about the new system for those who want to keep in contact with other alumni and participate in university’s activities regardless of how long it’s been since their graduation.

  15.03.2017

• Master’s Student Talks about Her IT Internship in Berlin

  Kamilla Murzanova, student of the Department of Engineering and Computer Graphics, had a three-month internship in Berlin’s INNOTECH Holztechnologien GmbH. She talked about her project, lifehacks for living abroad and shared some curious stories.

  14.03.2017

• Co-creation Concept: How to Manage Creativity?

  Alexey Abolmasov, business coach and author of various business games, will tell about how to use creative approach, develop teamwork skills and save good relationships with partners at the "Co-creation" course, which will start at ITMO on March 15.

  28.02.2017

• Experience Is a Must: American Experts on Business-University Cooperation

  A university's profile depends not on rankings, but on how its graduates succeed, believe Casey Sax, vice chancellor of West Virginia's Department of Vocational and Technical Education, and Inta Morris, head of the International Office of the Department of Higher Education of Colorado (USA). The experts came to ITMO University to find more about its entrepreneurial infrastructure. The American colleagues are sure that in both Russia and the USA, education shares the same goal: to train its graduates 100% ready for future work. In an interview to ITMO.NEWS, they've shared about why it is important to focus on demands of particular enterprises, and how the graduates' quality affects the economics of the whole region.

  21.02.2017

• A Semester in China: ITMO Student Shared his Impressions

  Maksim Ivanov, Master’s student of the Faculty of Technological Management and Innovations, spent the last semester at the Beijing Institute of Technology. He talked about his extraordinary experience in such an unusual country, its culture and people and said why he’d like to connect himself with China. A list of prejudices and lifehacks is attached!

  17.02.2017

• International Experts on Business Incubators and Accelerators in Russia

  What are startup accelerators and business incubators about? Growing a new generation of entrepreneurs? Speeding up startup development? It hasn't been long since they've appeared in Russia, but now a Russian university can't call itself progressive if it has no entrepreneurial environment. Yet, in pursuit of modern tendencies, one must not forget the very point of creating business incubators. Tom Strodtback, Director of European and Asian Partnerships at Global Accelerator Network, and Lynn Robertson, Liverpool Incubator Manager at Santander UK Corporate & Commercial, shared about how incubators help novice entrepreneurs, who invest in startups and their impressions of the entrepreneurial environment in Russia. Tom Strodtback and Lynn Robertson came to Russia to speak at a seminar for heads of business incubators and technoparks, which was hosted by ITMO University on February 6−7.

  10.02.2017

• Visualization and Computation: ITMO to Collaborate with University of Oslo

  ITMO’s eScience Research Institute and University of Oslo have signed a memorandum of understanding. Andrei Karsakov, engineer of eScience Research Institute, and Anna Bilyatdinova, lecturer at the High Performance Computing Department, shared the details in an interview to ITMO.NEWS.

  06.02.2017

• Master’s Student on Cryptocurrencies and How to Organize an IT Business

  Arseniy Seroka, founder of the company Serokell, shared life hacks for those who plan to launch a hi-tech business. The student talked about his lifework and explained why Haskell is better that Java and C++.

  24.01.2017

• Surviving Yemen, Surviving ITMO

  When we met Dheya Al-Saeedi, we were struck by his positivity, ambition and hope for the future, especially as he began to reveal his history. Still young, he has experienced what many hope not to experience. For those of you who don’t know where Yemen is, it’s on the southwestern tip of the Arabian Peninsula, wedged between Saudi Arabia and Oman. It also has its fair share of issues. The south wants to separate from the north and the country is in a constant state of war. It’s also the poorest country in the Arabian Peninsula.

  12.12.2016