In your 1st year as an international student? Your experience matters! 🩵

We’d like to make the admissions process easier and more convenient for applicants, and your help is crucial!

The Internal Research and Monitoring Center and Internationalization Office invite you to take a short interview with an AI moderator. It will only take 20 minutes of your time. The format is flexible: you can take it any time, in any language, and questions can be answered either in text or voice.

In the interview, we’ll discuss why you chose Russia and ITMO in particular, your experience with the admissions process, and the challenges of being a student.

All the participants will receive useful guidelines and a gift of their choice:

⚫️a certificate to ITMO.Store
⚫️publication of your interview on ITMO.NEWS

📅 Until December 14
🔗 Join the interview via the link: https://surli.cc/wvkkzk
📥 If you have any questions, reach out to @anastassin_25

Where do you find the funds for all the New Year presents? 🎄

Secure one of the job opportunities from this new digest by ITMO Career Center!

Leading Search Engine Optimization Specialist – several positions with different language requirements
Farsi
Arabic
Portuguese
French
Yandex Crowd

Junior International Cooperation Engineer (Chinese + English)
RES ENGINEERING

B2B IT Sales Manager (French)
iSpring

Telegram Channel Ambassador (English)
IT World

Operations Department Specialist (English)
Kontakt

Customer Support Specialist (English)
Call Solutions

Support Specialist (Turkish)
Nevasoft

Foreign Economic Activities Specialist (Chinese)
Advanced Solutions Spb

New Year is just around the corner 🌲

Embrace the spirit of magic and festivities with our video advent calendar!

Starting today, we’ll be sharing greetings from staff members of the International Office and our ITMO friends! We hope their kind words will warm you up no matter the deadlines, exams, or other end-of the-year rushes 💘

First, we have warm wishes from ITMO’s International Students Learning and Support Center by Julia Chervo!

15 days left until the New Year and we’re opening the second window of our festive video advent calendar! 📆

Today we have a special message from Aleksandra Zavalina from ITMO’s International Admissions Office!

Join a workshop by IT Space community 🚀

Early in your PhD and already overwhelmed? Are you trying to conduct research or publish your first paper? This workshop, led by someone who has survived the process and successfully defended her PhD, is here to turn stress into strategy.

🧑‍🎓 Topics covered:

⚫️ Essential tools for research
⚫️ How to plan your research
⚫️ Lit reviews: what to do (and what not to do)
⚫️ Why rejections and major revisions happen and how to handle them

Perfect for junior PhD and Master’s students considering a PhD!

🎙 Speaker: Dong Huiyao, PhD in Cybersecurity, FSIT ITMO part-time lecturer, research assistant

🗓 December 21, 12 PM — 1:30 PM
📍 Online (Zoom link will be sent after sign-up)
🇬🇧 Language: English
🔗 Registration is required

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We’re one day closer to the winter holidays! ☕

To wish you all the best, we have Ekaterina Gurzheeva from ITMO’s Foundation Program, where many international students begin their path at ITMO!

Driven by curiosity 🇨🇳

Before diving into his biotechnology studies at ITMO, Xie is already exploring a new language, a new culture, and the science behind life itself. Thoughtful and passionate, he’s preparing for his Master’s by asking big questions about how humans are built. As he puts it:

Since childhood, I dreamed of being a doctor, helping people and understanding how the human body works. (…) It amazes me that every person, no matter how different, is built from the same fundamental units of life. (…) That sense of mystery and beauty is what drew me to biotechnology.

Learn about Xie Peiru’s journey, inspirations, and first steps at ITMO here ⬅️

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