ITMO.Impact
Strategic Project #1
AIMS
➔ To train specialists, as individuals and in teams, capable of quickly advancing from research to entrepreneurship and ensuring their products’ impact on the society and economy;
➔ Speed of development and adoption of innovations;
➔ Openness of all processes so as to gain the trust of individuals, the public, and the industry.
OBJECTIVES OF THE PROJECT
- To establish joint labs with the top names on the market in well-honed formats
- To establish customer relations courses for administrative staff at partner companies, dispatch scientific ambassadors to partners, and form developer advocate teams within the university
- To launch deep-tech startups of two types: ones focused on the further development of ITMO’s system of practice-oriented student R&D as well as ones led by key professors of high prominence
- To establish an IP pool under the ITMO PL open license. To create commercialization models for the university and inventors
- To develop an ecosystem of urban services in collaboration with the Committee on Informatization and Communication
- To create attraction points for citizens and introduce ITMO-affiliated venues at key leisure and cultural spaces of the city
- To implement citizen science projects
- To develop and promote open-source software and digital services
- To launch projects that provide open access to results of intellectual activity, including the hardware aspects
- To foster a shared digital space for open science with partners: open-access databases, particularly in the fields of autonomous vehicles, sensor data processing, and inorganic materials design
- To establish testing sites and conduct tech validation (including ethical validation) projects with community involvement as well as stress tests of new technologies designed by the university or by third parties
- To actively participate in the formation of a national system of standardization and certification
- To provide infrastructure and testing sites for systematic development and propagation of services and solutions via placement of joint labs and startups at ITMO Highpark starting in 2025
- To give students of other universities the opportunity to join ITMO University’s minor programs
- To organize competitions for school and university students as well as public-oriented educational events. To further develop existing (CodeForces) and new (RoboForces) open platforms for online competitions and hackathons
- To develop the ITMO.Media program for the production of high-quality content for external target audiences
- To replicate ITMO’s programs for support and development of academic staff at other Russian universities
- To develop and manage an ethical hacking community
- To introduce a system of continuous professional development via the ITMO Avatar system
- To involve graduates in teaching professional training courses, mentorship, and startup development consulting
DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS
Technology transfer
- Сreation of joint labs with key market players in tried-and-tested formats;
- Сreation of deep-tech startups.
Home of ITMO University
- Digitalization of various aspects of city management;
- Development of services for the city and its citizens;
- Adoption of convenient methods for interaction with citizens and implementation of citizen science projects.
Open science. ITMO.Validation
- Communication of ITMO’s findings to other Russian universities and organizations;
- Quick adoption of digital services using the ITMO model.
Open education
- The university’s educational system is made available to a wide spectrum of students from other universities, the number of students in CPD programs is increased;
- Additional opportunities for establishing contacts and choosing educational paths;
- Organization of competitions and educational events for school students and university students together with the university’s partners.
Alumni.Impact
- Introduction of a free multi-tiered program of continuous professional development for graduates;
- Constant monitoring of the successes of graduates’ companies, which are especially numerous in the digital entrepreneurship sector.
RESULTS
- A 30% increase in revenue from contract-based R&D.
- Development and approval by the Government of St. Petersburg of a plan for the development of urban digital social services by 2030.
- Adoption of at least 30 digital services based on the ITMO model by partners.
- Launch of three new certification laboratories.
- Introduction of the RoboForces platform and organization of the international ethical hacking competition CyBRICS.
- Annual addition of two to three projects with a long-term support policy on GitHub.
- Threefold increase in the number of CPD program graduates.
- Start of the second stage of construction of ITMO Highpark, encompassing new academic (for 3,600 students) and research buildings.
- The ITMO Highpark Techno-Valley and Business Park begin operation, providing 12,000 new jobs and housing 40 new laboratories, including joint ones.
- Every year, 100% of the university’s market-ready products and at least 10 third-party products are checked for compliance with standards of data and functional safety (ITMO.Approved).
- An IP pool, openly accessible by ITMO partners, has been formed and is updated once every 6 months.
- A 150% increase in revenue from contract-based R&D;
- A 60-time increase in IP usage revenue;
- No less than 10 analytical industry studies every year;
- A five-fold increase in the number of graduates from CPD programs, including online programs; programs are updated every calendar quarter; 90% of CPD program graduates find employment in the most dynamic (technologically advanced) market sectors;
- 300,000 new active members of the alumni community; graduates actively participating in the CPD program make up 25% of all graduates of full-time educational programs; ITMO graduates make up 70% of all teaching staff of IT-focused professional training courses and 40% of teaching staff on courses dealing with natural and exact sciences.
COORDINATOR OF THE PROJECT
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