OPEN CALL FOR PROJECTS FOCUSED ON NEW TECHNOLOGIES CORRESPONDING TO THE DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY GOALS

CATEGORY DESCRIPTION

This open call is intended to find and support projects in a variety of fields – from education and research to conscious consumption and healthy lifestyle – that will introduce and implement new technologies aligned with the goals of the Development Strategy’s strategic projects and policies. The proposed projects must result in systematic changes and produce qualitatively new output. Let’s change our university and the world for the better together!

RESULTS AND EFFECTS YOUR PROJECT SHOULD PRODUCE FOR THE UNIVERSITY

collaborative projects with the Government of St. Petersburg, involvement in the city’s agenda, and development of urban services;
technologies and mechanisms for the development of CPD programs, micromodules, microdegrees, etc. for ITMO students and representatives of other universities and organizations – with the end goal of a sizeable increase in the number of CPD program graduates and enhancement of ITMO University’s reputation as an active player on the Russian supplementary education market;
technologies for personalized education: educational graphs, learning analytics, systems for decomposition into modules, pedagogical design, and tracking and affirmation of learning results and student experience in and beyond ITMO, implementation of the life-long learning (LLL) model;
technologies for the ITMO quality standard: new mechanisms for quality assessment and improvement of educational modules, disciplines, and programs; models for mutual quality assessment and broadcasting of developed practices;

technologies for the development of entrepreneurial thinking among students/staff, including digital entrepreneurship; technologies for the launch of deep-tech projects and startups with a high level of technological expertise in one of ITMO’s fields of focus;
technologies for educational export and new models for scouting and training of international Master’s and PhD students;
technologies for proactive formation of digital competencies among students;
technologies and mechanisms aimed at increasing the level of students and staff’s well-being, development of social connections, healthy lifestyle practices, conscious consumption, as well as reduction in emotional overload and professional burnout;
technologies for the development of ITMO’s phygital campus: an organic fusion of physical and virtual realities for the new generation.