Institute of International Development and Partnership

Head
Daria Kozlova

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Administration
Education
Research

Administration

As the university’s center of international activities since 2014, the Institute of International Development and Partnership aims to promote internationalization in all activities, from education and research to extracurriculars.

One of the institute’s goals is to create an English-friendly atmosphere at the university, as well as to grow ITMO’s network of international collaborations and manage the university’s internal processes so that its international activities run efficiently and grow.

We’re proud to be a part of a rapidly-developing university and hope that our partners, students, lecturers, and colleagues will appreciate our efforts.

Education

The Institute of International Development and Partnership is a place where trailblazing interdisciplinary programs are born; it’s a hub generating and advancing collaborations between ITMO University’s schools. It offers cutting-edge educational programs that take into account the world’s best educational practices and meet the latest educational standards, training highly qualified specialists capable of solving topical interdisciplinary tasks for propelling science and society forward.

These include:

The Institute of International Development and Partnership also implements a set of core educational modules, mandatory for every ITMO University student. These courses help build the skills necessary for any successful professional in the modern high-tech world.

These courses include:

Foreign Languages (for Bachelor’s and Master’s students), helping students achieve fluency in a number of languages – including English, German, Swedish, and Russian (for international students) – to prepare them for positions at global companies;
Thinking (for Bachelor’s and Master’s students), which is aimed at developing the skills of critical, analytical, and system thinking in students;
Creative Technologies (for Master’s students), which offers a set of practical exercises to boost flexible thinking, as well as develop the ability to quickly solve unconventional tasks and anticipate various scenarios of project development;
Soft Skills (for Bachelor’s and Master’s students), including a set of courses designed to help students develop their non-technical skills, also known as soft skills, for their personal and professional growth.

Classes are held in a wide range of different formats – from lectures and seminars to group work in online project rooms – to ensure the best learning outcome for each specific course.

Research

The Institute of International Development and Partnership is also actively engaged in high-level research in cutting-edge fields.

This is done on the basis of its various units:

International Digital Humanities Center

The International Digital Humanities Center (DH Center) conducts research at the intersection of computer sciences and humanities, including:

corpus linguistics (semantic, stylometric, and frequency analysis);
digital technologies for preserving cultural heritage;
machine learning algorithms and methods for working with big data in humanities;
data visualization.

The сenter’s highly-topical research finds expression in a number of interdisciplinary projects, such as:

– St. Retrospect culture map

This project is aimed at the creation of an interactive interface, which is based on an open-source software and contains historical and cultural metadata on St. Petersburg’s key toponyms. It combines analysis, visualization of big data in the field of humanities, and corpus linguistics.

– An app for gamifying the process of learning St. Petersburg’s history

This project aims to develop an interactive,two-language online environment with gamification elements containing historical and cultural metadata on St. Petersburg's landmarks. The platform will incorporate an extensive database on the city’s historical monuments and cultural institutions within a convenient mobile app interface, which will allow users to explore themed walking routes, take part in quests, collect achievements and share them.

– Analysis of the phenomenon of toxicity in new Russian media and its integration in the culturological paradigm

The project is dedicated to solving the problem of identifying toxic Russian statements in the digital media space with the aim of their categorization through the use of machine learning algorithms and subsequent interpretation of the phenomenon of toxicity through a culturological lens.

Thinking

The center’s research activities are related to developments in the field of the theory of consciousness, modern social philosophy, philosophy of science, science ethics, and modern technologies, including artificial intelligence. The main focus is on contemporary problems experienced by people in their everyday life.

The center’s areas of expertise include:

– animal, human, and machine intelligence;

– trans-, post-, and inhumanistic approach to determining the place of humans in modernity;

– contemporary political theory;

– humanist feminism and cyberfeminism;

– critical analysis of the economic foundations of modernity;

– modern materialism;

– ethics in science and technology;

– philosophy of body;

– modern philosophy of mind;

– philosophy of cinema.

Art & Science Center

Merging the scientific and the artistic, the Art & Science Center conducts research at the intersection of various cutting-edge fields, which include:

– critical posthumanism;

– philosophy of technology;

– ethics of science and technology;

– bioethics;

– animal studies;

– plant studies;

– introduction of AI technologies into art practices;

– bioart;

– robotic art;

– AR and VR in arts and culture;

– curatorship of science art projects;

– archeology of media;