Ekaterinburg’s Ural Federal University (UrFU) has announced it is developing a new RFID-based technology to safeguard and take stock of library books. Eighteen months from now, the system is expected to be in operation at the library of Lyceum #130 in Yekaterinburg, a long-standing UrFU partner. The non-contact radiofrequency scanning system will reportedly enable librarians …
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A group of forty Russian scientists has received a week of on-the-job training in the commercialization of hi tech projects at Israel’s Ariel University, the innovation news portal Venture Business News reported last week. The university, which is located in the Israeli settlement of Ariel in the West Bank, was upgraded just two months ago …
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As the Moscow startup ecosystem has grown ever more fertile and dynamic, the Skolkovo School of Management has launched Startup Academy, a two-month part-time program combining practical entrepreneurial education with an international acceleration program. Startup Academy is intended for entrepreneurs or corporate managers who feel they need more knowledge to launch or support their companies. …
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iCarnegie, the technology arm of Carnegie Mellon University, announced plans to open an IT training center in what is now developing as Innopolis, an ‘innovation city’ outside of Kazan, the capital of Tatarstan, an autonomous republic of the Russian Federation. The international educational and training facility will reportedly have the capacity to train as many …
Runa Capital, a Moscow-based international venture fund, has invested $5 million in the educational startup at an undisclosed valuation. Dnevnik.ru was established in 2007 as a free, nationwide school network. The site currently serves 21,000 Russian and Ukrainian schools, attracting over 4 million pupils, parents, teachers, and school administrators – up 1 million in the …
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On August 6th, the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skolkovo Tech), and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) kicked off a four-week intensive workshop called the SkTech/MIT Innovation Workshop 2012. The workshop is teaching participants how to bridge the gap between scientific and technological prowess and creating innovative solutions with broad impact. During the first …
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Moscow – Cisco has announced the launch of a Southern IT District project, part of a three-year program aimed at developing and modernizing IT education in Russia. The project is focused on promoting IT education in the Southern and North Caucasus Federal Districts (the last has the highest level of unemployment in Russia). Today 35 Cisco …
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Fast Lane Ventures, the Moscow-based serial Internet startup developer, yesterday announced a radical move to address its growing HR needs: the opening of Fast Lane Academia, a regional office in Ivanovo – a city 250 kilometers northeast of Moscow – which will hire and train young specialists to support its portfolio companies. Fifty Ivanovo graduates …
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The Russian State University for the Humanities (RSUH) and the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) have each announced the opening of a program in computational linguistics. The two programs were developed in close cooperation with ABBYY and IBM, according to ABBYY, a leading Russia-based international supplier of linguistic and translation software and services …
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The Bauman university, a leading Russian technical university, and IBM have opened “Smarter City,” a scientific and educational center based on the latest approaches to urban infrastructure management. The center will conduct R&D in the fields of image, audio and video recognition, cloud calculations and analytical software, in particular
Dnevnik.ru, Russia’s first social educational network, was honored last week as one of the of the best e-learning and educational websites at the World Summit Award 2011. A free, nationwide school network, Dnevnik.ru was established in 2007. The site currently serves 16,000 schools and over 3 million pupils, parents, teachers, and school administrators.
Just days after Texdrive, Russia’s first international startup accelerator, opened in Moscow, the St. Petersburg National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics (ITMO) announced in late October the creation of its own startup accelerator in partnership with US venture fund RSV Venture Partners. Operations will start early in 2012 at the university-hosted startup …
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