Education & HR

Russia joins forces with Ethereum Foundation to deploy Blockchain technologies in state administrations

December 23, 2018

This past Tuesday VEB, a major state-owned Russian development bank, signed a partnership agreement with the Ethereum Foundation to develop and implement Blockchain-based government applications. The Foundation’s founder Vitalik Buterin and VEB President Sergey Gorokov Chairman both took part in the signing ceremony, which was held during a Blockchain conference in Kazan, the capital of the innovation-friendly …

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Skoltech partners with UK and US firms to launch eSports academy

July 29, 2017

Competitive video gaming (known as “eSports,” or “computer sports” in Russian) has gained significant traction in Russia over the past few years, with billionaire Alisher Usmanov announcing a $100 million investment in the industry and the government fully recognizing this sports discipline. A new initiative came earlier this month from Skoltech, a private graduate research university …

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Government backs tech entrepreneurship at universities

June 7, 2017

By September 1, 2017, the Russian Ministry of Education and Science and a pool of experts promise to develop a roadmap for support of technology entrepreneurship in Russian universities, Firrma.ru reported, citing a verbal mandate government officials received from Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. At Phase 1 of the pilot program, five universities will be involved: …

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Survey: Salaries in the mobile industry are well above market average

June 2, 2017

Mobile marketing agency Zorka.Mobi has just released the results of a research about salary levels in the Russian, Belarusian and Ukrainian mobile industries. More than 400 people participated in the survey — from designers to engineers and developers, to media buyers, to top managers and other professionals. Here are the key findings: The average salary …

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Siberian university, state fund and private business team up in joint VC fund

April 28, 2017

RVC, Russia’s national fund of funds for innovation, the Tomsk State University (TSU) in Siberia and DI-Group, a private Russian management company for VC funds, are expected to ink an agreement in May to set up a joint venture fund, Interfax-Siberia reported, citing TSU Rector Eduard Galazhinsky. “The university must become a full-fledged player in a …

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Why is Russia so good at encouraging women into tech?

April 21, 2017

According to UNESCO, 29% of women worldwide are in science research, compared with 41% in Russia. In the UK, about 4% of inventors are women, whereas the figure is 15% in Russia. Russian girls view science, technology, engineering and mathematics (Stem) far more positively, with their interest starting earlier and lasting longer, says Julian Lambertin, …

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The Russian edtech market: A new research by top market players with EWDN support

January 7, 2019

East-West Digital News has supported leading Russian and international organizations to offer the first-ever study about the embryonic but promising market of education technologies in Russia. The research aims to analyze the Russian edtech market in its various dimensions, highlight its trends, key players, business models as well as the related investment activity and legal environment. Special focus …

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Russian entrepreneur success story: Job Today gets $35 million in media-for-equity from major media investors

March 14, 2017

Three media investors — Astremedia (Spain), German Media Pool VC and RTL Germany — have inked a media-for-equity deal worth $35 million with Job Today, reports TechCrunch. Launched in 2015 by two Russian entrepreneurs, Eugene Mizin and Polina Montano, Job Today has developed a job finder app which currently operates in four cities of Spain and the UK. The startup, which claims to …

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ITMO students are the best coders in the world, says new ranking

December 27, 2016

Which colleges have the best coders in the world? This simple question is not addressed by academic rankings. The “Top Computer Science Programs ranking of U.S. News & World Report, for example, takes into account such criteria as number of research papers produced, global research reputation, and number of conferences — but practical coding skills are not even …

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Russian students create programming language to help their ‘streetwise’ peers graduate

December 13, 2016

On December 5, a group of students at Saint Petersburg’s College of Information Technologies launched a parody programming language designed for “streetwise” computer science students struggling with traditional languages like JavaScript and C++. As reported by the news website TJournal, Semyon Gozman, Mikhail Belozerskiy, and Georgiy Mkhitaryan came up with“YoptaScript,” which appropriates Russian slang to make it easier for street-educated students to understand, …

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UK edtech startup receives Russian money to “bring VR and AR to chemistry education”

February 26, 2019

UK-based education service MEL Science announced today the completion of its Series A funding round with Sistema VC injecting $2.5 million in the company. MEL Science claims that its subscription service, which features nearly 40 interactive chemistry sets, is “changing science education” by “incorporating for the first time the virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) into a single …

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