В Международной гимназии «Сколково» второй год подряд прошла педагогическая практика студентов MIT . Проект реализуется в рамках образовательной программы Global Teaching Labs Массачусетского технологического института (MIT) при поддержке Сколтеха...
How does a country produce new generations of engineers equipped with the skills that are in demand in the real world once they graduate from university? Nearly two decades ago, a group of engineering schools set about tackling the widening gap between engineering...
Despite the 9,000 kilometres between them, the Skolkovo innovation centre outside Moscow and Russia’s Far Eastern Federal University ( FEFU ) in Vladivostok have a lot in common. They were both created in 2010, when four of the Far East’s leading...
Gifted schoolchildren from the Urals cities of Perm and Yekaterinburg visited the Skolkovo innovation city on Friday to see some of the technologies being developed here and to learn about a new scholarship being launched for Russian students to study at the...
A joint scientific conference organised by the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology ( Skoltech ) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT ) kicked off at the Skolkovo innovation centre on Tuesday, marking the biggest joint event hosted by Skoltech...
A group of students from Eton College, the U.K.’s most famous school, visited the Skolkovo innovation centre on Wednesday, where they were inspired by a selection of Russian startups including an exo-skeleton, a microsatellite and a surgery simulator...
The annual Open University Skolkovo (OpUS) Summer Camp kicks off on July 3 with a focus on agro-technologies in the BRICS countries and, for the first time, a truly international flavour. Some of the students who took part in last year's Open University...
Edward Crawley, the charismatic U.S. professor who has headed the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) since its founding, on Friday officially handed over his duties as president to his Russian successor, Dr. Alexander Kuleshov. Edward...
In his silver and white acamedic robe, Skoltech president Ed Crawley rang the school bell on Monday to usher in the innovation university’s fourth academic year amid record intake figures and its most geographically diverse cohort yet. Skoltech...
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev extended his congratulations to Skoltech’s first graduates on Wednesday, ceremonially awarding the first diploma at Startup Village. Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, somewhere in the melee of graduates. Photo...
Improvements in this version of Startup Village: Record crowds, new setting, creative catering. Like the leading smartphone apps, Startup Village is constantly evolving. The third edition of Russia and Eastern Europe’s biggest startup event is no...
«Богатства ищут ради образования, образования – ради богатства» , - пишет работающий в Беркли русский историк Юрий Слезкин, характеризую современную эпоху. Его книга «Век Меркурия» написана не об образовании и даже не о богатствах...
Hundreds of Moscow students packed out a lecture theater this week to hear what most of them already believe: Pharma’s Cool. The lecture hall at Moscow’s Sechenov University of Medicine. Photo: sk.ru The three-week lecture series targeting...
ALMATY, Kazakhstan - The Kazakh stage of the Startup Tour concluded on Friday with several innovations winning a place at the Startup Village in June and, perhaps more significantly, the foundations put in place for of a new era of high-tech cooperation between...
A prominent US diplomat said Monday that Skolkovo’s partnership with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is more important now than ever. In opening remarks at the US-Russia Research Symposium in the Russian capital, Jeffrey Sexton, minister...