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From October 28 to 31, the international youth project laboratory BRICS Project Lab – Minsk was held in Minsk. It was organized by the Representative Office of Rossotrudnichestvo in the Republic of Belarus jointly with the NSO MGIMO and the Belarusian State University with the support of the A.M. Gorchakov Public Diplomacy Fund.

The laboratory brought together undergraduate and graduate students, and young scientists from Russia, Belarus, and the BRICS countries to develop practical projects aimed at advancing international cooperation. From over a thousand applications, the organizers selected approximately one hundred participants. The competition's difficulty is comparable to that of applying for a scholarship to MGIMO.

Mikhail Krikunov, a master's student at the Faculty of Information Technology and an assistant at the Department of Informatics Systems at NSU, was one of the Russian representatives among the finalists.

"I submitted my application in September, went through an interview, and received confirmation of my participation in early October. The lab isn't just a forum, but a platform where young researchers work on real projects at the request of government and international organizations," says Mikhail.

He and his teammates participated in the track "Current State of the Pharmaceutical, Medical Devices, and IT Markets in the Republic of Belarus," which was developed in partnership with the Trade Mission of the Russian Federation in Belarus. The work began online in October: the team analyzed the market, studied product certification and registration processes, and systematized data on preferences and growth opportunities in the pharmaceutical and IT sectors.

"The in-person stage in Minsk was a logical continuation of the project. We participated in consultations with experts, met with representatives of the Trade Mission and lawyers to clarify details and finalize the study. Ultimately, we prepared over a hundred pages of analytical materials, which we submitted to Yuri Vasilyevich Zolotarev, the Russian Trade Representative in Belarus. He highly praised our work and noted that the results would be forwarded to the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade," Mikhail shares.

According to the participant, the eventful program included lectures, meetings, discussion platforms, and a cultural component: students visited the Russian Embassy in Belarus, the Court of the Eurasian Economic Union, the Minsk City Technopark, and saw the city's landmarks.

"I'm happy to have seen the heroic city of Minsk, to have contributed to strengthening trade relations between Russia and Belarus, to have met a huge number of smart and kind people, professionals in their fields, ready to move forward no matter what, and to have made friends in my teammates. I hope this project lab will become a starting point for our team's future work on other projects," Mikhail concludes.

In the near future, the team plans to continue the research in the form of a scientific paper and publish its results.

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Novosibirsk, November 10, 2025: Analytical Center "Expert" published the results of the eighth wave of the study of universities leading in training technology entrepreneurs. Novosibirsk State University was the only university from the region to make it into the top ten. Leading Moscow universities also made the top ten: HSE, MIPT, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Bauman Moscow State Technical University, and RANEPA.

The ranking is based on a database of approximately 3,000 startups and 3,500 of their founders. The 2025 ranking assessed universities using a scoring scale that took into account graduates' performance in creating both local and international startups. In 2025, the database of local startups (headquartered in Russia) founded since 2015 reached 859 companies. These projects were founded by 1,103 entrepreneurs representing 280 Russian universities. The database of international startups was compiled using Crunchbase and includes 2,078 companies and 2,357 entrepreneurs.

"NSU's development strategy envisages a transition to a scientific and technological university model by 2036, where technology will be the core business alongside education and research. With this in mind, we are paying special attention to developing student technological entrepreneurship. We are building an effective support ecosystem at the university—from the inception of an idea to its development into a mature business. NSU has a Startup Studio, the .catalyst acceleration program, a campus course on technological entrepreneurship, and a practice of defending final theses in a startup-as-a-diploma format. This year, we were among the winners of a federal competition for the development of university startup studios, which will expand our capabilities in this area," commented NSU Rector and RAS Academician Mikhail Fedoruk.

The infrastructure created at NSU to foster technological entrepreneurship has its own unique characteristics. The university is located in Akademgorodok, a district of the city near more than 30 institutes, as well as one of the country's leading technology parks, home to high-tech companies. NSU is primarily focused on training researchers, so most student startups are based on scientific research, and students have the opportunity to develop these research projects into products. The unique ecosystem of the Novosibirsk Scientific Center allows for a more rapid transition from concept to market launch.

"This environment gives students a real opportunity to launch their own technology products and services while still studying, gain practical experience in development, interacting with clients, and become familiar with the fundamentals of business management—from accounting to legal aspects. Over the past three and a half years, more than 1,130 people, including students not only from NSU but also from other Novosibirsk universities, have completed training in our .catalyst acceleration program. 67 residents of the NSU Startup Studio won the Student Startup competition and received grants of 1 million rubles each to implement their business projects. Furthermore, more than 30 teams have become residents of the Akadempark business incubator," said Alexey Starostin, Director of the NSU Center for Entrepreneurial Initiatives.

Thus, having gained experience developing their own project while still studying, students become specialists who not only possess basic professional knowledge but also understand the technology stack, legal issues, team selection and management, and development promotion. Such creators are now in demand in any field.

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"Labyrinth"—a laboratory for intensive intellectual development—is the name of the 2025 on-site mathematical immersion program for first- to fourth-year students in research groups. Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of Novosibirsk State University— a regular event of the Sobolev Institute of Mathematics of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences with the support of the International Mathematical Center. The immersion took place in late October at the O. Koshevoy health and educational camp. Nearly two dozen students passionate about mathematics solved problems, participated in creative competitions and a conference, watched films, and attended lectures.

Only four problems were assigned over the two days, equal to the number of teams. But, as usual, most of them had no clear answer, requiring careful thought to come up with an engaging solution, which each team presented at the final conference. The problem conditions can be considered a framework. Teams can refine them, change them, narrow or expand them to present a general, attractive solution. For example, the question, "Into how many squares can a 7 by 5 rectangle be divided?" quickly evolved into a search for the minimum number of squares, since everyone knows the multiplication table. The goal was to find some universal formula for dividing the squares. Many teams quickly arrived at Euclidean division with remainder, but no one came up with a hypothesis for the minimum number of squares.

The second problem required fitting the maximum number of fragments with four vertices into a graph. The most successful graph was one in which edges were drawn between all vertices, and then many more edges ("fuzzies") were added to each vertex. Lev Zhukov and Timofey Vasiliev drew attractive, "fluffy" graphs.

The third problem, at first glance, seemed simple enough. What strategy should you follow when erasing one fragment at a time in a chain so that after your move you don't end up with two segments with the same number of links, while your opponent does? A clear algorithm for a sure victory was not found. The question remained open.

"Do you know the solution to this problem?" the students asked.

"Of course not!" the organizers admitted frankly. They weren't being disingenuous. Solving problems with predetermined answers, like a test in school, is a bit boring for real researchers, whether they're in their first or fourth year. The students laughed, of course, but they were pleased to be on equal terms with doctors and candidates of science. Many of their eyes lit up: "These are real problems!"

Klim Bagryantsev offered a beautiful and colorful image (but not a solution) of a problem where one had to divide a rectangle into four pieces of a "triomino" game. This is a well-known type of problem involving filling a surface with identical fragments. The result is a fractal canvas of four colors, similar to a Sierpinski triangle, where small shapes compose similar larger ones.

Each team had its own name and mascot. The name "Outegral" clearly aspired to a new concept, the opposite of "integral." The "Nail Rinatovich" team was named after a classmate who was absent from the team and whom the students clearly missed greatly. The "Koala" team's full name was "Koala Eucalyptus," and the "Mathematini" team's mascot was a true artistic masterpiece, adorning the event until its departure.

"This year's immersion was a very emotional experience for me," said fourth-year student Daria Koroleva. "I'm so glad the first-year students managed to keep their cool and solve the problems. It was a lot of fun with them. I really enjoyed the problems. I was a little disappointed that I couldn't find a perfect solution, but that's not always possible, but solving them was a lot of fun. You get completely immersed in the research process, generating hypotheses, considering different examples, proving or finding counterexamples, communicating, and discussing ideas. Researching problems with other students is a unique experience."

In addition to math problems, there were night photography contests for the most geometric and the scariest shadow. Some scenarios required participants to perform complex choreography and even some acrobatic skills, while others required only a little mischief and ingenuity.

The country camp became a magnet not only for students and teachers—the first lecture, dedicated to mathematical billiards and Birkhoff's algebraic conjecture, was given by Andrei Mironov, Director of the Sobolev Institute of Mathematics, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

There are a huge number of very beautiful theorems concerning Birkhoff billiards, and many still unproven conjectures. For example, the question of the periodic trajectory of a billiard ball within any convex figure. In an acute triangle, it will be periodic, meaning the ball will repeatedly hit the same points. But within a circle, there can be various periodic trajectories of a billiard ball—from an equilateral triangle to a square, a five- or even a six-pointed star. Andrei Mironov gave students a brief history of scientific research into Birkhoff's conjecture and presented several solutions, authored byoneof which in 2019 was the lecturer himself, together with a colleague from Tel Aviv University, Professor Mikhail Bial.

Birkhoff's conjecture states that every integrable billiard table is an ellipse. An elliptical curve that touches all segments of the billiard ball's trajectory, bending around them, is called a caustic. This term came to mathematics from optics, where it described the geometry of reflection and refraction of light beams such that in certain places the light gathers into particularly bright spots, for example, on the surface of the sea or inside a faceted diamond. A question from the audience asked whether caustics can intersect. The speaker replied that no one had yet solved this mystery.

Andrei Mironov spoke about his acquaintance with Mikhail Byaly at a conference in Scotland, and the organizers of the mathematical immersion recalled that a team of schoolchildren from Scotland (including children of NSU graduates) once won their annual autumn math marathon. The bizarre and vibrant, caustic intersections of scientific trajectories demonstrate that mathematics is not self-sufficient and cannot develop in a hermetically sealed manner within a single country, city, or institute. Mathematics is one. People living on opposite sides of the globe simultaneously ponder the same problems and ask the same questions.

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Novosibirsk State University held its traditional Open Day on November 2, attracting a record-breaking number of participants for the fall event—over 2,000 schoolchildren and their parents. Prospective students learned about the program offerings, admission requirements, and the university atmosphere. The Open Day was held for the first time in the new classroom building, which opened on September 1, 2025.

In his opening address, NSU Rector Mikhail Fedoruk discussed the university's history, its development, and the areas of specialization that are currently in high demand. He specifically noted the growing interest among applicants in the natural sciences and engineering. This is evidenced by the results of the 2025 admissions campaign, where the top seven areas with the most significant growth in applications included "Informatics and Computer Engineering," "Mathematics and Mechanics," "Mathematics and Computer Science," "Applied Mathematics and Physics," "Physics," "General Medicine," and "Geology." The rector also highlighted the development of the university's infrastructure, the construction of a modern campus, and the opening of new buildings, which will expand NSU's educational and research capabilities.

During the Open Day, guests had the opportunity to visit thematic areas of NSU faculties and institutes, where students and faculty demonstrated in an interactive and live format what can be learned at NSU.

A guest of the event, tenth-grader Elizaveta Zh., shared her impressions:

"I really like this university. I'd like to enroll here, but I haven't decided on a major or exams yet. This is my first time here, and I'm impressed by the scale of the university—it's very large. I think there will be many opportunities for me if I get in. I've discovered a new area—the Faculty of Geology and Geophysics and the Department of Oil and Gas Fields."

At the program areas, representatives from NSU faculties and institutes provided detailed information on the admissions requirements for each specific program and answered applicants' questions.

Yulia Ilyushchenko, a representative of the Fundamental and Applied Linguistics department at the NSU Humanities Institute, noted:

We also have a threshold for admission to fee-paying programs—this year, you had to score more than 210 points to be admitted. There are several types of quotas for state-funded places. Please note that we only require specialized mathematics.

NSU hosts a variety of events to help schoolchildren prepare for university admission, ranging from Unified State Exam (USE) preparation courses to annual schools organized by faculties and institutes. Completion of these schools offers the opportunity to earn additional credits for university admission.

Natalia Simonova, Head of the Department of Theory and History of Journalism, discussed additional programs for high school students that can help increase their chances of successful admission to a journalism program:

For those interested in our program, we offer a "Young Journalist School" for students in grades 8–11, lasting from one to four years. It includes preparation for a creative competition specifically for 11th-graders—two classes every two weeks. At the school, students create stories, magazines, longreads, and other projects, exploring various forms of journalistic work. This format is suitable for career guidance and portfolio preparation, which can then be presented at the creative competition.

We are confident that NSU's Open Day will become the beginning of many schoolchildren's professional journeys, where the first step is choosing their field and where they want to study. NSU is open to talented and inquisitive people—those who are ready to seek, explore, and create the future today.

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During the last week of October, Novosibirsk State University hosted a series of events dedicated to student career advancement. For over seven years, the NSU Career Development Center has been organizing the traditional "Career Forum," but this year the format was significantly updated and given a new name—"Career Fest." This change was the result of analyzing attendance and the needs of both students and employers.

Victoria Maltseva, Partner Relations Manager at the NSU Career Development Center, explains that "Career Fest" isn't just a name change, but also a fundamentally new format. It includes open discussions and presentations, as well as game mechanics and practical activities implemented by employers and organizers to make communication and networking more lively and effective. It's important for students to interact with each other, gain skills, and actively work as a team.

Tatyana Ershova, a participant in the Beeline game-test and a master's student in Journalism at the NSU Humanities Institute, noted the practical value of the format:

"Today, we not only met colleagues who helped us navigate career situations, but also gained insight into our potential for many job openings. It was a unique experience to see employers' reactions to our requests and understand how to address issues within the company and in our own careers. Masterclasses like these truly open new horizons."

A key part of the program was a quiz day featuring career-related questions from the company "SHIFT." It tested participants' interview skills and their overall knowledge of the labor market. These team-based games develop communication skills—a key competency for any job seeker, the organizers emphasize.

Mikhail Savin, a student at the Faculty of Economics and a member of the winning team, admitted:

"The first round was the most challenging, but the team made it through. In the second, I learned a lot about student traditions, and in the third, how to build a successful career. It's a useful way to combine knowledge and gameplay."

According to Ekaterina Gonchar, a mentor at SHIFT, the main recommendation for students dreaming of a career in IT is to not stop at theory.

"IT is evolving so rapidly today that it's difficult to be successful without ongoing training and participation in conferences and internships. Practical experience is the main criterion for employers, not just a diploma."

Also, as part of the Career Fest, the ChemQuiz competition from Renewal was held for the first time, with over 50 students from the Faculty of Natural Sciences and the Institute of Medicine and Medical Technology at NSU taking part.

Svetlana Dovgal, Director of the NSU Career Development Center, emphasized that Career Fest combines individual and public events within a single week with the goal of significantly increasing student engagement. A new feature was the holding of the events in NSU's new building with spacious auditoriums, which was warmly welcomed by both participants and employers.

This year, students from the Humanities Institute actively helped organize the Career Fest. Grigory Feoktistov, Maxim Budko, Alina Motina, Alexandra Kuzmenko, students of the Faculty of Economics and the Faculty of Information Technology –Egor Vlasov And Lev Anisimov, as well as interns from the Career Development Center – Alexandra Mokina and Sofia Petukhova .

Students were involved in every stage of the organization: they developed the concept, conducted brainstorming sessions, were responsible for communications with companies, and even developed Career Agent branded merchandise. This is how a community is formed where young people acquire a crucial skill—confident interview skills, regardless of their field of study.

Svetlana Dovgal also emphasized that the Career Fest has become a true bridge between students and employers:

Companies see these games and sessions not only as a way to connect, but also as a chance to strengthen their brand, deepen connections with young people through interactivity, and engage them in internship programs.

The NSU Career Development Center intends to make "Career Fest" an annual event and continue to develop the format to meet the needs of students and businesses. Student volunteers are already showing enthusiasm and enthusiasm for new projects, and the Center's team is uniting to implement ambitious ideas.

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On October 19, the NSUtella team, consisting of Roman Boluts, Matvey Goncharov, and Sofia Lylova, representing the Faculty of Information Technology, took part in the finals of the RuCode International Championship and took 25th place in the A/B division, becoming the competition's prize winner.

RuCode is a major all-Russian IT festival on artificial intelligence and algorithmic programming, bringing together schoolchildren, students, and professionals interested in modern technology. It is organized by the country's leading universities, technology parks, public organizations, and IT companies, with the support of the Russian Ministry of Science and Higher Education.

The festival includes championships in competitive programming and artificial intelligence, educational intensives, career guidance events, master classes, and lectures. For many participants, RuCode offers an opportunity to test themselves against tough competition and gain practical experience solving challenging problems.

"I decided to participate because I knew RuCode was an interesting Olympiad. Last year, I participated as a school student," says Roman Boluts, a first-year undergraduate student at the Faculty of Information Technology at NSU.

The finals took place at NSU. The Olympiad began at 2:10 PM and lasted five hours. According to the competition rules, each team was assigned one computer, on which the participants took turns solving problems.

"The tasks varied in difficulty—from very simple ones, which almost everyone solved, to very complex ones, which only a few teams managed. This wasn't a training event, but a competition, so I didn't gain any new knowledge, but it was a good way to test my skills and preparation," Roman shares.

The results of the finals were published in championship tableFollowing their performance, the NSU team received a RuCode prize winner's diploma, cementing the university's reputation as one of the strongest participants in Russian programming competitions.

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From October 23 to 26, the IT holding T1 held a hackathon for young professionals and students at Novosibirsk State University as part of the "Impulse T1" conference. Over 300 participants from across Russia, from students to aspiring developers, took part in the competition.

The event continued the series of hackathons previously held in Nizhny Novgorod and Yekaterinburg and became one of the largest platforms for the exchange of experience between students and experts from leading IT companies. The total prize fund for the entire series was 3.8 million rubles, 800,000 of which were awarded in Novosibirsk.

Participants worked on two case studies. The first involved creating a system for generating personalized backgrounds using an ML module that would run locally on the user's device without transmitting data to external servers. The second case focused on automated Git activity analysis for development teams. Automated analysis enables the timely identification of problems in development processes and inefficient resource allocation within teams.

Teams from NSU won all three prize places in the first case.

The "Pirates of the Ob Sea" team (Maxim Yemelyanov and Ulyana Zaitseva, master's students from the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics, and Mark Skvortsov, Alexander Shovkoplyas, and Alina Vdovichenko, graduates of the Institute of Intelligent Robotics) took first place. The team received a prize of 180,000 rubles.

"I led the team solving the case 'Digital Dress Code: A Background That Makes You Stand Out.' The task was to develop a model that segments individuals from their backgrounds in a video stream. The ML module had to be robust to low light, light interference, and similar colors, and the personalization module had to generate customized backgrounds based on templates and employee data, while adhering to contrast and privacy rules," explains Maxim Yemelyanov.

The team began their work by analyzing existing solutions and identifying factors affecting segmentation quality. They then studied open-source models, selected suitable options, improved them, and integrated them into the system. At the same time, they developed interactive elements over the video stream to clearly demonstrate the algorithm's operation.

"We didn't just aim to complete the task, but to make the solution as stable and visually understandable as possible. It was important that the model looked 'live' and responded to the user in real time. The challenge was that everything had to work locally, without cloud services, so optimization took a lot of effort," notes Maxim.

Alexander Shovkoplyas, who was part of the winning team, also shares his impressions:

"The main challenge for us was working with technologies we'd never used before—for example, running neural networks via JavaScript directly in the browser. We managed to not only create a truly high-quality solution but also convey to the hackathon experts the potential uses for it. We implemented features in the app that are useful for companies: their image is built on small details—a suitable background for video calls in line with their corporate colors, a convenient way to display employees' names and job titles on the background. This is precisely what we accomplished and expertly presented at the hackathon."

Second place in the same case was taken by the VI_KA team (Ivan Kadilenko, Maxim Unzhakov, Egor Palkin), and third place was taken by the UML team (Stavr Mariskin, Fedor Chumakin, Daniil Kolesnik, Damir Shaikhov and Yuri Malyugin).

Thus, all the prize places in the first case were taken by NSU teams, confirming the high level of students' preparation and their competitiveness in the federal arena.

The Impulse T1 hackathon became not only a competition but also a platform for students to connect with IT industry experts. Participants note that such formats provide an opportunity to apply their knowledge in practice, receive feedback from professionals, and see how ideas are transformed into real solutions.

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