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  4. International Students Project Marathon

International Students Project Marathon

St. Petersburg Polytechnic University has developed a unique learning format within the framework of international educational programs – a Students Project Marathon based on joint students project activities.

The First International Students Project Marathon was successfully held in 2019

The Students Project Marathon is a format of interaction between partner universities, consisting in the development of joint projects by students, postgraduates and profes-sors.

  • Mixed international team: bachelor and master degree students, PhD, professors from partner universities.
  • Project task: meet current scientific and technological topics, is in demand by the industry, and cor-respond to the key directions of the world science development.
  • Joint research: research and experiments, sample testing, development of new technologies.
  • Mutual mobility: collaborative learning, intercultural communication, research work in a partner labora-tory, teaching as visiting professors.
  • Summing up: project results are evaluated by members of the expert commission - professors of both universities, representatives of customers, investors, and external experts.

International Students Project Marathon

Key points

Results for 2018 – 2020

  • Partner Universities: TU Graz (Austria), Technical University of Madrid (Spain), University of Cadiz (Spain), TU Berlin (Germany)
  • Scientific areas: IT technologies, materials science, bio-medical technologies, linguistics, energy
  • 95+ participants
  • 15+ projects
  • 10 joint scientific publications
  • 6 applications for international grants
  • 8 international conferences
  • 7 ERASMUS+ Mobility grants
International Students Project Marathon

Participants’ testimonials

«During the project, we compared two types of welding: laser and electro-beam. To do this, we conducted experiments in Russia and in Austria. The stud..
Matthias MOSCHINGER, student TU Graz
«The participants actively interacted with each other, and showed excellent re-sults. The range of disciplines in which they worked is very wide. This..
Detlef HECK, professor TU Graz
«I worked on a project connected with non-relational databases. Such databases are optimized for applications that work with large amounts of data. At..
Donat SHERGALIS, ICST student
«Not all students have the opportunity to work in laboratory every day. And if after graduation they want to continue to develop in the scientific are..
Norbert ENZINGER, TU Graz professor
«I am always excited to meet and work with new people, to exchange ideas and learn something new. Working on this project gave me exactly that opportu..
Eman BASIC, TU Graz student
«As researcher and lecturer, it is my highest desire to create and support envi-ronments that foster knowledge transfer as well as innovation. Bringin..
Matthias MÜLLER, TU Graz professor
«My part of the project was to create a web crawler and parser for the real estate project. The main part was to extract information from websites and..
Pascal WERKL, TU Graz student
«I had many doubts concerning my participation, as the project marathon was originally designed for Master’s degree students, but after all it turned ..
Lev STOYANOVSKY, ICST student