SAINT PETERSBURG NATIONAL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY of INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES, MECHANICS and OPTICS: Project meeting 4-5 September 2012 Northern (Arctic) Federal University Arkhangelsk

An AGREEMENT OF ACADEMIC AND SCIENTIFIC COOPERATION between Norwegian Centre for Integrated Care and Telemedicine and Saint Petersburg National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics is going to be signed in September – early October 2012 (the draft has already been approved by relevant administrative authorities within the NST and ITMO) to: establish concrete educational collaboration develop student exchanges organize other academic and research activities in the field of telemedicine and e-health Project meeting 4-5 September 2012 A1.1 EDUCATION & EXCHANGE

Denis KOROTYAEV (was working on master thesis at NST on February, 13 – March, 23) Sending institutionNothern Arctic Federal University Receiving institution Norwegian Center for Telemedicine Title of the project Prototype building and testing for detection of malignant melanoma based on skin lesion images Name of foreign supervisor: Prof. Fred Gotliebsen Name of Russian supervisor:PhD, ass. Professor Alexander Popov Andrey PROSKURYAKOV (was working on master thesis at NST on February, 13 – March, 23) Sending institutionNothern (Arctic) Federal University Receiving institution Norwegian Center for Telemedicine Title of the project Classification of skin lesion images Name of foreign supervisor: Dr. Stein Olav Skrovseth Name of Russian supervisor:PhD, ass. Professor Vladimir Berezovsky Project meeting 4-5 September 2012 A1.1 EDUCATION & EXCHANGE

The possibility of arranging the following distance courses in the field of Telemedicine and e-Health is currently discussed by ITMO and NST: Telemedicine and e-health systems Medical informatics As expected, a group of students ca people will take part at the lecture series. University ITMO uses teaching methods based on Web2.0 Technology and Social Group concept for distance learning For each distance course the dedicated social group is created due to students and teaching staff will be able to see lectures live over the Internet and share lecture materials for downloading. Students have the option of logging in at a later time to watch video materials of the lecture. The lecturer will normally provide students with lecture notes, a recommended text book and a reading list. Student is also able to upload completed assignments and access various teaching materials, handouts to assist their study and to interact with tutors. Project meeting 4-5 September 2012 A1.1 EDUCATION & EXCHANGE

Project meeting 4-5 September 2012

A1.2 Education and Research Networking June, 2012 MyFire Russian workshop, ITMO, St Petersburg The workshop was arranged with direct participation of KITENPI partners in pursuit to develop educational and research networking in the field of Information Technologies. The event was collocated to the annual conference “Telematics” dedicated to IT development in research. Among the guests of MyFIRE Russian workshop were representatives of the IBM Company, the Moscow State University and other significant people. Professor Arkady Zaslavsky (LTU, Sweden) made a report about Internet of Things at the plenary session and shared his ideas about Future Internet with scientific community. Project meeting 4-5 September 2012

A1.3 Master Programmes sharing March, 2012 Spring International School “High performance computation on GRID systems”, NArFU, Arkhangelsk It is an international scientific and practical young school created within the framework of the International master programme "Software, systems and services development in the global environment". Key lectures were delivered by partners from LTU, ITMO, NARFU, in particular: Lars Furberg, LTU, Sweden Alexander Boukhanovsky, ITMO, Russia Sergey Kovalchuck, ITMO, Russia Vladimir Berezovsky, NArFU, Russia Project meeting 4-5 September 2012

A1.3 Master Programmes sharing Master Courses «Computational Science in Multidisciplinary Research» Organized under auspices of ENPI CBC Kolarctic-KITENPI Project and Consortium for Education in Supercomputing at Presidential Commission for Modernization and Economic Development, Russian Federation. Partners: 1.Saint Petersburg National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics, Russia 2.Northern (Arctic) Federal University, Russia Start of the Programme: September 2012

Project meeting 4-5 September 2012 A1.3 Master Programmes sharing University ITMO:Luleå University of Technology: Computing systems (4 ECTS)Dependable high performance communication infrastructures for clouds (4 ECTS) Interdisciplinary Project (3 ECTS) Close partner co-operation during the master’s programmes sharing has led to the emergence of new ideas for joint cooperation University ITMO and Luleå University of Technology showed mutual interest in sharing the following courses: Their collaboration in that field has led to proposal “Modernization of the Master's program “High Performance Computing Systems"(HPComS) for TEMPUS –IV-Call V.

Project meeting 4-5 September 2012 A1.3 Master Programmes sharing University ITMO:NArFU Parallel Computing and Programming (5 ECTS) Advanced Networking (5 ECTS) Distributed Systems and Applications (5 ECTS) Security in Distributed Systems (4 ECTS) Web Services (4 ECTS)Virtualization (4 ECTS) University ITMO and Nothern (Arctic) Federal University named after M.V. Lomonosov showed mutual interest in sharing the following courses: Their collaboration in that field has led to proposal “Development and Implementation of Master’s program “Service Oriented Computing in eScience“ (SOCeS) for TEMPUS –IV-Call V.

Project meeting 4-5 September 2012 A1.3 Master Programmes sharing ERASMUS MUNDUS Action 1A Erasmus Mundus Master Courses (EMMC) Title: PERvasive Computing and COMmunications for sustainable development Developed in close cooperation with KITENPI partners Partners: 1. University of Lorraine, France 2. Luleå University of Technology, Sweden 3. Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland, 4. Saint Petersburg National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics, Russia Start of the Programme: September 2013