From June 18 to 22, Saint Petersburg hosted a major international event - the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum 2025. The Forum addressed a range of pivotal global issues, including tectonic shifts in the global economy and demographics, world population dynamics, as well as social, public, and geopolitical tensions.
As part of the Forum, teachers and students from OSMU actively contributed to a number of high-profile events. Notably, Assoc. Prof. Natalia V. SEMENOVA, MD, PhD, Assoc. Prof. of the Department of Extreme and Evidence Based Medicine and Head of the Youth Innovation Center of OSMU, participated as an expert evaluator in the foresight session «Digital Technologies Shaping the Future: Opportunities and Risks for the World by 2100», during its preliminary student project selection stage.
Tatiana YAKUBENKO, a 4th-year student of the Faculty of General Medicine, represented OSMU as a member of the international project team «Human of the Future: Homo evolutionis». The foresight Forum was held at Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University and brought together six international student teams, each formed from candidates who had successfully passed the preliminary selection. During an intensive 11-hour Youth Project Day, participants developed forward-looking concepts in fields such as medicine, society, economics, the future of science, cognition, and artificial intelligence, all guided by professional experts and mentors.
The teams included around one hundred students from thirty countries worldwide, including Ecuador, Zimbabwe, Paraguay, Venezuela, Canada, Madagascar, Spain, the United Kingdom, Guatemala, Kazakhstan, Luxembourg, Nigeria, Mongolia, Uzbekistan, among others.
Amidst intense competition, the team «Human of the Future: Homo evolutionis», with Tatiana YAKUBENKO playing an active role, advanced to the final round and earned the opportunity to present their project at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, where they ultimately emerged victorious. Their award-winning project explored society’s escalating demand for advancements in bioengineering, cybernetics, and digital modification technologies by the year 2100. The team envisioned a future beyond 2100 marked by a complete symbiosis between humans and machines through the use of quantum interfaces. These forward-looking projections were presented during the Forum’s Youth Day.
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