Professional programmers competition held March 2, 2013 at the Odessa National University named after II Mechnikov. The company Opera Software donated prizes and sponsored the event. Odessa National Polytechnic University, Computer Systems Odessa company was also involved in organizing the event. The main prize of the competition, a powerful professional notebook student went 4-year degree in Applied Mathematics IMEM ONU Yuri Monastyrshin. Two second prize - a Tablet PC with a 4-core processors, went to his classmates Polyakovv Fedor and Anna Katz. Three third prize - a smartphone company HTC, got ONU students Sergei Sklyanichenko, Ilya Shekera and ONPU Cyril Leventsu.
On February 4-11 professor Sergey Yakubovskiy – Head of the Department of World Economy and International Economic Relations of the IMEM ONU visited the Open Society Institute (OSI, Budapest, Hungary). During his visit professor Yakubovskiy discussed the possibilities of deepening the cooperation between OSI and IMEM. In particular, approval was received to fully finance the visit of professor Halpern – leading European expert in the field of international finance to the department of World Economy and International Economic Relations. OSI agreed to purchase modern economic literature for the IMEM in the field of international economic relations.