Demining

At the Information and Analytical Situation Center of Igor Sikorsky KPI, the latest stage of training for female specialists within the large-scale “She Is a Deminer” program has been successfully completed. This practical workshop is being held for the second time, which attests to the high effectiveness of the chosen training methodology and the critical importance of training qualified personnel for the field of mine action.

Igor Sikorsky KPI became the venue and an active participant in the “Safety Distance” event, which focused on the use of remote systems for detecting explosive objects in mine action. Such technologies minimize risks to people and speed up the survey of territories.

The university hosted a meeting with representatives of the Ukrainian Mine Action Center and the non-profit organization Copenhagen Hazard Mapping (🇩🇰 Kingdom of Denmark).

Andriy Shysholin, Vice Rector for International Relations at Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute (KPI); Oksana Vovk, Director of the Educational and Scientific Institute of Energy Conservation and Energy Management at KPI; and Kateryna Lugovska, Director of the Ukrainian-Japanese Center at KPI, met on December 16 with Mykhailo Turyanytsia, a communications specialist at the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS), Mykhailo Turyanytsia, and a journalist from the Kyodo News Agency, Narumi Tateda (Japan).

The VR Deminer's Lab hackathon brought together student teams who developed concepts, scenarios, and visual prototypes of VR/AR simulators for training sappers — solutions capable of improving the training process in accordance with professional standard 5169 “Explosive Ordnance Disposal Operator (Deminer)”.

The cooperation will strengthen the practical component of student training, particularly in the field of humanitarian demining.

KPI students have won the AI Labeling Sprint, a competition for young people interested in humanitarian demining and striving to make the country safer. 

The organizers of this hackathon to train AI to detect explosive objects from the air are: 

Humanitarian demining is extremely important for our country. The work on clearing vast areas of mines and all kinds of explosive debris, which is already underway and will reach a huge scale after the war is over, requires, firstly, human resources, secondly, a significant amount of special equipment, and thirdly, constant improvement of demining technologies and their implementation. And all of these “first,” “second,” and “third” have recently been directly related to Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute. 

🇺🇦🇯🇵🇺🇳 An important two-day working meeting was held within the framework of the Humanitarian Mine Action and Security System project under the joint program of UNIDO (United Nations Industrial Development Organization) and the Government of Japan.

At the XIII International Festival of Innovative Projects “Sikorsky Challenge 2024: Innovations for Peace and Security of Ukraine”, the team of the project “Modular Remote Demining System ‘Impactor’ won the Best Startup Solution nomination. The authors of the development are members of the Geotron student research group.