FBT

📜A quarter of a century ago, KPI initiated the separation of biotechnology as a field of training for domestic specialists and was one of the first in Ukraine to begin teaching students in all major biotechnology specializations. Today, the FBT is a place where science becomes technology and works for bioenergy and environmental safety, developing domestic biopharmacy and bioengineering in our country.

🕯 The Kyiv Polytechnic community is once again in mourning. On February 15, 2026, KPI graduate Denis “Fox” Gordeev, a lieutenant and commander of a platoon of unmanned aerial vehicles of the 156th Mechanized Brigade, was killed while performing a combat mission in Donetsk Oblast. He was 36 years old.

As Kyiv Polytechnic previously reported, at the end of the XIV Festival of Innovative Projects “Sikorsky Challenge 2025,” in accordance with its program and within the framework of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization's project “Global Innovation and Networking Program in Green Chemistry” (GreenChem), the Global Greenchem Hackathon 2025 was held from October 31 to November 2.

Representatives of the Department of Bioenergy, Bioinformatics, and Ecobiotechnology of the FBT of Igor Sikorsky KPI took part in the Summer Academy of the Bavarian State Office for Environmental Protection, which was held from July 21 to August 1 this year.

In the 4th building of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, memorial plaques to two of our student-heroes - Oleg Kubey and Oleksandr Chukhno - were unveiled.

Oleksandr Chukhno, a student of the Faculty of Biotechnology and Biotechnology in 2009-2013, who studied at the Department of Industrial Biotechnology, died. Oleksandr had an active civic position and was the chairman of the FBT student council in 2011-2012.

At the end of May, the international hackathons Smart City Challenge and BioHackathon were held in Warsaw. They were organized by the Student Government of the Warsaw University of Technology, the Herbion Biotechnology Research Group of the Warsaw University of Technology, the Center for International Cooperation, and the student research groups Ventures and Startups and Innovation of the Warsaw School of Economics.

Zhanna Ostapenko is one of a cohort of engineers educated by Kyiv Polytechnic, who, according to KPI Rector Anatoliy Melnychenko, ‘should create, design, be inventors and innovators.’

On June 25, 2024, a regular meeting of the National Agency for Higher Education Quality Assurance (NAQA) was held.