Partners Visit to Launch an Educational Program on Humanitarian Demining

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).

Underground shelters made of soil concrete: reliable, inexpensive, quick to build

The winners of the innovative projects competition held as part of the Sikorsky Challenge 2025 festival, which recently took place at KPI, have been announced. They will receive funding to implement their ideas. This is the fourth festival held during the war, so its priorities included a defense forum and projects aimed at protecting the civilian population and critical infrastructure. The authors describe one of the developments that addresses an urgent need: the construction of shelters.
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🎥 KPI students — winners of the VR Deminer's Lab hackathon

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)”.

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