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🇪🇪 The Rector of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, together with the heads of 12 Ukrainian universities and representatives of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, including Deputy Minister Mykola Trofymenko, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, and the National Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine, visited Estonia on a working visit.
Three days of events, more than 7,500 visitors, and countless opportunities to discover 🇯🇵 Japan up close — this was this year’s festival, organized by the Ukrainian-Japanese Center of Igor Sikorsky Polytechnic Institute, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year.
Modern physics, experimental research, and fundamental science: members of the Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute community took part in an open dialogue with Steven Goldfarb, a French-American experimental particle physicist.
Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute welcomed a delegation from the House of Representatives of Japan led by its Speaker Eisuke Mori, accompanied by Representative Masahito Moriyama and Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Japan to Ukraine Yo Osumi, together with representatives of the Embassy of Japan.
This summer, Dina Koltysheva, Assistant Lecturer at the Department of Bioenergy, Bioinformatics and Ecobiotechnology of the Faculty of Biotechnology, took part in the Summer Academy of the Bavarian Environmental Administration. The training, or rather, internship, took place in the city of Hof from July 20 to 31, 2026.
International engineering and manufacturing company RSE has opened the Energy Resilience Lab at Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute (KPI) — a unique training and research facility dedicated to strengthening Ukraine’s energy resilience. The laboratory will enable energy engineering students from across Ukraine to work with modern energy equipment, explore distributed generation technologies, and gain hands-on experience with solutions already deployed at real-world energy facilities implemented by RSE throughout the country.
Lockheed Martin is one of the world’s largest aerospace and defense companies, operating in aviation, space, and other high-technology fields. The visit holds particular significance for Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute — a university with a strong engineering and scientific tradition and expertise across many of these fields.
🤝 Igor Sikorsky Polytechnic Institute hosted a meeting with Alek Waszkielewicz, Chair of the Board of the “Fronia” Foundation for Supporting People with Disabilities (Poland), who has 20 years of experience in accessibility and extensive expertise in implementing accessibility and inclusion principles in public administration and university environments.
🏆 IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), the world’s largest international professional organization of engineers, has recognized the university in the Organisational Supporting Friend category.
