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In recent decades, biotechnology has often been called one of the leading sectors driving societal development, and biotech terminology has recently become commonplace virtually worldwide. After all, who hasn’t heard of PCR tests or various types of viruses, some of which have crown-like structures?

🕯 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.

In late fall, as part of agreements with the “Ukraine Energy Autark” association aimed at promoting innovative research projects and their implementation to achieve Ukraine’s energy self-sufficiency, Olga Vlasenko, senior lecturer at the Institute of IATE at the Faculty of Energy and Environmental Engineering, and Dina Koltysheva, assistant at the Department of Bioenergy, Bioinformatics and Ecobiotechnology at the FBT Dina Koltysheva, successfully completed an internship in Germany on the topic “Biogas and Energy Biomass Utilization” (pictured).

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.’