On 24-26 May, 2013 at the recreation center, "Archer", near Kielce, an annual seminar "Economic Cooperation in Poland and Ukraine" was held, organized by the Section of KPI students in Poland.
The reports on the economy of Ukraine and the Polish- Ukrainian trade were made by Henrik Bukalskyy and Janusz Fuchs. They noted that in Ukraine in 2012 compared with the previous year 's GDP growth was 0.2 %, with industrial production falling by 1.8 %. Exports grew by 0.6 % and imports by 2.5 %. Polish commodity supplies to Ukraine during the same period increased by 12.6 %, while shipments from Ukraine to Poland by 8.6 %. The structure of Polish exports to Ukraine dominated by machinery, vehicles, chemicals and food products, and imports - metallurgical enterprises, raw materials, including iron ore, as well as food.
The President made a report on the activities of the section of KPI students during the year. He told, in particular, about the departure of the delegation to Section Kyiv to celebrate the beginning of the school year at the Kyiv Polytechnic of the October meeting in Warsaw to mark the 90th anniversary of the Section. He also said that "KPI" for the third time won first place in the ranking of two hundred universities in Ukraine, and that the campus was laid a memorial stone on the site of the future monument to Professor Wojciech Sventoslavsky. He informed of the award by the President of Poland, the rector of the Kiev Polytechnic Institute Michael Zhurovsky who achieved the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland ( the order will be submitted for presentation at the Polish Embassy in Kiev). The Chairman also said that this year, the board of the Federation of Scientific and Technical Societies NOT awarded by Golden medals two university employees - Alexander and Oleg Zbrutsky Hotsyanivskoho. Medals will be awarded in Kiev. Participants get regular brochure from "The Memoirs of Kyiv": "St. Petersburg and its surroundings" (issue 26) and "Famous professors and graduates of the Kiev Polytechnic Institute" (issue 27).
Participants also visited the museum of the writer Henryk Sienkiewicz in Oblembork, Checiny Castle (XIII century), learned the local museum Old Polish swimming pool, which holds dozens of machines and other equipment models of XIX century.