March 28 the Director of the Polish Academy of Sciences mission in Ukraine Henryk Sobchuk visited NTUU "KPI" . He met with the leadership of the university and took part in the discussion of the prospects for the development of cooperation between Polish and Ukrainian scientists.
Rector of NTUU "KPI" NASU academician Michael Zgurovsky, pro-rector for International Relations, a member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Director of the Ukrainian-Polish Centre of NTUU "KPI" Sergei Sidorenko, Deputy Vice-Chancellor Professor Sergei Shukaev and others took part in the meeting.
"We know how much Poland is doing now for Ukraine, and appreciate it very much, - said in the beginning of the meeting the rector of KPI Michael Zgurovsky. - We are also grateful for the expansion of cooperation of scientists KPI with Polish scientists through the Polish Academy of Sciences. In particular, your financial and organizational support of the first conference in December last year on water treatment was very important. We will continue to develop our cooperation and help each other in the deployment of joint projects with Polish colleagues. "
Henrik Sobchuk informed the participants that the Polish side is ready to provide all kinds of assistance, including financial, in the organization of this year's second conference on water treatment and, possibly, on the other subjects.
After discussion, the participants agreed that it is the solution of scientific problems of water treatment should be one of the main directions of further development of cooperation, and the conference on these issues should become a tradition. Moreover, Rector Michael Zgurovsky suggested that this conference, given the urgency of its subjects, will be not only scientific, but rather a practical one. Therefore, the invitation to participate in it will receive not only the researchers, active in this field, but also specialists and facility managers. However, given the increased attention of the European Union to the scientific and educational projects, only themed water treatment KPI partnership with Polish scientists should not be limited, so one must carefully work to strengthen scientific ties with European partners.
Another interesting initiatives for both the CPI and for Poland was the preparation of the book devoted to the personality of the outstanding Polish physical chemist, academician of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Vice-President of the International Union of Theoretical and Applied Chemistry, a graduate of the Kiev Polytechnic Institute in 1906 Wojciech Sventoslavskiy.The memory monument of him was opened in NTUU "KPI" on August 30 last year. The book was compiled by Ukrainian and Polish experts, it is typeset in two - Ukrainian and Polish - languages and ready for printing. The chairman of the working group Professor Sergei Shukaev informed the audience about the authors and the work on the publication. Henrik Sobchuk reported that the Polish side is ready to provide funding for the completion and publication of the book, so in the near future it will be released.
Finally university Rector Michael Zgurovsky informed Henryk Sobchuk that a new agreement between the Conference of Rectors of Polish Technical Schools and the Association of Rectors of Technical Universities of Ukraine will be signed on April 24 in the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine and invited him to take part in the ceremony and to join the work of organizing the expansion of scientific cooperation between the technical universities of both countries.