Delegation of the World Bank experts visited Igor Sikorsky KPI in February, 2. Members of the delegation were support program manager, innovation expert (Europe and Central Asia regions) Anvar Aridi, leading economist of the innovation department and representation office Xavier Cirera, senior consultant David Cheini and consultant Iryna Kuzmyna.
Rector of the university, academician of Ukrainian NAS, Mykhailo Zgurovskyi, university pro-rector for interns cooperation, correspondent member of Ukrainian NAS, Sergii Sydorenko, member of Examining Board of Igor Sikorsky KPI, Bohdan Andriitsev, managing director of Scientific Park "Kyiv Polytechnics", Volodymyr Hnat and others welcomed the guests.
The purpose of the visit of the World Bank representatives was to familiarize with innovative ecosystem of Igor Sikorsky KPI, thus Volodymyr Hnat spoke about the work and projects of Scientific Park "Kyiv polytechnics" that is a core of this infrastructure. A particular attention in the course of the work of university ecosystem discussion was paid to "Sikorsky Challenge", its organization and involvement of innovators and businesspeople into this project. Start-up school "Sikorsky Challenge" and problems of its experience sharing among other higher education establishments as well as project of innovative city "Politeco Science City" went unnoticed too. Specialists of the World Bank showed an interest also to the system of Scientific Park management and the number of its employees. Problems of regulatory support of innovative activity and mechanisms of their solving, as well as attraction of investors to cooperation with innovators and their partnership conditions, in one word, all questions that have to be solved probably by all innovative structures of our country were under discussion at the meeting.