On November 6, 2017, a regular meeting of the Academic Council of the University took place.
It began with the congratulations of the jubilians: the head of the department of geo-engineering and mining technologies, Doctor of Technical Sciences, professor V.G.Kravets and the head of the Department of Scientific, Analytical and Environmental devices and systems Doctor of Technical Sciences, professor V.A. Poreva.
After that was the presentation of the diploma "Honored Worker of the Igor Sikorsky KPI" to Artem Yosypovych Savitsky.
The next was considering of the issue about the results of the "Sikorsky Challenge" competition in 2017. Pro-rector O.M. Novikov was a reporter. He described the stages of the festival's preparation, named participants of the competitions and provided their statistics: 213 projects were submitted to the competition of start-ups, "Intel-Techno Ukraine" - 270 projects and "Future of Ukraine" - 62 projects. Oleksiy Nikolayevich also named the speakers' representatives of the Innovation Forum, discussion panels and speakers of the "Intellectual Technologies Academy". After that, the winners of the start-up competition were listed and the prospects for the development of the start-up school network and the regional competitions of the students' scientific and technical creativity were outlined. The speaker drew attention to the fact that nowadays the important task is to attract more domestic and foreign investors to participate in the competition.
Finally, the competition issues and current affairs were discussed. In particular, the participants of the meeting discussed the issue of establishing an international electronic scientific publication of the journal "Innovative Biosystems & Bioengineering" and the issue of opening the training of specialists in the field of "Management in the field of defense-industrial complex" within the specialty "Public Management and Administration" at the Department of theory and practice of the management of the FSL.
A.A. Melnichenko, scientific secretary of the Igor Sikorsky KPI
(Переклад Цвик Н.П. ЛА-42)