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.
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This is one of the events that the universities of the ENHANCE Alliance jointly implement thanks to the funding provided by the National Agency for Academic Exchange of Poland (NAWA). Participation in them creates excellent opportunities for students and young researchers for professional growth and development. One of the participants and co-coordinators of the project, within the framework of which these events were held at the Warsaw Polytechnic and Ukrainian students took part in them, is the DNVR of the KPI.
Ukraine was represented in Warsaw by 14 students from Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute and Lviv Polytechnic National University. The KPI delegation included students of the FBMI - Anna Prosvetova, Sofia Zaichenko, Maria Nechyporenko, Oksana Krailo, Yana Smirnova and FBT - Anna Tarnavska and Daryna Khyzhna. They joined the Biohackathon, which was aimed at creating solutions for waste management. The girls were assigned to different teams that worked on different tasks.
After 48 hours of intensive work on solving the problem or identifying new opportunities for waste management, the winners were determined. Among the members of the team that won the Biohackathon was a student of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute. According to Olha Demydenko, Head of the Academic Mobility Unit of the University's Department of Educational Work, this is an undoubted victory for Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, because in such a difficult time for the country and the national education system, our girls can participate in such competitions in completely non-standard conditions, can win, can show flexible creative thinking. “That's why I am proud of each of them and consider each of them a winner, regardless of whose team took the first or other prize. They are all winners!” she emphasized.
One of the KPI representatives, Daryna Khyzhna, noted after the competition: “During the implementation of the academic mobility project, we realized how many young, promising, and ambitious people surrounded us! Together with your team, you live your project, give your best and complement each other's knowledge and skills. Volunteers and staff of the Warsaw University of Technology were always ready to listen to our ideas, concerns, and evaluate the technical side of the plan. We are sincerely grateful to our teachers, faculty and the Department of Academic Mobility of KPI for the opportunity to join the competition, as well as to each of its participants, because without them there would not have been the atmosphere of team spirit and enthusiasm that prevailed during the hackathon.”