In July 2024, the implementation of a joint international European project was completed, within the framework of which 8 seminars ‘Scientists Meet Scientists. Wednesday Coffee Talks’ (Seminar Series titled ’Scientists Meet Scientists. Wednesday Coffee Talks"), dedicated mainly to the problems of multidisciplinarity of socio-economic, environmental and climatic sections and digitalisation of society.
The project started in October 2023 and Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute took an active part in it. The experts of our university represented the economic dimension of sustainable development.
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The Faculty of Electronics and the Faculty of Management and Marketing were jointly involved in this series of seminars from the Ukrainian side during the 2023/2024 academic year. The international organiser was the Technical University of Munich (TUM, Germany). The project involved universities in Eastern, Southeastern and Central Europe. This network included Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, Wigner Institute of Physics (Hungary), Poznan University of Life Sciences (Poland), Dimitri Cantemir Christian University (Romania), Riga Technical University (Latvia), Technical University of Vienna (Austria), University of Freiburg (Germany), Technical University of Munich (Germany).
The Institute for Advanced Study (IAS - a division of the Technical University of Munich) has been operating since 2005 and offers foreign scientists opportunities to develop high-level interdisciplinary research. The seminars focused on a wide range of interdisciplinary research, namely ‘The Three-Legged Chair: The Interaction of Environment, Economy and Society’ (presented by Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary), “Mental Health and Sustainability - The Importance of Our Attitude to Nature” (Poznan University of Life Sciences), “Innovations in Digitalisation as Part of Sustainable Development of University Education” (Dimitri Cantemir Christian University, Bucharest, Romania), “Sustainable Development Methodology as a Tool for Country Studies and Decision Making” (Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, Ukraine), “Sustainable Development Methodology as a Tool for Research and Decision Making” (University of Kyiv, Ukraine). Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute), ‘The impact of climate change on soil structure and associated organic carbon in alpine meadow soils’ (Technical University of Munich), ‘Stakeholder engagement in environmental science’ (Poznan University of Life Sciences), ‘Go2Green - towards a transition to sustainable and clean energy’ (Riga Technical University and the American University of the Middle East, Egail, Kuwait), ’Renewable energy sources and the restoration of authoritarianism: The Economic Case for Solar Energy in the Middle East and North Africa (Young Academy for Sustainable Development Research, University of Freiburg, Germany). This is a total of 8 seminars lasting about one hour each, held on the last Wednesday of the month. The number of participants reached 55 people, and 15 specialists from our university participated. Thus, our university has joined the European network of universities in Eastern, South-Eastern and Central Europe, and specialists had the opportunity to get acquainted with advanced interdisciplinary research, share their own scientific achievements, promote our Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute in the international scientific space and present the results of their own research in the field of sustainable development.
On 31 January 2024, the seminar also discussed a report from our university on the topic ‘Sustainable Development Methodology as a Tool for Research and Decision Making’. Interest was aroused in the tools for calculating indices of economic, social and environmental dimensions, as well as the human security index for a particular region or country. It was noted that the results of the calculations should be used to make and implement management decisions at the levels of regions, countries, and integration groups.