"The Ukrainian Order of the Steel Cross is a copy of the Nazi Iron Cross," was the nonsense spread on social media at the end of last year by provocateurs and ignorant russian telegram channels, who, as they say, hear the bell ringing but don't know where it comes from.
Vitalii Pasichnyk, Vice-Rector for Research, notes that in 2022, a significant part of the projects implemented at Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute is important for the security and defense of Ukraine.
Earlier this year, the PolyITAN-HP-30 nanosatellite developed and manufactured by Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute scientists was launched into space.
After a forced break, first due to COVID-19, and then due to the war and shelling of Kyiv, Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute once again hosted the annual beAhead Job Fair, where job seekers could meet with representatives of university partner companies.
On April 20, the Conference of the Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute staff was held at the Center for Culture and Arts. For the first time in almost four years, it was held in person.
The KPI team defended the title of Kyiv Rapid Chess Champion, which it has held since 2016, at the city chess championship among university student teams under the program of the XVIII Summer Universiade of Kyiv.
In the final of the startup competition at the XI Festival of Innovative Projects "Sikorsky Challenge 2022", a project on the production of hydrogen by electrolysis using ultrasonic cavitation was presented.
On April 10-12, 2023, the Department of Power Supply of the Institute of IEE and the Department of Thermal and Alternative Energy of the Institute of IAPM jointly held an open university student Olympiad in the discipline "Energy Management" for the specialties 141 "Electric Power Engine
This year's first KPIabitFest, the university-wide Open Day of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, took place on April 8. This time it was held in a mixed format (in person and online).
It all started with the initiative of the student council of the Faculty of Electronics FEL Famsly to organize a student competition aimed at improving the landscaping of the university and dedicated to the 125th anniversary of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute.
