Press Service

♟Last week at Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, a true chess marathon took place—from faculty tournaments to championships among amateurs and professionals.

The “Deer Antlers” team from the Faculty of Electronics (FEL) at Igor Sikorsky KPI won the Brave1 engineering challenge as part of the Brave Students initiative.

A ceremony was held to honor the nominees and winners of the student essay contest “Startup Diplomacy: Ukraine and Azerbaijan in Building Innovation Partnership,” organized with the support of the 🇦🇿 Embassy of the Republic of Azerbaijan in Ukraine.

😢 Our university community has suffered another loss. It has been reported that another student of Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, Artem Krulikovsky, has died.

🕯 Maria Bigun (Leut), a graduate of Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, was killed in the war (August 28, 2000 — February 21, 2026)

🕯Kyiv Polytechnic student Daria Lopatina (July 8, 2006 — September 2, 2025) was killed in action.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) provided KPI with its second grant since the start of the full-scale war. In 2022, the university received its first emergency grant, which allowed it to quickly migrate its infrastructure to a cloud environment. At that time, digital services were operating in a partner environment provided by EPAM. Later, the university completely switched to its own AWS account.

Kyiv Polytechnic Institute hosted the All-Ukrainian Scientific and Practical Conference “Historical Model of the UN” in the format of an educational role-playing game.

🔵 Kyiv Polytechnic Institute and Kyiv Military Hub are starting systematic cooperation in the field of veteran support.

🤝 The partnership covers:

Igor Sikorsky KPI became the venue and an active participant in the “Safety Distance” event, which focused on the use of remote systems for detecting explosive objects in mine action. Such technologies minimize risks to people and speed up the survey of territories.