The annual Campus Chess tournament was held at the Student Consolidation Center with the support of the students' trade union and DEW on May 17. 26 participants decided to try their hand.
On May 17, 2022, at a meeting of the National Agency for Higher Education Quality Assurance, a decision was made to accredit two educational and scientific programs of doctors of philosophy for five years: "History" in specialty 032, and "Publishing and Printing" in specialty 186.
On May 15 the world celebrates the International Day of Families. The UN General Assembly declared 1994 the International Year of Families, and in 1993 passed a resolution establishing the holiday.
The International Physicists' Tournament was held in Colombia. A team of girls, including a student of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute Yana Kalisetska, replaced the team of boys who could not take part in the competition because of the war.
The anthem of Ukrainian Sich Riflemen "Oh, the red viburnum in the meadow" performed by the concertmasters of the National Bandurist Capella of the Cultural Arts Center of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute Kateryna Mozgova and Olena Mozgova.
The first president of independent Ukraine, Leonid Kravchuk, died at the age of 89.
Leonid Makarovych Kravchuk is an outstanding political and public figure who dedicated his life to the formation of a free, democratic, prosperous state of Ukraine.
Yukhym Moiseyovych had been working at the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute since 1965: he occupied various engineering positions, was a group supervisor, and a senior researcher at the Department of Radio Receiving Devices of RTF.
Four teams took part in the competition: students of the university, students - territorial defense volunteers, Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute veterans and police. With the war, the varsity team did not play in full, and the territorial defenders made their debut in the tournament.
Приймальна комісія КПІ ім. Ігоря Сікорського на засіданні 06 травня 2022 року зазначила таке:
🔹 Учора, 5 травня 2022 року, МОН України офіційно оприлюднило Порядок прийняття на навчання для здобуття вищої освіти у 2022 році. Отже, вступна кампанія офіційно стартувала.