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As Kyiv Polytechnic previously reported, at the end of the XIV Festival of Innovative Projects “Sikorsky Challenge 2025,” in accordance with its program and within the framework of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization's project “Global Innovation and Networking Program in Green Chemistry” (GreenChem), the Global Greenchem Hackathon 2025 was held from October 31 to November 2.

Representatives of the Department of Bioenergy, Bioinformatics, and Ecobiotechnology of the FBT of Igor Sikorsky KPI took part in the Summer Academy of the Bavarian State Office for Environmental Protection, which was held from July 21 to August 1 this year.

In the 4th building of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, memorial plaques to two of our student-heroes - Oleg Kubey and Oleksandr Chukhno - were unveiled.

Oleksandr Chukhno, a student of the Faculty of Biotechnology and Biotechnology in 2009-2013, who studied at the Department of Industrial Biotechnology, died. Oleksandr had an active civic position and was the chairman of the FBT student council in 2011-2012.

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.

Zhanna Ostapenko is one of a cohort of engineers educated by Kyiv Polytechnic, who, according to KPI Rector Anatoliy Melnychenko, ‘should create, design, be inventors and innovators.’

On June 25, 2024, a regular meeting of the National Agency for Higher Education Quality Assurance (NAQA) was held.

On 23 May, Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute was visited by the leaders of the Kyiv Agrarian University of the National Academy of Agrarian Sciences of Ukraine - Acting Rector Oleksandr Nikitiuk and First Vice-Rector Olesia Lynovytska (photo right).

Is it possible to generate electricity from wastewater, organic waste, or biomass? Yes, according to bioenergy and electrochemists. Microbial fuel cells have the potential to create efficient and sustainable energy sources.