To support the most talented young researchers and encourage outstanding scientific achievements, the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, by Order No. 1526 of November 19, 2025, awarded Presidential Academic Scholarships for the 2025/2026 academic year to selected PhD students. The scholarship amounts to UAH 23,700 per month. Among the recipients are two researchers from Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute: Andrii Makarchuk (Educational and Research Institute of Nuclear and Thermal Energy; see Kyiv Polytechnic, No. 3–4, 2026) and Roman Pedan (Yevhen O. Paton Educational and Research Institute of Materials Science and Welding).

Early spring is a special time each year for Yuri Bohomol, Head of the Department of High-Temperature Materials and Powder Metallurgy at Igor Sikorsky Polytechnic Institute and recipient of the 2025 Borys Paton National Prize of Ukraine.

The Tech360: Policy Meets Technology conference recently took place—an event dedicated to the full cycle of IT business development in Ukraine, organized by the IT Ukraine Association. The event brought together over 800 participants: leaders of technology companies, representatives of the public sector, and leading universities.

At a meeting of the Academic Council of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, Oleksandr Dmytrovych Mokhunko—a senior lecturer in the Department of Health and Sports Technologies (FBMI) and a veteran of the Russian-Ukrainian war—was awarded the Honorary Distinction of the University’s Academic Council.

☑️ Three faculty members and four students from Igor Sikorsky KPI visited ENSTA (École Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées) as part of the Erasmus+ KA171 project—a leading French engineering institution that trains specialists for high-tech sectors ranging from transportation,

🇧🇬 Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute (KPI) welcomed an important guest—Kiril Petkov, former Prime Minister of the Republic of Bulgaria, politician, economist, and entrepreneur.

After a cold and anxious winter, we long for warmth, light, and hope. The exhibition Women’s Territory of Art at Igor Sikorsky Polytechnic Institute, on display at the Igor Sikorsky Polytechnic Institute Art Gallery, offers a welcome opportunity to connect with beauty. The exhibition features works by female university staff members, including paintings, graphic art, embroidery, and decorative and applied art.

At the beginning of March, an off-campus seminar in Slavutych was organized for students of the Faculty of Sociology and Law at Igor Sikorsky Polytechnic Institute who are pursuing degrees in Social Work. The city is currently preparing to host commemorative events marking the 40th anniversary of the Chornobyl disaster. The seminar therefore focused on introducing students to life in this 40-year-old city, which was built specifically to accommodate workers of the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant.

Intellectual games are becoming increasingly popular at Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute. University-wide and city chess tournaments hosted on campus have attracted growing participation, with Polytechnic students consistently achieving outstanding results. More recently, tournaments in Go and Shogi have also been added, promoted by the Ukrainian-Japanese Center. These Japanese strategy games can be considered close relatives of chess, offering even broader strategic possibilities. 

95 employees of Kyiv Polytechnic Institute took part in a cultural and educational tour of Shevchenko’s sites in the Cherkasy region.