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).

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.

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.

🏓 Our students performed successfully in the table tennis competition at the 21st Universiade in Kyiv: two university teams made it into the top ranks and earned KPI important points in the overall standings.

The results of one of the world’s most influential university rankings have been released—and Kyiv Polytechnic Institute has once again confirmed its status as a leader in technical education in Ukraine.

Recently, Team dcua from the Educational and Research Institute of Physics and Technology (PTI) of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute won the Open Final of the Swedish National Cybersecurity Championship (Säkerhets-SM) in Stockholm. With this achievement, the team reaffirmed its status as one of the strongest not only in Ukraine but also in Europe.