🇧🇬 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.

🏓 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, the 31st Ukrainian Antarctic Expedition began its work at Akademik Vernadsky Station. The team has replaced the members of the 30th Ukrainian Antarctic Expedition and will spend a year at the station. The position of system administrator is held by Igor Sikorsky Polytechnic Institute graduate Oleksandr Matsibura. This will be his second wintering at the station.

Modern industry is undergoing an active transformation, with traditional manufacturing methods increasingly being supplemented or replaced by additive technologies. The layer-by-layer production of objects based on three-dimensional digital models opens up new technological opportunities, including the manufacturing of parts with highly complex geometries, structural weight optimization, and shorter prototyping and production cycles.

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.