The World Masters Games—for veteran athletes—were recently held in Abu Dhabi (UAE). The Ukrainian 65+ team participated in the soccer tournament, featuring Igor Mentukov, an employee of the Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute (KPI) campus and a specialist and member of the university’s trade union committee. The Ukrainian soccer players won first place and were awarded gold medals. Ihor Oleksiyovych spoke to a correspondent from “Kyiv Polytechnic” about participating in the World Masters Games.

At the beginning of April, the Scientific and Technical Library of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute hosted a friendly game of What? Where? When?, organized by the student association ESTIEM LG Kyiv. True to its "friendly" format, the event focused not on fierce competition for prizes but on intellectual enjoyment, teamwork, and creating a lively atmosphere in which participants could challenge themselves while having fun.

Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute has been named one of the 10 winning universities in the prestigious UK–UA Visiting Professors Programme, selected by the Presidential Fund of Ukraine for the Support of Education, Science, and Sports.

Living stories about poet Maksym Rylsky—Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (1943), Chairman of the Writers’ Union of Ukraine (1943–1946), director of the Institute of Art Studies, Folklore, and Ethnography (1944–1964)—were heard by students, faculty, and staff of KPI, as well as everyone who visited the Scientific and Technical Library on March 17 for a meeting with his grandson—also named Maksym Rylsky, a writer, public figure, and Honored Journalist of Ukraine.

The IPSAK Club “Systems Engineering and Programming (based on autonomous systems)” has launched at the Faculty of Informatics and Computer Engineering (FIOT) of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute.

The Educational, Scientific, Publishing, and Printing Institute (VPI Institute) at Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute presented a renovated shelter and a new student space.

In June, on Volodymyr Boiko’s birthday, a memorial plaque in his honor was unveiled in Building 18 of the FIOT at Kyiv Polytechnic Institute.

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.