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Artificial intelligence, or simply AI, is rapidly entering the lives of every modern person.

Two important documents were signed on May 14 by the heads of Igor Sikorsky KPI and the subsidiary enterprise “Melexis-Ukraine.” The first document, a Memorandum of Cooperation, was signed by University Rector Anatoliy Melnychenko and Company Director Yevhen Vasyur.

As part of the Ajax Next initiative and in partnership with Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, Ajax Systems is holding its third Mechanical Internship for university students. Classes began on March 4 and will end at the end of the semester. Seventeen students from various university departments were selected to participate. The editorial staff of Kyiv Polytechnic spoke with representatives of the company, the department, and one of the program's graduates to learn more about the purpose of this practical training, what the interns will learn, and what prospects await those who successfully complete the program.

The Department of Inorganic Substances Technology, Water Treatment, and General Chemical Technology, together with partners from nine universities in Norway, Romania, Moldova, Serbia, and Ukraine, has secured funding in the prestigious international Erasmus+ competition with the project D

Last December, the first issue of an English-language newsletter dedicated to the life of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute was published. It was called Quarterly Newsletter. However, so many events take place at the university every week that even if only the most important ones were included in the newsletter, it would be huge.

In the turbulent days of November 2022, when russian missile strikes caused the largest systemic failure in Ukraine's power grid and plunged the country into darkness, only clear coordination and quick decision-making helped energy workers to restore power to nuclear power plants and the entire power grid in record time by international standards. Among those who stood at the control panel of Ukraine's unified power grid, supplying power to substations, was Serdar Charyev, senior dispatcher of the centralized dispatch control center of NEC Ukrenergo and a graduate of KPI. 

The exhibition “Piezoelectric motors - created in KPI” was opened in the State Polytechnic Museum named after Borys Paton. The opportunity to organize it appeared last year, when the museum staff, while researching one particular exhibit of the museum collection - a piezoelectric motor - received a unique collection of samples of such motors to replenish the museum collection in addition to information material. 

🎥 Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute hosted a two-day International Forum “Innovations in Medical Engineering” and a startup competition

Top managers of the nuclear energy industry visited the Institute of IATS in mid-March, visited laboratories and the research center, got acquainted with innovative approaches to education, met with students, researchers and teaching staff of the Institute and discussed the importance of training highly qualified specialists for the energy industry. HR specialists of Energoatom noted the high level of knowledge and demand for graduates of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute. 

Dr. Nathan Greenfield, a scholar and researcher in the field of literary theory and military conflict, author of many books, lives and works in Canada. For the second year in a row, he has been a volunteer at the FSP Sociology Department and regularly lectures to students, mainly undergraduate and graduate students. Pavlo Fedorchenko-Kutuev, Professor of the Department of Sociology at the FSP, spoke with him about his academic interests, his “discovery” of Ukraine, and his experience of communicating with Ukrainian colleagues and students.