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Civic formations for policing used to exist in every organization of the country. But after Soviet Union breakup the society was almost eliminated from the fight with crime for a while.

On the 22 of May, on the premises of our university The Association of Central and East European educational and science networks (CEENET), supported by the EU and the 7th Framework Programme of the development of the EU, held the International Conference on the e-Infrastructure development

On June 27 an Educational Scientific Center "Clean Water" was inaugurated in the National Technical University of Ukraine "Kyiv Polytechnic Institute". It is established by the NTUU "KPI" and the research-and-production enterprise "Nature Technologies". The purpose of the ESC "Clean Water" – to promote the solution of the problem of clean drinkable water supply to Ukrainian residents. The decision is urgent for our country: well known is the fact, that due to bad ecological condition of surface water and water supply sources and because of archaic water treatment technologies at the same time, more than 50% of our population consume water, completely unfit for usage.

"An access to clean drinkable water is the problem that becomes more urgent in this century and eventually it will be more acute. Its solution depends primarily on the technology advancement and skilled professionals able to work with it, said the Rector of the NTUU "KPI", a member of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Mikhail Zgurovsky at the opening ceremony. – Thus, the Center is established to prepare such experts and work out the best technology".

Recently NTUU "KPI" was hosting the regular annual General Meeting of Members of the Association of Ukrainian Research and Academic Network "uranium", which summed up its activities over the past year and outlined plans for the coming years.

On the 18th June, by representatives of the Tokyo University of Agriculture Technology (Japan) attended NTU "KPI" - Professor Masao Nagai and Associate Professor Ponhsatorn Raksincharonsak. They visited the Science and Technical Library and Ukraine-Japan Center of NTU "KPI", made a tour along the alley of monuments to famous scientists and designers whose creative activity began in KPI or was connected with it and familiarized themselves with the State Polytechnic Museum at NTU "KPI". After a general acquaintance with University guests met with his leadership and discuss trends and ways to expand cooperation.

The meeting was attended by First Vice Rector of NTU KPI Yuriy Yakymenko, Vice Rector of National Technical University of Ukraine Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, Executive Manager of International Relations Division, Corresponding Member of NAS of Ukraine Sergey Sidorenko, Deputy Chief of International Relations Division Sergei Shukayev, director of the Ukraine-Japan Center of NTU" KPI "Midzutani Osama and his deputy, Eugene Ogorodnik, and representatives of Mechanical Engineering Institute of NTU "KPI".

03.06.2013 The regular meeting of the Academic Board of the university took place on 3 June 2013. It began with the ceremonial part during which Ihor Leonardovych Pioro was presented with the mantle, the diploma and the badge of The Honorary Doctor of NTUU "KPI". Yurii Ivanovych Yakymenko, Deputy Chairman of the Board and First Pro-Rector, introduced the visitor and invited him to read a brief lecture on the current state of the global energetics and its prospects. In his report Ihor Leonardovych compared the volume of generation and use of electricity in different countries of the world (Ukraine, Russia, USA, Italy etc.).

3 June at the meeting of the Academic Council the first pro-rector of the University of NAS of Ukraine Yuriy Yakymenko handed a diploma, gown and memorable sign of Honorary Doctor of NTUU "KPI" to Igor Leonardovich Pioro who is a Professor of the Faculty of Energy Systems and Nuclear Science of t

This academical rating of Ukrainian universities is 8-time presented at the end of educational year by the Centre of international projects "Євроосвіта".

On May, 30, 2013 XXXIII NTUU “KPI” employees trade union accounting conference took place at the convention room of the Academic Council Hall. M.Z. Zgurovsky, the rector of KPI, and O.M. Yatsun, the head of the Kyiv municipal organization of education, academic and research workers of Ukraine participated in the conference. The account of the trade union head, Molchanov V.I., on the functioning of NTUU “KPI” employees trade union for the period from March, 2010 to May, 2013 (the summary of the account is given on page 2) was presented at the conference as well as the trade union checkup commission information given by the head of the trade union checkup commission Yurchuk V.P. H.M. Kulyk, the head of the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics trade union stressed the need of lecturers evaluation rating system optimization drawing attention to the index part used while rating calculation for Bachelor’s and Master’s (Specialist’s) students. Moreover, Hanna Mykoaivna yet again pointed out the necessity to organize rooms for the lecturers of general departments in the KPI academic buildings.

On May 29th in the hall of the Council of NTUU "KPI" were celebrations to mark the 20th anniversary of the Department of Telecommunications and the 10th anniversary of its formation on the basis of educational institute of telecommunication systems NTUU "KPI".

The president, Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Professor Michael Zakharovych Zgurovsky opened the meeting, which united all the generations of students, faculty and staff of ITS, as well as representatives of government, the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, colleagues from other universities and business partners.