On September 21, 2013 the KPI held the first event in the framework of unusual research project "Scientific Fun - Scientific picnics in Ukraine ." The volunteers from KPI students and post-graduates Scientific Society actively participated in the organization and conducting of the event.
Last year's visit of our university's deligation to the Algerian National Democratic Republic, during which the agreement on cooperation was signed, was the beginning of business contacts between our University and the University of Saad Dahlab, Blida.
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".
On the 20th of June the Head of the Ukrainian-Japanese centre at the NTUU “KPI” Osamu Midzutani presented Institute of Energy Saving and Energy Marketing at the NTUU “KPI” with the equipment for energy audit for its use in scientific researches and educational process.
‘Today we are giving KPI the equipment, the operation of which was demonstrated by the participants of the workshop which was held from 12th to 14th of June. We consulted Japanese experts about whom out of the participants of this workshop better to give it and decided unanimously that this equipment should be presented to the Institute of Energy Saving and Energy Marketing at the NTUU “KPI”,’ stressed the head of the Ukrainian-Japanese centre at the NTUU “KPI” Osamu Midzutani. ’We have collaborated a lot with its first director Arthur Prahovnyk, we hold several workshops for experts in this field and I am sure that here it will be of the utmost use to prepare specialists for energy sector in Ukraine.’
The seminar "The Synergy of IT- Education and IT- Industry" was held on May, 24 at the premises of NTUU "KPI". The participants discussed the preparation of specialists for the sphere of information technologies and the harmonization of curricula to the requirements and needs of the market .
This year during February and March the students of the Faculty of Heat and Power Energy had an opportunity to listen to lectures and personally communicate with leading experts in their field, who work at universities in Western Europe and the USA.
The opening ceremony of the Ukrainian-Norvegian remote training centre took place on April 24 at the Faculty of Chemical Technology of the National Technical University of Ukraine “Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”.
On the 24th of April the scientific and technical centre, established with the assistance and direct involvement of the company “ABB in Ukraine”, was formally opened at the Faculty of Electric Power Engineering and Automatics.
April 22, 2013 National Technical University of Ukraine "Kyiv Polytechnic Institute" was visited by President of Winnipeg University (Canada), Professor Lloyd Axworthy.
The supervisor of IEE thermomolecular energetic laboratory, professor V.A. Eroshenko has recently been to Katowice (Poland) together with his postgraduate student Oleksiy Evtushenko. He delivered lectures there with their total amount of 12 hours.
