Roman Pedan, PhD Student at the Institute of Materials Science and Welding: "Working with Something New Is Always Interesting"

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).

Vladyslav Korin strives to explore, create, and change the world

“We train highly qualified specialists in the field of IT technologies and digital solutions for the energy sector, ecology, medicine, and the economy,” states the website of the Department of Digital Technologies in Energy (DTE) at the Institute of IATE. The quality of the students’ training is evidenced, in particular, by their academic and research achievements.

Andriy Makarchuk: “Comprehensive communication always yields results”

At the end of last year, the Ministry of Education and Science issued an order on the awarding of the President of Ukraine’s academic scholarships to graduate students for the 2025/2026 academic year. These scholarships will be awarded to candidates with outstanding scientific or academic achievements as an incentive for their work and motivation to achieve high results. Among the recipients is Andriy Makarchuk, an assistant professor in the Department of Software Engineering in Energy at the Institute of IATE.

KPI freshmen are winners of the President of Ukraine scholarship

Every year 270 laureates of the President of Ukraine scholarship - schoolchildren and students - receive financial rewards for their scientific achievements. Among them are 150 winners of the All-Ukrainian Student Olympiads in basic academic subjects and 120 winners of the All-Ukrainian Competition for the Defense of Research Papers by Students of the Junior Academy of Sciences.

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