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🤝 Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute hosted a meeting with representatives of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), Paul Heslop, Senior Mine Action Adviser at the United Nations Resident Coordinator's Office in Ukraine, as well as representatives of the international organizations PCM and MAT Kosovo (Kosovo Mine Action Training Centre).

The Trade Union Committee of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, with the support of the Ukrainian-Japanese Center, organized the Japanese Summer School for Children for the second time. The cultural program was designed to introduce participants to Japanese culture, language, traditions, and arts.

🎥 For the third time since the beginning of Russia's full-scale invasion, the Kyoto International Choir organized a musical telebridge on Kyiv Day between the two sister cities as a gesture of support for the people of Kyiv and solidarity with Ukraine.

🇯🇵 🇺🇦 The Ukrainian-Japanese Center at Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute hosted the qualifying round of the 2026 Japanese Ambassador’s Cup Open Shogi Tournament—an ancient Japanese intellectual game that combines logic, strategic thinking, and philosophy.

📓 The presentation of the manga “The Flutter of a Butterfly’s Wings” is dedicated to all Ukrainians who are holding on and resisting under the reality of occupation and, of course, to the manga’s hero—political prisoner, artist, and activist Bohdan Ziza.

🇯🇵🇺🇦📃A memorandum of cooperation with a Japanese company that develops platforms for online courses ensures the development, implementation, and support of solutions for online learning, opening up new opportunities in the digital education sector.

Andriy Shysholin, Vice Rector for International Relations at Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute (KPI); Oksana Vovk, Director of the Educational and Scientific Institute of Energy Conservation and Energy Management at KPI; and Kateryna Lugovska, Director of the Ukrainian-Japanese Center at KPI, met on December 16 with Mykhailo Turyanytsia, a communications specialist at the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS), Mykhailo Turyanytsia, and a journalist from the Kyodo News Agency, Narumi Tateda (Japan).

The Ukrainian-Japanese Center at Igor Sikorsky KPI hosted the opening of the ceramics exhibition “Five Bowls.”
This is one of the events within the framework of the winter festival of Japanese culture Toji, supported by the Embassy of Japan in Ukraine.

An evening of gratitude, strength, and music. The Igor Sikorsky KPI Center for Culture and Arts hosted a charity concert by Japanese virtuoso pianist Tempei Nakamura, a musician who is visiting Ukraine and our university for the third time during the war.