Volunteering

The State Polytechnic Museum named after Borys Paton at Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute recently opened the photo exhibition Rights in Our Hands. The exhibition was inaugurated to mark Ukrainian Volunteer Day on March 14. The exhibition was organized by Amnesty International Ukraine in partnership with the State Polytechnic Museum named after Borys Paton at Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute and the University's Veteran Development Center. Notably, the Museum is the exhibition's second venue. It was first presented in Washington, D.C., in February this year.

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. 

This Saturday, the student union of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute together with colleagues from the Azov State Technical University worked actively and jointly produced

📌 120 elongated antennas for walkie-talkies;

📌 30 car antennas;

350 trench candles;

Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute currently has 6 volunteers - from the USA, Canada, Germany, Japan and Poland. They teach at the Institute of MMI, FSP, FL, PBF, FMM, FEA.

People who have faced traumatic events - witnessed or participated in war, terrorist attacks, natural disasters, or violence - may have mental health problems. According to the World Health Organization, every fifth person who has had a traumatic experience needs psychological rehabilitation. One of the most effective methods of working with trauma is art therapy.

On the occasion of the International Volunteer Day, students, teachers, staff and graduates of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute were making the necessary equipment for our soldiers all day long.

The Knowledge Square of the Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute is bathed in the hot May sun. There's a long line of medical vehicles and vehicles for evacuating the wounded from the battlefield.

Interview with a KPI graduate who lives in Poland and helps Ukraine

- Another shipment of camouflage nets has been sent to Ukraine. How many is this one?

The Kyiv Polytechnic Charitable Foundation for Support of the Armed Forces, headed by Ihor Hryshko, Director of the Institute of MMI, was founded by the Academic Council of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute on October 14, 2022. A year has passed.

Residents of the villages affected by the Russian explosion of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station expressed their gratitude to the administration, teachers, staff and students of the Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute for the assistance provided.