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In late fall, as part of agreements with the “Ukraine Energy Autark” association aimed at promoting innovative research projects and their implementation to achieve Ukraine’s energy self-sufficiency, Olga Vlasenko, senior lecturer at the Institute of IATE at the Faculty of Energy and Environmental Engineering, and Dina Koltysheva, assistant at the Department of Bioenergy, Bioinformatics and Ecobiotechnology at the FBT Dina Koltysheva, successfully completed an internship in Germany on the topic “Biogas and Energy Biomass Utilization” (pictured).

Several teams from Kyiv Polytechnic University were among the leaders in the All-Ukrainian women's CTF competition SHE DEFENDS: CYBER & OSINT. The tournament aims to develop women's practical skills in cybersecurity and OSINT and to strengthen the cyber resilience of the national security and defense sector.

A cooperation agreement signed between Igor Sikorsky KPI and Ukrainian engineering and product company Dwarf Engineering in the field of DefTech opens up new educational opportunities for the university, such as the launch of a new interdisciplinary educational program, “Computer Vision for Robots.”

“A year of stability and strategic transformation” — this was the title given by Igor Sikorsky KPI Rector Anatoliy Melnichenko to his report at the Igor Sikorsky KPI Staff Conference. The conference was held on January 26, 2026, in the University Academic Council Hall.

Employees of the Department of Property and Social Affairs created another Point of Invincibility in the first building of the Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute. From now on, polytechnicians can study, teach and work freely during power outages.

Our university has once again confirmed its position in the international academic space according to the results of the Times Higher Education World University Rankings by Subject 2026. KPI not only retained its place in 4 key out of 11 subject areas, but also entered the ranking in the field of Social Sciences for the first time.

A joint educational project between the Boris Paton State Polytechnic Museum and Antonina Berezovenko, an associate professor in the Department of Ukrainian Language, Literature, and Culture at Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, was dedicated to the development and application of museum pedagogy methods during the course "Culture of Oral Professional Speech (Rhetoric)“ by first-year students of the Institute of IPSA, who are majoring in ”Artificial Intelligence."

Yuriy Gogotsi, a member of the supervisory board of Igor Sikorsky KPI and a professor at Drexel University, has become a key figure in the creation of a new generation of stretchable OLED displays. He is one of the discoverers of MXenes, the materials that form the basis of this breakthrough technology, and led a research team from Drexel University in the United States and Seoul National University.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky presented diplomas and honorary badges of the Boris Paton National Prize of Ukraine to scientists of the Department of High-Temperature Materials and Powder Metallurgy of the E.O. Paton Institute for Materials Science and Welding.

Kyiv Polytechnic took part in the UK–Ukraine 100 Year Partnership Forum, dedicated to the anniversary of the signing of the Agreement on Centennial Partnership between Ukraine and Great Britain, which defines the long-term vector of development and restoration of our country.