Sikorsky Challenge

The 10th Anniversary International Festival of Innovative Projects “Sikorsky Challenge 2021” will take place from August 17 through August 20, 2021, at Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute.

Last autumn, the team of the Institute of Aerospace Technologies of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute  for the second time took part in the competition of the local stage of the International Space Hackathon Space Apps Challenge, held in different countries with the support of the US Natio

Leone Peter Correia da Silva Andrade, President of the Manufacturing and Technology Integrated Campus, expressed hope that Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute scientists would help solve the problem of digital communication of oil wells.

In November 2020 as part of the IX Festival of Innovative Projects Sikorsky Challenge 2020 the national stage of the International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) 2021 took place.

The ninth festival of innovative projects at Kyiv Polytechnic was held on-line: most of the participants from different countries and regions of Ukraine presented the developments remotely in the form of video.

The Sikorsky Challenge environment is expanding every year not only nationally but also globally. Today, the competition is supported by 28 regular investors and sponsors from six countries, including the United States, China, Israel, Poland and Azerbaijan.

The work of the Festival of Innovation continues. During the next discussion panel they talked about the development of the regional network of innovation environment Sikorsky Challenge. Today there are already 13 clusters in Ukraine and 5 in other countries.

As part of the Sikorsky Challenge Festival of Innovative Projects, a panel discussion on the development of technologies in medical engineering took place at Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute.

The Sikorsky Challenge Festival is one of the most important annual events in the field of innovation in Ukraine. This is the ninth time it has been held at Kyiv Polytechnic this year. 56 unique projects from all over the country reached the finals.

Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute was visited by First Deputy Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine Mykola Kyzym and his assistants.