University news

Recently, the Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute welcomed a distinguished guest — Kiril Petkov, former Prime Minister of the Republic of Bulgaria, as well as a politician, economist and entrepreneur.

📜A quarter of a century ago, KPI initiated the separation of biotechnology as a field of training for domestic specialists and was one of the first in Ukraine to begin teaching students in all major biotechnology specializations. Today, the FBT is a place where science becomes technology and works for bioenergy and environmental safety, developing domestic biopharmacy and bioengineering in our country.

A ceremony was held to honor the nominees and winners of the student essay contest “Startup Diplomacy: Ukraine and Azerbaijan in Building Innovation Partnership,” organized with the support of the 🇦🇿 Embassy of the Republic of Azerbaijan in Ukraine.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) provided KPI with its second grant since the start of the full-scale war. In 2022, the university received its first emergency grant, which allowed it to quickly migrate its infrastructure to a cloud environment. At that time, digital services were operating in a partner environment provided by EPAM. Later, the university completely switched to its own AWS account.

Kyiv Polytechnic Institute hosted the All-Ukrainian Scientific and Practical Conference “Historical Model of the UN” in the format of an educational role-playing game.

🔵 Kyiv Polytechnic Institute and Kyiv Military Hub are starting systematic cooperation in the field of veteran support.

🤝 The partnership covers:

Igor Sikorsky KPI became the venue and an active participant in the “Safety Distance” event, which focused on the use of remote systems for detecting explosive objects in mine action. Such technologies minimize risks to people and speed up the survey of territories.

The university hosted a meeting with representatives of the Ukrainian Mine Action Center and the non-profit organization Copenhagen Hazard Mapping (🇩🇰 Kingdom of Denmark).

At the Kyiv International Forum on Cybersilience 2026, Serhii Konyushok, Deputy Head of the Institute (for Scientific Work) at the Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute’s Institute of Cyber Security and Information Systems (ISZZI) outlined the key challenges in training personnel for the cybersecurity sector and presented practical approaches used by the Institute.

Today marks the fourth anniversary of the start of the full-scale Russian invasion. We remember February 24, 2022, and those thanks to whom Ukraine stood firm then and continues the fight today.