Project ‘NAWA Solidarity with Ukraine’ with Warsaw University of Technology

The conference “WUT for Ukraine – Insights from NAWA Projects” took place in Warsaw. It marked the completion of a two-year project organized and implemented by the Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute in collaboration with the Warsaw University of Technology (Politechnika Warszawska) and partners from the ENHANCE alliance. The project was funded and supported by the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange (NAWA) under the Solidarity with Ukraine programme.

The project lasted from 2023 to 2024, and was attended by 132 participants from our university. The most active departments were the Institute of Energy Saving and Energy Management, the Institute of Aerospace Technologies, the Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, the Institute of Nuclear and Heat Power, the Faculty of Linguistics, the Faculty of Instrumentation Engineering, the Faculty of Management and Marketing, the Institute of Materials Science and Welding, the Faculty of Electronics. The representatives of this institutes and faculties had the opportunity to present the Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute at the final conference of the project and share their experience of its implementation. First Vice-Rector Mykhailo Bezuhlyi led the university delegation/

Conferences, hackathons, summer and winter schools and staff training sessions – each of the 21 events organised during the project not only became a source of inspiration and an incentive for students, postgraduates, researchers and academic staff to start or continue collaborating but also contributed to intensifying collaboration between all ENHANCE partner universities.

The results of the project will contribute to:

• further internationalisation of engineering specialities and training of future specialists as high-level professionals and emotionally mature individuals;
• development of foreign language communication competence of future engineers, including the search for innovative solutions to optimise the foreign language educational process at partner universities, as well as
• the promotion of the Ukrainian language and culture in the world.

We are grateful to our foreign partners for the high recognition of our joint efforts and support of multidimensional initiatives aimed at strengthening and restoring Ukraine!