Sergii Sydorenko
Doctor of Physics and Mathematics, Full Professor, Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Vice-Rector for International Relations of the National Technical University of Ukraine ‘Ihor Sikorskyi Kyiv Polytechnic Institute’
DOI: 10.37837/2707-7683-2023-45
Abstract. The article addresses the international affairs of the National Technical University of Ukraine ‘Ihor Sikorskyi Kyiv Polytechnic Institute’ (KPI) amidst martial law.
The scope and forms of the KPI’s international engagement changed when Ukraine was granted the candidate status for the European Union membership, and the international community recognised that our country is in the vanguard of the struggle for the values of civilisation.
The author of the article emphasises the respect for Ukraine demonstrated not only at high-level meetings, where words of solidarity with Ukraine were spoken, but also in cooperation agreements with universities of Finland, Germany, Slovenia, the UK, the US, and the polytechnic universities of Bucharest, Poznań, and Warsaw.
At a time of limited budgetary funding, foreign sources of financial support become virtually the only means by which the University can develop its educational, scientific, and research facilities and stimulate its staff. And for the faculties, institutes, and academic departments, they ensure confidence in the ability to compete for applicants, the allocation of financial resources, the influence on the science and education policy within particular branches of knowledge, the content of educational programmes, and the capacity for preserving scientific and pedagogical schools.
The KPI has experienced positive quantitative and qualitative changes in its project and grant activities as the Ukrainian academic environment began to gradually bridge the mental gap with Europe.
Integration into the European education and research area does not only mean a potential increase in the number of education and science projects and financing, which all departments and all academic staff of KPI should experience. At the same time, it is also a civilizational change that affects all aspects of the University’s activities. Thus, joining the family of European universities is an important task for the international activities of NTUU KPI in the coming years.
Keywords: Ihor Sikorskyi Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, Europe, integration, universities alliances, educational and research area, international affairs, civilizational change.