Kateryna Yushchenko Visits the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute National Technical University
25 March 2008 15:32
March 25, 2008, Head of the Supervisory Board of the Ukraine 3000 International Charitable Foundation Kateryna Yushchenko visited the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute National Technical University of Ukraine.
Accompanied by KPI NTUU Rector Mykhaylo Zhurovsky, Mrs. Yushchenko visited the university’s Scientific and Technical Library and Ukrainian-Japanese Center operating at the library.Later Mrs. Kateryna visited the KPI Palace of Culture and the Arts, where she attended the Synytsia Art Gallery. Mrs. Yushchenko also visited the State Politechnic Museum of Ukraine at the KPI NTUU.
In addition, Mrs. Kateryna visited the Kyiv Polytechnic Science Park, where she familiartized herself with the work of the Super Computer Calculations Center and the Ukrainian Office of the Global Data Center. The staff of the Science Park made short presentations for the guest, dedicated to the major areas of a technopolis work. Later Mrs. Yushchenko visited the Institute of Informational Technologies in Education.
Mrs. Kateryna also met with KPI NTUU administration and faculty members.
The Kyiv Polytechnic Institute National Technical University of Ukraine was founded in 1898. At present, it has 19 educational faculties, 10 education and research institutes, 13 scientific and research institutes, and 14 research centers, with 44 academicians and corresponding members of the Academy of Sciences and around 2500 professors and professor’s assistants working at them, and 41,700 students including 1,500 foreigners from over 50 countries, and 500 postgraduate students, 80 of them being foreign citizens. The university has a branch in Slavutych.
The Denysenko Scientific and Technical Library at the KPI NTUU, founded simultaneously with the university, is one of Ukraine’s best. Its funds contain around 3 millions publications, 500,000 of them being Ukrainian and foreign journals. The collection embraces virtually every branch of technology, natural sciences, economy, etc. The library services 44,000 readers.
The Ukrainian-Japanese Center, a project by the Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA), was founded in May 2006 on the basis of the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute National Technical University of Ukraine. Its goal is developing mutual understanding and cooperation between Ukraine and Japan in the social, economic, academic, and cultural fields. The Center, open to all comers, runs the Japanese language and Japanese art courses, has a library, and works on the cooperation with the academia, industrial sector, and governmental structures.
The State Polytechnic Museum at the KPI NTUU, founded in 1995, is an independent branch of the University’s research sector. The museum has 9 rooms, displaying an exposition on KPI history and 13 fields of technology, narrating on the situation in science and technology in Ukraine and abroad.
The Kyiv Polytechnic Science Park is aimed at intensifying the elaboration and implementation of high-tech products on both the internal and foreign markets, along with combining education, science, and industry to speed up the innovative development of Ukraine’s economy. The Super Computer Calculations Center and the Ukrainian Office of the Global Data Center were unveiled in November 2006 by President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko.
The Institute for Informational Technologies in Education was created on the basis of KPI NTUU in 2000. Its major task is creating a concept of distance education in Ukraine, in part, working out draft regulatory base for and testing methods of distance learning, working out mechanisms for including electronic means and telecommunications into its implementation, synchronizing Ukrainian colleges’ actions in this field, and training specialists for the distance learning.
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