Vitalii Ishchenko, Head of the Department of Ecology and Environmental Safety of Vinnytsia National Technical University, and Roman Petruk, Associate Professor of the same Department, visited Liverpool John Moores University (United Kingdom) according to the Agreement between VNTU and the British Council in Ukraine         Vitalii Ishchenko and Roman Petruk presented VNTU and the materials of researches of the Department of Ecology and Environmental Safety to professors, post-graduate students and students of Liverpool John Moores University. The presented materials caused an active discussion.   A strategy of collaboration between the universities has also been elaborated. It includes two major opportunities.   The first one is “Higher education financing (academic mobility)”, the program Erasmus+.

  The implementation of the project IT-SCOUTS will prepare the youth to study technical professions   Education portal PedPRESA  

  A new youth scout technical movement IT-SCOUTS was represented at the festivities in Vinnytsia National Technical University The head of the University, PhD, Professor Volodymyr Hrabko emphasized that the implementation of the project IT-SCOUTS would prepare the youth to study technical professions.   Kostiantyn Koval, the head of the Department of Training and Production Integration, Candidate of Technical Sciences, Associate Professor, reported on the launch of IT- SCOUTS.   This year the celebration of the University Day has been held for the first time in the square in front of the main academic building but  normally it was held in the Assembly Hall.   For two consecutive years the KVN team of VNTU has become champions of Vinnytsia KVN (Club of the Cheerful and Smart). In 2015 — the team “V.I.N.S. – Vam I Ne Snylosia” (You Can Hardly Dream of), in 2016 — the team “Everything will be okay”.   So, the University wits generously made the University community merry  — they had to laugh at themselves.

  September 28-30 the III international professional exhibition “Education in Ukraine. Education abroad” was held in the Column Hall of Kyiv City State administration       Its slogan is “Study in Ukraine”.   Vinnytsia National Technical University received the Grand Prix-2016 in the competitive ranking nomination “For the outstanding victories in national and international contests and Olympiads”.   This grandiose educational event was held under the auspices of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine and National Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine.

  On September 28, a memorial plaque to Yurii Babko, a former student, the hero of the ATO, was open on the building of the Faculty of Machine Building and Transport of Vinnytsia National Technical University   Education portal PedPRESA   This is already the second memorial plaque opened at VNTU to the student who died in the ATO. Volodymyr Mukha, a twenty-year-old student of the third year of study of the Faculty of Power Engineering and Electromechanics was immortalized in a granite plaque on the Faculty building. The “Aidar” soldier was killed by a sniper bullet.   “For our University it’s more typically to hold entertainment or intellectual competitions. But we have already opened a memorial plaque to a student who died defending his homeland for the second time” — addressed the participants of the sorrowful action Volodymyr Hrabko, Rector of VNTU, PhD, Professor.   “Hearts ache with pain. We should not bury our children and open memorial plaques to them.

  On September 28, the third international scientific conference “Knowledge. Education. Enlightenment-2016” started  at Vinnytsia National Technical University   It is held under the auspices of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine. In addition to VNTU, organizers are the New University of Lisbon (Portugal), Lublin University of Technology (Poland), the Synergetic society of Ukraine (Vinnytsia division).   Volodymyr Hrabko, Rector of VNTU, PhD,  Professor, opened a plenary session with welcoming speech:   “I am sure that in this hall there are enthusiasts who really keep education and their main task is to increase the level of education in our State.”   Viktor Petrushenko, Head of the Department of Philosophy of “Lviv Polytechnic”, PhD, Professor, said that this conference is the first for many participants in the current academic year. So, it's a great start and an opportunity for associates to share ideas and gain creative energy.

  On September 28, at 14.00 a memorial plaque to Yurii Babko, a former student of the Faculty of Machine Building and Transport, the hero of the ATO, was open at Vinnytsia National Technical University   The young man died on July 14, 2015 in Luhansk region near the village Syze checking the reliability of the mine fortifications near the Ukrainian-Russian border. Along with him four soldier-fellows were killed.   Yurii was only 26 years old. He was a volunteer in the army, he served as a senior soldier and a sapper.   Yurii Babko was posthumously awarded the Order of Bohdan Khmelnytskyi of the III degree by the Presidential Decree No. 330/2016 of  August 11, 2016 “for personal courage and professionalism found in defending State sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine, fidelity to the military oath”.   The idea and organization of opening the memorial plaque to the hero belongs to Leonid Polishchuk, Ph.D., Professor of VNTU.

  Companies Intel, IBM, and Cisco Systems have already been interested in EcoCitizens project, whose participants are the students of VNTU Oleh Sydoruk, Andrii Shevchuk and Andrii Lavrov     On September 16, the participants of the First National Contest of IT-projects on e-democracy Egap Challenge were awarded at the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.   The competition is one of the initiatives of the program “Electronic government for the accountability of authorities and participation of society”, which is implemented by the Foundation “Eastern Europe”, “Innovabridge”, State Agency on e-Government, and partners with the support of the Swiss Confederation.

  More than a thousand freshmen of Vinnytsia National Technical University had a fateful event in their life. The famous Ukrainian University solemnly accepted them as its students   Volodymyr Hrabko, Rector of VNTU, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor started the celebrations:   "Since now you, freshmen, will bring new wins of national and international level to our University. Now more than ever, our nation needs highly intellectual staff. Our University has the potential to educate you accordingly these needs. This year we begin to train specialists who will design shooting arms. This is a required profession for strengthening the defense of our country.

  A scheduled meeting of the participants of the international educational project ERASMUS+ Capacity Building in the field of Higher Education "Creating a modern master's degree programs in the field of information systems" (MASTIS), 561592-EPP-1-2015-1-FR-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP was held at the University LUISS GuidoCarli – Libera University  Internazionale degli Studi Sociali (Rome, Italy).   The aim of the event is the methodological definition of core competencies and requirements for future international training programs for masters and PhD in information systems that should be developed and implemented in the educational process by the universities-partners of the project MASTIS. At this meeting our University was represented by the Dean of the Faculty of Computer Systems and Automation, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor Oleh Bisikalo and the Head of the Department of Computer System Control, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, Volodymyr Dubovoi.