The final scientific conference of All-Ukrainian Contest of student research papers “Computer science, computer engineering and automation” was held at Vinnytsia National Technical University, on March 24 – 26   The total number of papers was 123 works from 50 universities of Ukraine. Highly professional Contest Committee ‒ exclusively PhDs (Engineering Sciences), professors, associate professors and experienced candidates of Engineering Sciences ‒ thoroughly and impartially examined the contestants’ papers.   Then at the second crucial stage of this intelligent scientific Contest 39 students from 23 universities presented their papers at the final scientific conference. The contestants along with their supervisors were invited to VNTU where they had to prove the scientific usefulness and perfection of their projects to the Contest Committee and their young colleagues.   By the way, the contestants presented 20 papers the results of which have been patented.

  Only 10 projects among more than 400 ones got to the final of the Ukrainian contest of start-up projects of IT-students “IT-Eureka! Ukraine”. There are 4 VNTU teams among these 10! And what is more, each became the winner of the final in various nominations!   The final of the Ukrainian contest of start-up projects of IT-students “IT-Eureka! Ukraine” was held in Odesa on March 20, 2015. Only 10 projects (5 in the “innovatory idea” nomination and 5 in the “innovative solution” nomination) among more than 400 ones got to the final.   The fact that 4 teams from the Faculty of informational technologies and computer engineering of Vinnytsia National Technical University are among the finalists is a great achievement of the students and their coaches! So, a large team of VNTU (15 students and 3 mentors — the teachers of the Software Department) went to Odessa to the Final.   The level of the Contest was extremely high. Students prepared and defended their projects in English.

  Scholarship 1500 UAH per month for six months is a prize to students of VNTU ‒ the winners of the Contest supported by “Delphi”   Information portal “My Vinnytsia”   IT-company “Delphi” in cooperation with the Faculty of Computer Systems and Automation and the Faculty of Information Technologies and Computer Engineering held Programming and IT-technologies Contest in Vinnytsia National Technical University   “Delphi” (www.udelphi.com) has been engaged in the development and testing of various software for a number of years.  Among its partners are global leaders that create systems of speech recognition, develop technologies of recording and analysis of language as well as mobile and console software.   “Delphi” is known for its fruitful long-term cooperation with VNTU. The company organizes a variety of activities for students including supplementary lectures in IT, practical classes for undergraduates and regular tours to the company.

  A remote research radio engineering contest will be held for the first time on the initiative of the Radio Engineering Department of VNTU and will be supported by the Department of Education and Science of Vinnytsia Region State Administration   This contest is primarily relevant for this year's graduates of vocational and secondary schools as well as higher institutions of the І-ІІ accreditation levels of Vinnytsia region.   The deadline for responses is March 31, 2015.   Result announcement will be held on April 09, 2015 during this year's closing ceremony of the final stage of the all-Ukrainian Student Contest in Radio Engineering (www.vsort.org.ua ). The winners will be awarded with diplomas and valuable gifts.   Registration of participants is available on:  fb.com/radiotechnical.olympiad or vk.com/radiotechnical.olympiad   Official e-mail of the contest is rt.olymp@gmail.

  Smart Club Community “Bayun” celebrated the anniversary   Details on the website of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine   Information portal “My Vinnytsia”   The history of intellectual game movement in our University started in the early 90s of the last century. Smart Club Community “Bayun” originated from individual interests and sporadic forms of intellectual game “What? Where? When?” in then VSTU in January, 1995.   The name of the Club has its roots in ancient Slavic mythology according to which the God Veles was not only the saint patron of cattle breeding and wealth but also the God of knowledge and wisdom. He has got two mythological embodiments — bird Gamayun and cat Bayun. Both words “gamayunyty” and “bayunyty” mean to sing or to tell i.e., to bring people the information, to give knowledge, and this is one of the aims of the Club.

  Attache for university and scientific cooperation of the Embassy of France in Ukraine Gilles Mametz and coordinator of the program Campus France in Ukraine Olha Dorosh visited VNTU   Details on the website of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine   The foreign guests presented our students grant and scholarship programs and other opportunities for interuniversity communication. They assured that they are very interested in cooperation with our university.   Instead of making a framework agreement it was offered to cooperate immediately.   Three areas were marked:   scholarship exchange programmes Erasmus Mundus supported by France for students of VNTU;   implementation of the program of academic mobility “Double Diploma” between VNTU and technical universities in France;   scientific cooperation at the level “Professor-Professor” between teachers of French universities and VNTU working in the same field.   VNTU has already cooperated with the French Republic.

  20-year-old Oksana Puhach, a third-year student of management faculty of our university became the titled belle of Vinnytsia. The young rosebud will represent our city at the national beauty contest On the first day of spring in Vinnytsia State Academic Music and Drama Theatre  named after Mykola Sadovskyi the most beautiful girl of the regional center was chosen among 16 finalists of the contest “Miss Vinnytsia 2015”.   20-year-old Oksana Puhach, a third-year student of management faculty (group MOF-12) of our university, successfully withstood all contest tests, fascinated the jury and the auditorium with her young perfection and optimism  and won the Winner Crown from the jewelry company “Diadema”.   Oksana is a future financier but right now she has already been working in a modeling agency.   In addition to the exclusive crown, jewelry and fur, Oksana has got as a gift a trip to Greece or Turkey.   Other contestants have also got presents.

  Training of such specialists in VNTU will focus on meeting the production needs of the leading IT-companies in the region – Win Interactive, Delphi, Playtika, “Spilna Sprava”, which are headed and staffed mainly by students of the Institute of Automatics, Electronics and Computer Control Systems. In the same direction other universities in the region train computer science teachers for school Vinnytsia National Technical University Faculty of Computer Systems and Automation Department of Automation and Information Measuring Devices   Scientific and pedagogical potential of the Institute of Automatics, Electronics and Computer Control Systems has every reason to get a license for training specialists in 6.040302 – “Computer Science”, which belongs to the area of expertise 0403 – “System Sciences and Cybernetics” applied by the educational activity of VNTU for the first time.

  Four years running the Science Student and Postgraduates Association of Vinnytsia National Technical University has been holding a competition of scientific and technical ideas on the direction of " Energy Saving "   Details on the website of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine       The Nominating Committee included:   Pro-Rector of scientific work, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor Serhii Pavlov; Research Supervisor of the Science Student and Postgraduates Association of VNTU, Candidate of Technical Sciences, Associate Professor Leonid Koval; Head of the Scientific and Research Department of VNTU, Candidate of Technical Sciences, Associate Professor Volodymyr Bohachuk; Honorary Chairman of the Science Student and Postgraduates Association of VNTU, Postgraduate Valerii Hraniak; Chairman of the Science Student and Postgraduates Association of VNTU, Postgraduate Kseniia Navrotska (Institute of Radio Engineering, Telecommunication and Electronic Instrument Engineering).

  In the new web rankings (January 2015) Vinnytsia National Technical University is the 24th. Vinnytsia National Agrarian University is the 82nd. Vinnytsia State Pedagogical University is the132nd and Vinnytsia National Medical University is the 138th   Webometrics Ranking of World's Universities published the ranking of world universities in terms of their presence in the network in January 2015.   While composing Webometrics Ranking of World's Universities the developers take into consideration the number of site pages of higher educational institution indexed by search engines, external links to it, the citation of the resource as well as the number of files uploaded to the site. In other words, content and the information component of the web-site of an educational institution is estimated, according to  Освіта.ua .   The developers point out that attendance indicators of sites and their design are not taken into account while composing the rating.