KPI winners of essay contest receive awards

An awards ceremony was held at the Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute (KPI) to recognise the nominees and winners of the student essay contest “Startup Diplomacy: Ukraine and Azerbaijan in Building Innovation Partnership,” organised under the auspices of the Embassy of the Republic of Azerbaijan in Ukraine.

In their essays, Kyiv Polytechnic students explored the interaction of diplomacy, technologies and innovations in nation’s development, the protection of national interests and the strengthening of international partnerships.

Seymur Gurban oglu Mardaliyev, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Azerbaijan to Ukraine, personally congratulated the contestants and presented them awards.

And the winners are: Hanna Tkachenko, student at the Kyiv Polytechnic’s Faculty of Informatics and Computer Engineering, who took first place in the contest; Ivan Pasko of the Institute of Special Communications and Information Protection, placed second; and third place went to Mariia Miniailova of the Faculty of Sociology and Law (FSL).

Among the nominees were FSL students Kornii Belov, Dariia Khalilova, Anna Pankova and Artemii Bohachev; as well as Ramiz Dzhabralidze and Matvii Osadchuk of the Faculty of Management and Marketing.