• Student olympiads
• Competitions of student scientific works
• Scientific conferences
• Participation in international projects, grants, and startup activities

Student olympiads

The department actively organizes the first stage (round) of the All-Ukrainian Student Olympiads in various courses and fields of study. Winners of the first round participate in the second round of the All-Ukrainian Student Olympiads, which are held in various cities across Ukraine.
In addition:
– In 2005–2007, the venue for the second round of the All-Ukrainian Student Olympiad in the field of “Human Life and Activity Safety” was NTU “KhPI,” and the organizer was the Department of “Occupational Safety and Environmental Protection.”
– On September 19–28, 2008, the First International Student Olympiad in the academic discipline “Life Safety” was held for the first time at NTU “KhPI” under the auspices of our department, with students from 8 higher education institutions in 3 countries (Ukraine, Slovakia, and Poland) participating.

Student achievements in academic competitions by year:

– 2025 – until today
– 2021 – 2024
– 2015 – 2020

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Competitions of student scientific works

Students actively participate in the annual All-Ukrainian competition of student research papers in various fields of study and specializations, including:
– Civil Safety (Occupational Safety),
– Civil Safety (Civil Protection),
– Civil Safety (Life Safety),
– Technological Safety,
– Fire Safety.

Students also participate in the second round of the International Student Research Competition in the J4 specialty “Occupational Safety”.

Students also participate in the “Black Sea Science” International Student Research Competition and other competitions.

Students’ achievements in All-Ukrainian and international student research competitions by year:

– 2025 – until today
– 2021 – 2024
– 2015 – 2020

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Scientific conferences

Since 2001, our department has organized and held an annual international scientific and methodological conference titled “Human Safety in Modern Conditions”. Students majoring in J4 “Occupational health and safety” and enrolled in the “Occupational health and safety” educational program also participate in this conference, presenting the results of their research.

Collections of abstracts of reports with the participation of students can be found in the relevant section of the repository of NTU “KhPI” starting from 2014 at this link – Go to collections of abstracts of reports.

Also, students actively participate in the annual international scientific and practical conference “Information technologies: science, technology, technology, education, health” (MicroCAD), held by NTU “KhPI”. Abstracts of reports of the international scientific and practical conference with the participation of students since 2009 can be found in the repository of NTU “KhPI” – Open.

In addition to participating in scientific conferences held at our university, students also actively participate in other scientific conferences, including those abroad.

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Participation in international projects, grants, and startup activities

A startup, or startup company, is a newly created organization that builds its business on the foundation of innovation or advanced technologies. Such companies are often in the early stages of development, may not yet be officially registered, but intend to become full-fledged market participants. They have either not yet entered the market or have only just begun the process, usually operating with limited resources. Such organizations are often referred to as “garage” companies.
The innovations on which startups are based can be global or local in nature. In the first case, they are innovative for the whole world, and in the second, they are unique only to a particular country, even if they are already considered standard in other regions.

The startup opens up unique opportunities for transforming scientific developments into profitable projects. Participation in the startup competition gives faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates the opportunity not only to have their ideas evaluated in terms of investment attractiveness, but also to identify the weaknesses of their projects, hear constructive criticism, and take it into account for future improvement.

Chernovetskyi Investment Group (CIG) — one of the largest investment companies in the CIS market—was founded in 2013 and has an investment portfolio exceeding $100 million.
CIG R&D LAB is an educational and scholarship program of Chernovetskyi Investment Group aimed at motivating students, graduate students, and young researchers at higher education institutions to conduct research, develop skills in commercializing ideas, and create mechanisms for implementing innovative projects.
Unlike typical venture capital funds on the market, whose primary performance metric is the number of investments, CIG focuses on the quality of each investment. CIG invests its own money, not someone else’s, and only when it is fully confident in a project’s potential.

The CIG R&D Lab project is being implemented under a memorandum of understanding between NTU “KhPI” and CIG, which was signed in August 2018.
The goal of the collaboration between NTU “KhPI” and CIG is to create a mechanism to motivate students, graduate students, and young researchers at the university to engage in scientific and innovative research, acquire skills in commercializing ideas and developments, and develop mechanisms for implementing innovative projects.

The memorandum stipulates that the Chernovetskyi Investment Group will fund a scholarship and mentoring program for inventors and researchers at NTU “KhPI” who are selected by the screening committee. In turn, NTU “KhPI” will ensure the administrative and methodological implementation of the project at the university; prepare the necessary documentation for CIG to disburse scholarships to participants; and report on the progress of participants’ projects. Following this, a final selection will be made among the participants. The winner will receive investment to develop their project.

2025 year: