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Most students joined –in people, andanother746students up 734foreigners; in2017,itwas 677 more foreign students: in2016,we signed scientific institutes, and units.territorial people study at our faculties, educational- graduate school. postgraduate of our students are part Today, candidates 16doctoral and223 of ouruniversity's personnelpolicy. tasks studiesremaindoctoral priority professions inpostgraduate and and expanding therange ofscientific youngtraining, talents, supporting candidates ofsciences. including 14PhD thesesand36–of 50 scientific theses were defended, year.fulfilled inthe reporting In 2018, successfully taskswe've most important well asassociate professors, isoneofthe professors, andcandidates ofsciences, as scientific degree andacademic ranks. of scholarsandpersonnelholdinga seeing stabledynamicsofthepotential thepastthreeOver years, been we've the fruitfulwork ofouruniversity staff. recognition, andawards are alldueto AVIATOR Pilot training isanotherstep toward yearNext we are to confirm the Each year, we are more attracting and 1,2018,atotal of23,378 As ofOct Promoting highlyqualifiedpersonnel Increasing theshare ofPhDs, Strong positionsinvarious rankings, OFFICIALLY 2 Agency (NASRDA);Agency memorandums with Space Research andDevelopment National withNigeria's the Memorandum specialists' training at theICAO Office; and organization aviation ofUkrainian onthecoordinationMemorandum Organization (ICAO); as well as the NAU andtheInternationalCivil Aviation between Services on Management developing. The Agreement was signed cooperation hasbeenactively levels. image at bothnational andinternational strengthening theuniversity's public and self-realization; and supporting students, settingupconditions for their professional growth ofuniversity graduates ofallgenerations; promoting corporate culture amongstudents and major tasksincludestrengthening andbeyond. The Association's industry, and, what's pleasing, bothin now recognized specialistsintheaviation alumniare Our generations are partaking. where university graduates of various setting uptheNAU Graduate Association player intheworld ofeducation is asapowerful of ouruniversity's glory under therelevant programs. agreements andreceived five grants Also, we have signed offsixinternational university, paidfor by thestate budget. 11 research at are the projects underway fundamental and 20 against 2017. 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Eight OFFICIALLY The university's international step towardAn important the revival The university boasts a significant Another winthisyear isasolidUAH AVIATOR.NAU.EDU.UA of Ukraine's highereducational institutions.of Ukraine's universities among and 327 19th Ukrainian in TOP-200 We are also22ndplace inthe Webometrics ranking in thenational consolidated rating and5thinKyiv. scientific, andinternational operations, 12th ranking educational facilitiesinterms ofeducational, at staff conference at staff Rector's address Our university is among Ukraine's besthigher university isamongUkraine's Our colleagues,Dear commend your results! also boostingourcompetitiveness. at bothnational and international levels, staff, we will confirm NAU's highstatus anddiligent of alluniversityefforts work applicants intheaviation area. more grants, increase ofthenumber incentives through ratings, attract equip theuniversity, promote financial of ourteaching staffandstudents, further development, ensure academicmobility up aneffective system ofprofessional Collective Contract. in 2018fulfilledallbasicprovisions ofthe within target limits. That is, theuniversity in linewiththe2018budgetandfinanced works andoverhaul at thecampuswere fund. library for long-term useandreplenished our budgets. Also, we procured equipment financed from NAU's general andspecial totalingand dorms UAH 13.6millionwere the university campus, includingclasses conference ofJan22,2018. Collective Contract, approved at thestaff the university were guidedby thevalid rights andinterests at ofthoseworking as issuesrelated to theprotection of relations as well in theirsocio-economic at theICAO training Institute's centers. recurrenttrained orunderwent training wereBelarus, China,andIndia either Kyrgyzstan, Montenegro, Canada, France, Moldova, Latvia, Kazakhstan, Armenia, Georgia,specialists from , and295aviationspecialists from Ukraine of Economic Research. Training University andNational Institute cooperation withBatumi-based Naval andtheAgreementState University; on between NAU and Shota Rustaveli Batumi oncooperation Memorandum (PRC); Mongolia Inner Technology University Professional University ofLimingand I appreciate your fruitfulwork and I ampositive that, through joint year's istoNext majorobjective set Procurements, aswell maintenance andmaintenanceOverhaul works at 2018,theadministration andstaffIn underreview, theperiod During 993 01, 2019 01,

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On Dec, 18, 2018, the National Aviation University held a Staff Conference where 242 delegates registered of 300 elected. The board elected to chair the event was composed of five members, including Rector of the University, Volodymyr Isaienko, Vice- Rector for academic work Artur Gudmanian, Vice-Rector for international cooperation and education Oleksandr Zaporozhets, Vice-Rector for the economy and maintenance work Roza Vinetska, and Chairman of the Trade Union Committee Volodymyr Hrebennikov. NAU STAFF

Dr. Volodymyr Isaienko in his report CONFERENCE elaborated on the scope of the uni- versity staff's innovation projects throughout 2018. He emphasized In their reports, head of NAU's valid until the new one has been positive trends in student admission, primary trade union organization adopted. The delegates upheld the academic process organization, Volodymyr Hrebennikov and chief of motion. and success stories of individual primary organization of the Students' The Conference passed without structural units. Also, he focused Trade Union, Maria Roschuk, spoke objections a revised version of the on the achievements of academic about the operations in 2018 of the Statute presented by the Statute staff, including research, as well as university's professional unions. Committee Chairman, Oleksandr publications in scientific periodicals. The Based on the reports approved and Zaporozhets, and supported changes report touched upon the university's conclusions made by structural units, to the composition of the labor international efforts and prospects the delegates assessed the Collective disputes and safety commission. in the area, including cooperation Contract as duly executed in 2018. First Vice-Rector Valery Kozlovsky with the International Civil Aviation Head of the legal department was elected the Commission's new Organization (ICAO). Besides, the Lesia Prudyvus provided well-founded chairman. report highlighted the issues related to explanations regarding the delay in the The Staff Conference heard fulfilling the Collective Contract. signing of a new Collective Contract constructive discussions, while no Volodymyr Isaienko's report was for 2019-2020, having emphasized objections were submitted regarding followed by a Q&A session. First Vice- that the existing Contract will remain its holding. Rector Valery Kozlovsky, Chairman of a NAU-based primary organization of the All-Ukrainian professional union of workers of land, water, and aviation transport, Valery Chepizhenko, head of Aerodynamics and Flight Safety Department at the Aerospace Institute, Serhiy Ishchenko, Institute of Humanities director Serhiy Yahodzinskyi, Professor Mykola Husiy of the Institute of Computer Technologies, Law Institute director Iryna Sopilko, Institute of Navigation, and Electronics and Telecommunication deputy director Roman Odarchenko took part in discussions. The delegates approved the Rector’s report and assessed his work as satisfactory. OFFICIALLY 01, 2019 AVIATOR.NAU.EDU.UA AVIATOR 4 INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION

he NAU delegation headed On the sidelines of by Rector Volodymyr the Summit, NAU Rector TIsaienko joined the work Volodymyr Isaienko held of the International Civil Aviation a number of working ICAO's Organization's New Generation of meetings, including Aviation Professionals (NGAP2) Global with the World UAV NEW GENERATION Summit. It was the second time ICAO Federation President was holding the Summit, this time in Yang Jincai, the OF AVIATION Shenzhen, China. organization's Secretary Over 1000 aviation professionals, General Norman Ng, INTERNATIONALgovernment officials, and scholars Deputy Director of the PROFESSIONALS from across the globe, discussed Air Navigation Bureau COOPERATIONstrategies for training qualified and at ICAO Catalin Radu, competent aviation experts to ensure and RSA NATIONALDeputy MinisterINTERNATIONAL AVIATION UNIVERSITY stable operation, maintenance, and of Transport Sindiswe COOPERATION control of air traffic in the future. Chikunga. In her opening remarks, Secretary General of ICAO Dr. Fang Liu said: "By 2036, some 620,000 pilots will be needed across our global network, and no less than 80% of these aviators will be new pilots not yet flying today. A similar story is playing out with respect to the future air traffic controllers, cabin crew, maintenance personnel and other skilled technicians needed.” She has added it is important that ICAO maintains the momentum gained in the NGAP area, and it is equally important that the participants bring the scale of these tasks to the global level. INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF AVIATION nternational Association of Aviation at the global and regional levels the AND and Aerospace Education took off interests of universities offering aviation- AEROSPACE Iat the Aviation University Forum related programs. In particular, the held within the framework of the Next Association will participate in the work of EDUCATION Generation of Aviation Professionals the ICAO's NGAP Program, representing Global Summit held in Shenzhen, China. the interests of governments, industries, Rector Volodymyr Isaienko represented and higher education facilities. National Aviation University to sign off Partner universities have decided the Agreement. that their coordinated efforts and Together with NAU, the Agreement general contribution will help find was signed by representatives of and implement effective approaches more than 30 world's leading aviation to challenges in engaging and universities. Another twenty expressed training a new generation of aviation their will to join the Association. In professionals, also making sure they general, universities of Australia, stay in their jobs. Belarus, the United Kingdom, Venezuela, The move to set up the Association Georgia, Germany, Italy, Canada, China, was initiated by Dr. Isaienko, the South Korea, South Africa, Poland, Rector of NAU, in Nov 2017 at the ICAO Russia, Romania, Singapore, Slovakia, Headquarters (Montreal, Canada) during the USA, Turkey, France, and the Czech the signing of a Memorandum between Republic supported the establishment ICAO and the NAU on the coordination

of ALICANTO. and organization of training of Ukrainian NATIONAL AVIATION UNIVERSITY AVIATION NATIONAL The Association's objectives include aviation professionals at the ICAO representing,NATIONAL promoting, andAVIATION protecting Office. UNIVERSITY АVIАТОR AVIATOR.NAU.EDU.UA 01, 2019 INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION 5

the Second “ICAO Model” Forum held in the framework of the Second ICAO “New Generation of Aviation COOPERATION Professionals” (NGAP) Global NATIONAL AVIATION UNIVERSITY Summit. WITH Some 180 university students from 28 countries discussed civil WORLD aviation-related problems, prepared for them by ICAO technical experts. The Forum was a unique possibility FEDERATION to raise students' awareness of ICAO's role in the international arena as well as complex challenges of reaching global consensus on PhD STUDENT critical air traffic issues. AT AEROSPACE INSTITUTE Forum participants were able to work in teams, offering approaches TOOK PART IN SECOND they believed would be best to specific issues, including Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS): next-gen “ICAO MODEL”NATIONALaviation; hazardous AVIATIONair cargos; UNIVERSITY social-economic advantages of air transportation; air safety; and strengthening air safety systems. nyedikachi Chioma Okoro, The teams reported on the results a PhD student at NAU's of their joint work to a board of OAerospace Institute, attended aviation experts. ector of NAU Volodymyr Isaienko during his vice-rectors Oleksandr Vice-rector for science at Shota RShenzhen visit met with NAU Zaporozhets, Volodymyr Rustaveli Batumi State University; World UAV Federation President Kharchenko and Arthur Gudmanian and Ketevan Goletian, dean of Yang Jincai and the organization's duringINTERNATIONAL their meeting with top the logistics faculty at Batumi Secretary General Norman Hung- managersCOOPERATION of Georgian universities Navigation University. Ning NG. Mr. Jincai awarded talked cooperation on promoting NAU's Faculty of Economics and Dr. Isaienko with a Diploma of the scientific and technological progress Business Administration (FEBA) World UAV Federation Honorary and improving the efficiency of has largely contributed to the Member. education and research. meeting, kindly assisted by Halyna The Georgian side was represented Kuzmenko, Associate Professor by Badri Khechbaia, Director of of the Central Ukrainian National National Institute of Economic Technical University, who is also an Research (Batumi); Natella Tsiklashvili, Honorary Professor at the Batumi Navigation University. The parties discussed joint efforts EXPANDING in launching and implementing NATIONAL AVIATION UNIVERSITYjoint scientific projects, setting CONTACTS WITH up and holding joint conferences, drafting monographs with their further promotion among GEORGIAN scientific publications, assisting in establishing relations with other UNIVERSITIES partners, holding round-tables, gaining membership in various INTERNATIONALorganizing committees, holding COOPERATIONopen lectures, jointly drafting scientific articles, doing expert The parties reached an work, conducting trainings, master agreement on the NAU partici- classes, etc. pation in the Second Unmanned Following the meeting, Aviation Congress set to be held the NAU delegation signed off in Shenzhen June 22-23, 2019. memorandums on cooperation The event will engage over 2,000 with each of the Batumi-based organizations, while more than higher educational facilities 300 developers will showcase their mentioned. inventions. 01, 2019 AVIATOR.NAU.EDU.UA АVIАТОR 6 INSTITUTE OF ICAO

Training Institute has ICAO offered National Guard servicemen an aviation safety course AVIATION designed to ensure safe transportation of special categories of passengers. SAFETY TRAINING Having completed the course, the selected guardsmen gained practical for SE ANTONOV skills and new knowledge in the management area. National Guard Commander, Institute of Colonel-General Yuriy Allerov, on behalf of the Command and personnel, commended NAU's ICAO Training NATIONALInstitute DirectorInstitute GalynaAVIATION Suslova for UNIVERSITY her pro-active roleof in practical ICAO training ICAO of the National Guardsmen. TRAINING OF UKRAINE'S NATIONAL managers of "Antonov" State TOPEnterprise have completed GUARDSMEN recurrent training at the NAU-based ICAO Training Institute within the framework of the comprehensive program with the latest course titled "Systemic Approach to Aviation Safety "AVIATION Management for Heads of Aviation Companies". The Antonov group included senior managers: Vice-President for Design Oleksandr SAFETY Los, Vice-President for Production Vitaliy Chypak, and Director of Quality, Certification MANAGEMENT and Aviation Safety Management System Yuriy Kordianin. SYSTEM" institute The group members noted the practical of icao focus of the training course, adding that it can be ystem approach to aviation TRAINING COURSE applied in everyday operations of the company safety is a focal point of the Among course participants, top management. Also, they appreciated lively "Aviation Safety Management there were civil aviation orga- discussions of relevant global, regional, and S System" training course set up by nizations' employees, including national regulations related to the aviation the ICAO Training Institute. Institute of SE Antonov, AtlasJet Ukraine, safety system. Director Galyna Suslova along with a Anda Air, Vulkan Air, Valan A total of 107 Antonov employees pair of instructors – Dmytro Bugayko (Moldova), Sky Service handling underwent recurrent training at the ICAO and Oleksandr Bashta – are in charge of agency, and Ukrainian Handling Institute in 2018. the program. Company.

and recurrent training programs and examiners representing designed for aviation professionals the Ukraine International in line with ICAO international Airlines Training Center, NAU's LANGUAGE requirements. Kirovohrad Flight Academy, The seminar yielded productive NAU's Kremenchuk Air College, COMPETENCE: results due to professionalism of Interbridge Training Center, COMPLIANCE WITH instructors and a pro-active stance Condor Flight Training School, ICAO REQUIREMENTS of Aviation English teachers, raters, and other educational facilities. he ICAO Training Institute hosted an annual recurrent training T seminar for raters/examiners in the field of Aviation English. A psychological portrait of Aviation English rater/examiner was reviewed, while discussions were also held on a number of global issues related to aviation safety. New terminology was in focus including in cybersecurity, as well as recognizing certain alarming behavior to spot problem passengers. Topics discussed

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ector Volodymyr Isaienko, Director of the ICAO Training MEMORANDUM RInstitute Galyna Suslova, NATIONAL AVIATION UNIVERSITY and chief of the Ukrainian State Air ON COOPERATION WITH Traffic Services Enterprise (UkSATSE), Dmytro Babeychuk, have signed the Memorandum on Cooperation and U k SATSE Partnership allowing the sides to develop a new personnel training area in the field of air safety, and UkSATSE professionals – to obtain ICAO international certificates. UkSATSE personnel and instructors from the ICAO Training Institute will be Training programs will cover involved in training courses in various the following areas: flight safety fields dealing with the operation of Partnershipsupervision and management, individual components of aviation safety risk management, setting up management systems, both separately and conducting aviation safety- and as part of integrated management related items within the air traffic systems, specific to the operation of airNATIONAL AVIATIONmanagement UNIVERSITY system, as well as navigation service providers. audits and inspections.

of one of our university departments ector Volodymyr Isaienko NEW CONTRACT used to operate at the plant premises, held a working meeting and now, we are set to renew their work. Rwith NAU partners, We'd like to have new departments, new exporters of educational services. SIGNED WITH labs, and new projects born, including The meeting focused on the results international ones. So I hope for further of this academic year's efforts aimed SE "PLANT fruitful cooperation," said Dr. Isaienko. at foreign students' recruitment for In turn, Viktor Hankevych in his remarks various forms of training. 410 CA" said that over 70 years of the plant's The rector briefed his instituteof icao history, its "development and position counterparts on positive trends in the international arena are due to the and a growing number of foreign National Aviation University." students over the past years. "More than 150 of our professionals Exporters, in turn, voiced their graduated from your university. Also, the ideas and wishes for developing plant is looking forward to see more young cooperation. The parties also specialists, NAU graduates in the future, identified certain issues arising in to bring in our team their new vision and operational activities and ways to new ideas for further development of our tackle them. enterprise. I hope that we will not limit The university honored its ourselves to just teaching studying letting partners – StudMir, Air Pouya, them practice at our plant, but also partake Advanta, and Merosstar – with the in joint research projects, including at "Leader Among Educational Service the international level," the plant chief Exporters" diplomas. said. Following the meeting, the NATIONAL AVIATION UNIVERSITYAppreciating years of cooperation parties decided to establish a NAU- with the university, NAU awarded Viktor based Association of Educational ational Aviation University Hankevych with a Diploma of Honor for Service Exporters, which will mold and State Enterprise Special Contribution. the core for further cooperation. N"Plant 410 Civil Aviation" on International Civil Aviation Day signed a Partnership and Cooperation UNIVERSITY TO HOST Agreement. On the partPartnership of NAU, the deal was signed by Rector Volodymyr ASSOCIATION OF Isaienko, while the signatory representing SE Plant 410 CA's was its INTERNATIONAL CEO Viktor Hankevych. Dr. Isaienko noted that the PROVIDERS OF university had launched cooperation EDUCATIONAL with Plant 410 CA more than 50 years ago. "Thanks to the signing of the SERVICES agreement, our long-term cooperation will see a new impetus. Two branches 01, 2019 AVIATOR.NAU.EDU.UA АVIАТОR 8 STUDENT LIFE

Iryna Matsun – Institute of International Relations; WINNERS OF Veronika Momotiuk – Law Institute; Alina Syvokonenko – Institute of Humanities; ELEPHANT Maria Chernysheva – Institute of Airports; Viktoria Shevchenko – Institute of HACKATHON Continuing Education. Congratulations to all students! RECEIVE GRANT We wish you further success, endless CONGRATULATIONS energy, inspiration in your endeavors, TO EQUIP LAB TO OUR and new accomplishments! he NAU team won the Elephant Hackathon innova- UNIVERSITY'S tions contest, receiving T ector Volodymyr Isaienko BEST a grant to equip at the National Aviation University a research awarded a number of students STUDENTS lab. Rfor their distinguished achievements in education, research, ! art, and sports: Alina Andreieva – Institute of Air Navigation, Electronics, and Telecommunications; Viktoria Vilchanska – Faculty of Military Training; Daria Voloshchuk – Faculty of Economics and Business Administration; Kyrylo Yereshchenko – Faculty of Transport Technologies; Vladyslav Kyychenko – Institute of The victorious team consisting Ecological Safety; of students Olena Todorovych and Oleksandr Lazarevsky – Institute of Iryna Syrotina, along with their Information and Diagnostic Systems; teachers at the Institute of Ecological Olha Martynchuk – Institute of Safety Lesia Pavlyukh and Serhiy Computer Information Technologies; Shamansky, presented their project titled: "Sewage purification with microalgae." They offered an effective tool to battle excess phosphates in open water bodies. Technology NAU implies using in treatment systems a special kind of microalgae able to STUDENT naturally filter water. TOPS IN "UKRAINIAN,

tudent of the Institute of LANGUAGE OF Humanities, Tetiana Obodovska, UNITY" Sbecame a laureate of the XIX All- Ukrainian Contest "Ukrainian, Language of Unity," held in Odesa. CONTEST The competition was organized by the The jury noted Tetiana Obodovska's National Union of Journalists of Ukraine project titled "Means of covering and the Black Sea Academy of Language operations of the Association of Wives Elephant Hackathon saw more Technology and Communications, and Mothers of ATO Fighters NGO". than 1,000 applications, of which 21 attracting participants from across The student's scientific advisor in teams were selected to participate Ukraine and beyond, including from the project was Svitlana Lytvynska, in the competition. The NAU team the U.S., Canada, China, Germany, Israel, Associate Professor of the Institute of was the only one, which included India, Estonia, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Humanities' Department of History and students. Poland, Belarus, and Moldova. Documentation. AVIATOR AVIATOR.NAU.EDU.UA 01, 2019 STUDENT LIFE 9

SUCCESS IN "FUTURE OF THIRD UKRAINE'S TOURIST INDUSTRY" PLACE COMPETITION AT GLOBALLOGIC lina Kovalenko and Oksana EMBEDDED Pustova, students of the AInstitute of International Relations, won a six-month HACKATHON scholarship at the VII All-Ukrainian he team comprised of stu- Student Scholarship Competition dents and faculty staff at the titled "Future of Ukraine's Tourist TInstitute of Air Navigation, Industry". Electronics, and Telecommunications' Department of Electronics ranked third at the Hackathon organized by Global Logic.

Denys Navrotsky, Oleksiy Savchenko, Dmytro Poltoratsky, and Fedir Katushonok have developed a smart car control program applying the V2X protocol and programmed smart cars' The two students successfully behavior in standard and non-standard presented and defended their situations. innovative tourism project "Dis- The program's performance has been cover U Countryside" where they practically tested using real car models, substantiated possibilities of each controlled by a Rasberry Pi 3-based development of engaging recreatio- microcontroller, using the V2X data nal and tourist activities in rural exchange protocol. areas across Kyiv region. The project's The team operated in the IDE QT scientific advisor was Hanna Uvarova, Creator on Ubuntu, using Python and Associate Professor at the Department C++ programming languages. of Country Studies and Tourism.

t was the fourth time that our students took part in the INational "Steel Freedom" Architectural Competition. The jury promoted a project by Team С57 (Arsen Zerali, Ihor Osadchuk, Vladyslav Keliukh, and Maksym Rakovych) to the competition's GRAND PRIZE AT

semifinals in the category "Concept of Public Buildings Complex in STEEL Kyiv's Holosiyivsky district". The contest's general partner, Metinvest, awarded C57, the team represented by students of the Institute of Airports, with a grand FREEDOM-2018 prize – a trip to the London Festival CONTEST of Architecture 2019. 01, 2019 AVIATOR.NAU.EDU.UA AVIATOR 10 STUDENT LIFE BEST IN FIRST ALL-UKRAINIAN MOOT COURT DEBATE CONTEST tudents of the Law Institute won the All- Ukrainian Moot Court Debate Contest S in Administrative Jurisdiction, hosted by the Cassation Administrative Court of the Supreme Court.

NAU's team called HONESTAS LEGALIS competed with four rivals: "PRO BONO" (Lviv Trade and Economics University), "Themis" (Vasyl Stus Donetsk National University), "SERVI LEGIS" (Zaporizhia National University), and "KNTEU Generation" (Kyiv National University of Trade and Economics).

Our HONESTAS LEGALIS boasted a first degree diploma, a Cup, and valuable gifts. Runners up were a team of Zaporizhzhya National University. The competitors from Vasyl Stus Donetsk National University sealed the third spot in the competition.

mytro Harbulinsky and Daria Cup for students. Ivan Vrzhesnevsky, Voloshchuk have brought head of the PE department at the Dhome victories from a Martial SPORTS Institute of Humanities, was the Arts Festival held in Kyiv. Among team manager at the contest where teams from nine Kyiv-based higher 68 young chess talents competed, educational facilities trying their best in ACHIEVEMENTS representing 16 Kyiv-based higher the tournament, NAU deployed its coed educational facilities. Our students team in eight weight categories. Oleksandr Aldoshyn of the Military Training Department won silver in individual sniper shooting contest among Kyiv students. NAU's two teams taking part in the tournament, both trained by Assistant Professor at the Institute of Humanities' PE department Volodymyr Bobr, ranked 5th and 11th. With seven victories in pocket, Team NAU got into the TOP-5 in the Kyiv Chess

In general count, - Nazar Piletsky, Team NAU, led by - Vadym Burianov, Vasyl Pakhomov - Oleksiy Tkachenko, of the Institute of - Ivan Korniychuk, Humanities' PE - Oleksandr Lutsyk, department, - Angelina Berdeha, stopped short of - Yelizaveta Morozova winning the tourna- have all won in their ment. categories.

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eam NAU triumphed at the All-Ukrainian VIP Law Student TCompetition, organized by the university's Law Institute jointly with the Coordinating Council of Young Lawyers under the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine. A total of 20 teams competed in the contest. The team of NAU's Law Institute won the first prize, while the team representing Yaroslav the Wise National Law University were runners-up. Another team in TOP-3 was from Ivan Franko National University of Lviv. In line with the rules of the competition, the winners confronted at a super-final stage a team of Ukraine's leading lawyers. And Team NAU won, again. LAW Another major victory came as the Law Institute's team topped at the Koretsky WINS International Law Competition. The team of students and faculty staff from the Constitutional and Administrative Law Department drafted an application to be filed with the European Court of Human Rights. Also, team members voiced comments to Government regarding the admissibility of a particular case and spoke in a moot ECHR hearing. Having edged past other teams to the final round, Team NAU sealed their victory against the team representing Ihor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute. Attention, inventors! ou are welcome to pitch your bids for EUROPE'S CHRISTMAS the competitive selection of start-ups to Yreceive grants from the Invention Support Fund of the Ministry of Economic Development FANTASY and Trade of Ukraine. Applications shall be accepted until March 31, 2019, in the following areas: 1. Development of modern information, communication technologies, and robotics; 2. Development of new technologies in energy transportation, implementation of energy- efficient, resource-saving technologies, and development of alternative energy sources; and 3. Development of new technologies in high- tech progress of the transport system, rocket and space industry, aircraft and shipbuilding, oreign Languages Department of the armament, and military equipment. Institute of International Relations, By submitting an application through a public Fjointly with the European Union portal, developers will take part in the competition Information Center, organized a "Europe's and get a chance of receiving a two-stage financial Christmas Fantasy" Fest. grant assistance. Attendees were briefed on the EU's The first stage involves support in shaping educational programs, culture and traditions the idea, creating a business model, drafting of European nations, ethnic music, and a presentation, and conducting the necessary traditional souvenirs. The EU Information research. During the second stage, the inventor Center held contests and quizzes, awarding will be able to form the authorized capital of their the most engaged participants. company, attracting up to UAH 2 million from At a charity fair held on the festival's the state in the person of the State Innovation sidelines, all guests had an opportunity Finance and Credit Institution, and the same to enjoy various national cuisines from all amount – from the investor. You can find detailed over the globe. The organizers of the Fair information on the website of the Ministry of donated all funds raised to a sick children Economic Development's Invention Support Fund. rehabilitation project. 01, 2019 AVIATOR.NAU.EDU.UA AVIATOR 12 APPLICANTS 2019

ore than 50 students of the Luhansk regional Mterritorial branch of the Small Academy of Sciences of SCIENCE Ukraine engaged in mathematics, biology, chemistry, and robotics have visited NAU in the framework of Science Days. Students visited the Aviation Training Hangar, where DAYS they could imagine themselves 2019 Devices and Systems Yevhen being real pilots in a training FOR SCHOOL STUDENTS Habrusenko delivered a OURsession ENTRANTS on a Tu-154 simulator. lecture titled "Fundamentals Head of the Avionics FROM LUHANSK REGION of Radio Monitoring and Department Svitlana Pavlova and NATIONAL AVIATION UNIVERSITYInformation Security." Associate Professor Oleksandr The young talents from Varchenko addressed the students, applicantsLuhansk region visited explaining how their department the Scientific-Technical works. Then came the lectures Library, where sector chief offered by university staff. Professor Oksana Lazarenko told the of the Department of Aerospace children of STL's huge stock Management Valery Azarskov of more than 2 million two- talked about aerospace studies at million books, including NAU, while head of the electronics works of contemporary department Felix Yanovsky told the Ukrainian writers, among kids about the Internet of Things whom there are Donbas and modern radar technologies. natives Vasyl Holoborodko, Associate Professor of the Serhiy Zhadan, and Irena Department of Radio-electronic Rozdobudko.

ome 300 high school students from the town ORIENTATION FOR of Vyshneve and Kyiv district atten- Sded a "Job Fair" orientation event. NAU was represented by the Institute for Continuing Education. Applicants learned about university curriculum, VYSHENEVE including classes taught in English, and opportunities available to join a variety of international educational SCHOOL STUDENTS projects and programs. They were informed about research and development practices and time in campus, as well as real possibilities of joining internship programs in developes companies, and prospects of further employment in the chosen area. High school students were invited to visit NAU on Open Doors days: February 2, April 11, and June 8 or opt for an excursion to learn more about the university.

he University has signed a cooperation agree- ment with the Rivne Students' Small Academy Tof Sciences. The Agreement envisages cooperation in the field of scientific experiments, educational methodology, and management in relation to specialized extra-curricular education, and is aimed at discovering and supporting young talents. To this end, university scholars will hold lectures at the Gifted Youth Center operating under the auspices of the Institute for Continuing Education, where workshops and various trainings are offered. COOPERATION Thus, the cooperation between NAU and regional branches of the Small Academy of Sciences of Ukraine is not only aimed at developing and popularizing the WITH RIVNE university's scientific potential among young people, it

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riya's wingspan is 88.4 meters. MOnly two planes surpass the An-225 in this regard: the Hughes H-4 hirty years ago, (97.5 m), which belongs on December 21, to the class of flying boats 1988, the world's and made only one flight in T largest cargo aircraft, 1947, and a twin-fuselage An-225 "Mriya," made its Stratolaunch (117.3 m). maiden flight, setting 110 world aviation records at riya has its he construction once. Since that time, the fuel loaded in process started in number of Mriya's records eighteen tanks, 1985 and lasted M T reached 240, which is an three per engine, with a total only three and a half years – absolutely unprecedented capacity of 405,000 liters. a comparatively small term case in aviation history. Consumption depends on from the aircraft design the aircraft load. In cruising perspective. The aircraft mode, An-225 consumes n 2005, British design was based on the 15.9 tonnes of fuel per hour. An-124-100 "Ruslan" model, experts included An- therefore Mriya shares I225 "Mriya" in the with her older brother a list of 13 most prominent riya once hosted large number of common aircraft in the history of an art exhibition. equipment and parts. The aviation. Its images were MSeptember 27, "Mriya" logo was put on the engraved on thirteen silver 2012 during the Aviasvit-XXI aircraft the night before the coins issued in the UK. air show, there was an art new airplane was tugged In 2002, the NBU issued exhibit set up on board at an from the assembly shop. a commemorative "An- altitude of 10,500 m. Some 225 Mriya" coin in UAH 5 500 paintings of 90 artists denomination, as part of were ehxibited. n Mriya's CV, there the series titled "Airplanes are actually three of Ukraine". "maiden" flights: I he giant takes off - December 21, 1988, An-225 first took off to the riya is the only at 560 kmh and sky; cargo aircraft Tlands at 295 kmh. - May 3, 1989, the M equipped with It can stay in the air for up six jet engines having to 18 hours and tackle the 30 aircraft first carried the YEARS OF Buran spacecraft. nearly 75,000 hp capacity. distance up to 15,000 km - May 7, 2001, Mriya, per flight. which had by that time -225 "Mriya" MRIYA been restored and moder- An("Cossack" in nized for commercial NATO classification) was he cargo com- exploitation, took off after developed by the Antonov partment is able it was mothballed for a long Design Bureau in Kyiv. Tto accommodate time when the Energy Buran 270 giraffes and 200 program was shut down. Daewoo Lanos cars. Mriya This date is considered he Ukrainian flying can carry four times as Mriya's second Birthday. giant has always much cargo as a Boeing Tattracted huge 737. The airplane is even he gear consists of public attention, leaving able to transport the entire 32 wheels: four in crowds amazed with each Boeing 737 body. the nose gear and take-off and landing. T Remaining the only model 28 – in the main one in a unique set of seven rows of its kind ever produced, it of four. Four rear rows firmly remains in the global can rotate to an angle focus as one of the largest corresponding to the machines in the aviation radius of aircraft rotation, industry. so it takes only 56 meters for Mriya to complete a COOPERATION 180-degree turn. WITH RIVNE SMALL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 01, 2019 AVIATOR.NAU.EDU.UA АVIАТОR 14 UNIVERSITY LIFE

ORGANIZATION OF AVIATION, MULTIMODAL TRANSPORTATIONS OF AVIATION That's what was discussed at the international scientific and practical conference, dedicated to the 45th anniversary of the Department of Air Transportation of NAU's Faculty of Transport UNIVERSITY Technologies. Vice President of Ukraine International MEETING OF LIFEAirlines Serhiy Fomenko highlighted the NATIONAL AVIATIONUNIVERSITYimportance UNIVERSITY of organization of transfer flights in Ukraine and emphasized UIA's leading UKRAINE'S role in the process. Alla Novikova, deputy director of science at the State Enterprise ASSOCIATION OF AIRPORTS "State Automobile Transport Research and Development Project", focused on the LIFEhe Ecology Department of prospects for the development of aviation the Institute of Ecological transportation in accordance with the TSafety hosted a meeting of National Transport Strategy of Ukraine until the Aviation Fuel Supply Committee of 2030. Professor Khrystyna Marintseva of the Association of Airports of Ukraine, the Department of Aviation Transportation attended by representatives of 10 revealed the role of the university in Ukrainian airports, the State Aviation addressing global issues in the area. Administration, and the State Fiscal Service of Ukraine. The Committee members discussed harmonization with of European standards of the process of aviation fuel supply in Ukraine, equipment upgrade, procedures for metrological verification, and a new technology for the acceptance and clearance of aviation fuels. The use of UAVs in various spheres of the economy (express delivery, agriculture, he Department of logistics, etc.) was discussed in the reports Aircraft Design and the delivered by the head of the department TAircraft Retroffiting of the organization of air transportation, Department of the Aerospace Hennady Yuna, and postgraduate students Institute received from LLC Andriy Hnashuk and Denys Medynsky. "MAUTechnik" (a subsidiary of the Ukraine International Airlines) samples of aviation components for conducting TOP VACANCY AT practical exercises to study non- destructive methods of control NAU'S and investigation of fatigue damage. Today, the training of highly KRYVYI RIH skilled aviation specialists would be impossible without the COLLEGE practical component of such The National Aviation University training. According to EASA announces a competition for the vacancy regulations, the number of of the head of NAU's Kryvyi Rih College. practical training hours should be Job applications will be accepted within NAU DEPARTMENTS 50–60% of the total study time. In a month from the day of publication addition, in order to acquire the of the competition announcement RECEIVE SAMPLES OF necessary level of practical skills at the following address: 03058, Kyiv, and abilities, students must study 1 Kosmonavta Komarova Avenue in conditions that are as close (Building 1), room 128. Please call AVIATION as possible to the production +38 (044) 406-76-18 for additional environment, and with the information about the requirements for

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held a second session of the NAUtraining practice for student FOR OUR experts on the quality of higher education NATIONAL AVIATION UNIVERSITY (UASQA Pool). The event was organized by CONGRATULATIONS! the Ukrainian Student Association with the STUDENT support of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine. On the first day of the session, EXPERTS participants met with Deputy Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine, Yuriy Rashkevych. In his address, the official ON QUALITY noted that "the university system has always been based on trust, which, in the first place, is measured by quality. OF HIGHER

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NATIONAL AVIATION UNIVERSITYn January 1, Valeriy Azarskov, Head of Othe Department of Aerospace Control Sys- tems at the Institute of Air Navigation, Electronics and Telecommunications, celebrated his 75th Birthday. He is, an Honored Specialist LIFE in Ukrainian Transport Services, UNIVERSITY laureate of the State Prize in the Without trust in quality, field of science and technology. there can be no academic Valery Azarskov graduated mobility, recognition from the Kyiv Institute of Civil of qualifications, loan transfers, and Aviation Engineers. other things that shape the academic During the training, the students had He launched his career as environment. "On behalf of the Ministry an opportunity to share their views with an engineer of the research of Education and Science of Ukraine, Yuriy guests and prominent speakers, and gain department, then its head, then Rashkevych expressed his sincere gratitude knowledge they need to participate in the Professor, to become Faculty to the National Aviation University for system of internal and external control Dean and then Director of the creating a positive atmosphere and favorable over higher education quality, analysis of NAU Institute. conditions for the training practice. educational programs, etc. He has developed and practically applied training oung scientists from National simulators for astronauts PARLIAMENT Aviation University received readying to fly to the moon and Yscholarships from the Verkhovna other planets, control systems NATIONAL AVIATIONISSUES UNIVERSITYRada of Ukraine. for complex dynamic objects, Decree "On the appointment of methods and algorithms for PERSONAL nominal scholarships of the Verkhovna creating optimal control systems Rada of Ukraine for the most talented for moving objects, and methods SCHOLAR- young scientists in 2019" assigned of structural identification of LIFEpersonal scholarships to: control system dynamics. SHIPS • Serhiy Hnatiuk, Doctor of Technical He has published over 240 UNIVERSITYSciences, Professor at the department of works in print, among which there IT Security at the Institute of Information are monographs and teaching and Diagnostic Systems, senior fellow at aids, author's certificates and NAU's Scientific-Research Division; and invention patents. • Svitlana Kazmirchuk, Doctor He trained eight candidates of Technical Sciences, Head of the and two doctors of sciences. Department of computerized IT security We wish him good health, systems at the Institute of Computer happiness and longevity! Let him Information Technologies; always enjoy inspiration and will Sincere greetings to our colleagues! to share invaluable experience Wishing them inspiration and new with new generations! scientific achievements! 01, 2019 AVIATOR.NAU.EDU.UA АVIАТОR 16 GUESTS OF NAU

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UKRAINE STATE AMONG WORLD'S AVIATION MUSEUM TOP-20 ranked Oleg Antonov State Museum of Aviation of Ukraine operated by National Aviation University ranked among ICAO CNN the world's TOP 20 aviation museums. AVIATION AT NAU The CNN report says the museum houses one of the world's biggest displays of aircraft types. Today, the museum boasts more than 90 exhibits, including supersonic bombes, transport planes, and nuclear missile carriers. MUSEUMS One of the most impressive exhibits is the Tupolev-104, the journalists wrote. "On September 15, 1956, a very important event for civil aviation occurred," Professor Felix Yanovsky, head of the electronics department at the National Aviation University, told CNN. "The world's first jet , the Tupolev-104, made its first passenger flight between Moscow and Irkutsk. This plane is now in the State Aviation Museum of Ukraine, and it's the oldest surviving aircraft of this type." The list of world's best aviation museums also includes those in Australia, Austria, UK, Spain, Canada, China, Poland, Russia, USA, and France.

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