Chair Yoga

Friends, we invite you to join an unusual yoga class—chair yoga!
It’s a gentle, accessible practice for the body and nervous system. No mats, no complicated poses, and no special training required—all exercises are performed while sitting or leaning against a chair.
This format is ideal if:
• you have limited mobility or are recovering from an injury;
• you have a sedentary job and experience tension in your back, neck, or lower back;
• traditional asanas seem too challenging;
• you want to gently reconnect with your body;
• you’re just starting out or looking for a more relaxed pace.

In the classes:
• gentle movements for the joints and spine;
• breathing practices;
• release of tension and fatigue;
• improved blood circulation;
• calming the mind.

Instructor: Vitaliy Antonenko, teacher of balance yoga, kundalini, and breathing practices.
Registration.
Free admission.
To visit the Library, you must bring a valid ID.
We look forward to seeing you!

CORE capabilities for academic libraries and researchers

The KPI Library, in collaboration with the international open access document aggregator CORE, invites librarians, researchers, repository administrators, and anyone working with open science to a webinar dedicated to open access to scientific publications and the development of institutional repositories.

Key questions:

• What is CORE and why is it one of the key infrastructures of open science?
• How can libraries increase the visibility of research through repository integration?
• Practical capabilities of CORE Dashboard: indexing, statistics, metadata quality.
• The role of libraries in the sustainable development of repositories.

Access the webinar via the link. The webinar will be held in Ukrainian. No certificate will be provided.

Bricks in the walls of KPI buildings

Dear friends!

We invite you to the third lecture in the series by local historian and Kyiv expert Oksana Salan, “Bricks in the Walls of KPI Buildings,” as part of the historical studies project “Think about it.”

We continue to discover new pages in the history of Kyiv brick. This is a great opportunity to see familiar buildings from a different angle and discover new details that usually go unnoticed.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Online lecture “Open educational resources for young researchers”

The KPI Library invites postgraduate students of Igor Sikorsky KPI and all interested researchers to join the sixth online lecture “Open Educational Resources for Young Researchers,” which will be held as part of the course “Must-haves for Research Activities.”

You will learn how to significantly expand your research opportunities with the help of open educational resources. The lecture will be useful for those who want to effectively use modern digital tools and legally access high-quality educational materials. You will gain practical skills in working with open resources that will help you in writing scientific papers, preparing publications, and professional development.

Key aspects:

• The concept of open educational resources: what they are and why they are important for science.
• Creative Commons licenses: how to properly use and distribute educational content.
• Search strategies, evaluation methods, and sources: where to find high-quality open resources for learning and research.

Speaker: Svitlana Petrunovska, Deputy Director for Information Support of Education and Research at the KPI Library.

Registration.

All registered participants will receive a link to their email.

Online lecture “Artificial intelligence in scientific work: practical possibilities and ethical limits”

The KPI Library invites graduate students and all interested researchers at Igor Sikorsky KPI to join the online lecture “Artificial Intelligence in Scientific Work: Practical Possibilities and Ethical Limits,” which will be held as part of the open lecture series “Academic Integrity: Rules of the Game or a Matter of Honor.”

In modern scientific practice, artificial intelligence tools are increasingly used to search for scientific literature, analyze information, prepare texts, and present research results. At the same time, their incorrect or uncritical use can pose serious risks to the academic integrity and scientific reputation of young researchers.

Key aspects:

• Responsible and effective use of artificial intelligence tools in scientific work.
• Correct declaration of AI use in accordance with the requirements of scientific journals and publishers.
• Use of AI assistants for working with scientific literature, critical assessment of their capabilities and limitations.
• The problem of AI hallucinations and the author’s responsibility for the accuracy and veracity of results.

Speaker: Serhii Nazarovets, PhD in Social Communications, Senior Researcher at the Library of Borys Grinchenko Kyiv Metropolitan University.

Registration.

All registered participants will receive a link to their email.

Online lecture “Academic networks: how to build professional connections”

The KPI Library invites postgraduate students of Igor Sikorsky KPI and all interested researchers to join the fifth online lecture “Academic Networks: How to Build Professional Connections,” which will be held as part of the course “Must-haves for Research Activities.”

In today’s scientific world, professional connections are no less important than research results. Effective scientific communication helps to find partners, attract funding, participate in international projects, and increase the visibility of one’s work.

Key aspects:

• Effective use of academic platforms: ResearchGate, Academia.edu, LinkedIn to promote research.
• Building professional connections: networking strategies in the academic environment.
• Participation in conferences and collaboration: the importance of international interaction for career development.

Speaker: Sofia Zherebchuk, Chief Librarian, Research Data Management Coordinator at the KPI Library.

Registration.

All registered participants will receive a link via email.

Online lecture “Accessibility of research data”

The KPI Library invites postgraduate students of Igor Sikorsky KPI and all interested researchers to join the fourth online lecture, “Accessibility of Research Data,” which will be held as part of the course “Must-haves for Research Activities.”

The lecture is dedicated to one of the key requirements of modern scientific publication — the accessibility of research data, which can be a powerful tool to help increase citations and make your contribution to science truly noticeable.

Key aspects:

• What are the FAIR principles and why is accessibility at the heart of this approach?
• What characteristics should your data have to make it easy to find and use?
• How do journal data policies affect the publication process?
• Why data access statement templates are needed and how to write them correctly.
• How data citations affect your scientific career.

Speaker: Svitlana Petrunovska, Deputy Director for Information Support of Education and Research at the KPI Library.

Registration.

All registered participants will receive a link to their email.

Online lecture “Identifiers as open science infrastructure: ORCID, DOI, ROR, and others”

The KPI Library invites postgraduate students of Igor Sikorsky KPI and all interested researchers to join the third online lecture “Identifiers as Open Science Infrastructure: ORCID, DOI, ROR, and Others,” which will be held as part of the course “Must-haves for Research Activities.”

Identifiers are the technical foundation of open science because they link scientific data, ensure transparency and reliability of results, and allow publications to be accurately linked to their authors, institutions, and data, increasing the visibility of research results.

Key aspects:

• What are personal identifiers for researchers (ORCID ID, Scopus Author ID, Web of Science ResearcherID, and Google Scholar Profile);
• How identifiers for publications and scientific journals work (DOI, ISBN, and ISSN);
• Identifiers for institutions and data (ROR ID, Dataset DOI, FAIR Data)

Speaker: Sofia Zherebchuk, Chief Librarian, Research Data Management Coordinator at the KPI Library.

Registration.

All registered participants will receive a link via email.

Online lecture “Searching for educational and scientific sources using AI technologies”

The KPI Library invites postgraduate students of Igor Sikorsky KPI and all interested researchers to join the second online lecture “Searching for educational and scientific sources using AI technologies,” which will be held as part of the course “Must-haves for research activities.”

The lecture is devoted to the practical mastery of AI tools (using the examples of Elicit, ResearchRabbit, SciSpace, and Semantic Scholar), which are radically changing the approach to searching, analyzing, and systematizing scientific and educational information.

Key aspects:

• The problem of information overload: why traditional search engines can no longer cope with the volume of scientific publications.
• How AI technologies are transforming the process of reviewing literature and searching for sources.
• A comparative analysis of the capabilities of Elicit, ResearchRabbit, SciSpace, and Semantic Scholar for optimizing the research process.

Speaker: Olena Kosmina, Head of the Department of Information Support for Education and Research at the KPI Library.

Registration.

All registered participants will receive a link to their email.

“Bricks in the walls of KPI buildings”

Friends, we have great news!

The lecture by local historian and Kyiv expert Oksana Salan on bricks will continue!

We are pleased to invite you to the second lecture in the series “Bricks in the Walls of KPI Buildings,” which will take place as part of the historical studies project “Think about it.”

We will continue our journey through the brick factories of Kyiv in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and discover new stories hidden within the walls of Kyiv Polytechnic University.

Join us, it will be interesting!