Innovative challenges: how Lviv Polytechnic implements educational programs for training specialists

Every year, innovative educational programs become more and more popular among entrants. While studying at the university, young people seek to learn about trendy majors and gain as much knowledge as possible. Oleh Davydchak, Vice-Rector for Graduate Education, talks about the introduction of innovative educational programs at Lviv Polytechnic and their relevance.

«The university constantly responds to the challenges and needs of the labour market, annually introducing new educational programs. In the 2021/2022 academic year, we opened nine bachelor’s and four master’s programs. Their main peculiarity is innovation. It is this criterion that is currently the most relevant on the market for the provision of educational services», said Vice-Rector.

EDUCATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL PROGRAMS OPENED IN THE 2021/2022 ACADEMIC YEAR

Oleh Davydchak also emphasized that modern youth strives to acquire quality knowledge and study innovative educational programs.

«The results of this year’s admission campaign show that the implemented educational programs are very popular among entrants. For example, the number of people willing to study major 122 «Computer Science» at Lviv Polytechnic is growing every year. In the 2021/2022 academic year, we decided to focus attention on separate areas of training in this major and introduced three educational programs at once: «Design and Programming of Intelligent Systems and Devices», «Computational Intelligence of Smart Systems», and «Artificial Intelligence Systems». Also this year, a new major «Hotel and Restaurant Business» has been opened at ISD. Among the entrants, this major was greatly in demand, so it got possible to form a full-fledged group of contract students. With the beginning of the war, specialists in aviation, rocket and space engineering became also in demand on the labour market. So this year, a new educational program was opened at Lviv Polytechnic – «Unmanned Aerial Vehicles» and we successfully recruited students under this program. The process of implementing innovative educational programs at Lviv Polytechnic continues. Currently, we are preparing for approval nine new educational programs. All details regarding this process will be known later», said Oleh Davydchak.