On 23–26 June 2025, Lviv Polytechnic National University hosted the 5th traditional International Conference on Chemical Technology and Engineering.
Professor Yurii Bobalo, Chairman of the Conference Programme Committee, Rector of Lviv Polytechnic in 2007–2025; Professor Volodymyr Atamaniuk, Chairman of the Organising Committee, Head of the Department of Chemical Engineering; Professor Nataliya Chukhray, Vice-Rector for Education and International Relations; Professor Ivan Demydov, Vice-Rector for Scientific Research; Professor Volodymyr Skorokhoda, Director of the Institute of Chemistry and Chemical Technologies, and other invited guests attended the opening ceremony.
A special event of this year’s conference was the presentation of the 2019 Nobel Laureate Professor Michael Stanley Whittingham (USA). The scientific meeting also featured plenary presentations by Dr Svitlana Krakovska (Ukraine), Professor Viktor Hacker (Austria), Professor Igor Plazl (Slovenia), Professor Alice Mija (France), Professor Goran Krajacic (Croatia) and Dr Oleksandr Ivashchuk (Ukraine).
The conference programme included 84 presentations in 7 sections thematically dedicated to various areas and aspects of chemical technology and engineering. One of the sections, Innovations, Nanotechnology and Catalysis in the Chemical and Food Industries, was dedicated to the 75th anniversary of Professor Zorian Pikh.
The conference also featured the Young Chemist School, held this year as a workshop within the framework of the Horizon Europe INITIATE project on R&D challenges in modern universities. The speakers of the workshop were Dr Marko Mimica (Croatia), Professor Roman Nebesnyi (Ukraine), Oleksii Kurylo and Nina Bulbotka (Enzym Group, Ukraine).
This year’s co-organisers of the conference were:
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Lviv Polytechnic National University (Ukraine);
- Łukasiewicz Research Network – Institute of New Chemical Synthesis (Poland);
- Faculty of Chemical and Process Engineering, Warsaw University of Technology (Poland);
- Department of Information Technology and Environmental Quality Research, Warsaw University of Technology (Poland);
- Institute of Chemistry of Nice, University of the Côte d’Azur (France);
- Scientific Society of Students, Doctoral Candidates and Young Researchers, Lviv Polytechnic National University (Ukraine);
- Lviv Polytechnic Alumni Association (Ukraine);
- Western Scientific Centre of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine (Ukraine).
The conference organising committee expresses its gratitude to everyone who contributed to the organisation and holding of the event and invites you to participate in the following scientific events!
