Lviv Polytechnic now has another space where students can work, create and relax. On 29 November, the official opening of the student space L.I.S. – Learning Inspiring Space – took place in the first academic building.
– This place is an example of how the ideas and dreams of our young people help Lviv Polytechnic to become better and create an environment with new opportunities for students. We are extremely pleased that in 2018, a group of students majoring in the Internet of Things program at the Institute of Computer Technologies, Automation and Metrology, Lviv Polytechnic, approached us with the idea of creating such a coworking space for students. The leaders among them were Andrii Stashkiv and Nikita Kyseliov. Today we can appreciate the work that has been done since then. But we will really succeed when this space is filled with students – for studying, for activities and for recreation. I wish you success and new achievements, said in his welcome speech Professor Yuriy Bobalo, Acting Rector of Lviv Polytechnic.
The Head of Lviv Polytechnic Development Centre, Andriana Mazur, expressed gratitude to everyone who contributed to the implementation of the L.I.S. student space:
– We are happy to have a student space that we believe will become an environment of unity, inspiration and development for our youth and academic community. We are sincerely grateful to our partners who helped us to implement this project: Jacob Dalhoff, CEO, MatchOffice Ukraine, the team of Service Ukraine LLC, and Yaroslav Karashetsky, founder of KARASHETSKYY Architects, who, in particular, was responsible for the formation of the space concept, design project, and support for its implementation. We are proud to have had the opportunity to contribute to the development of our university in such cooperation. I would like to expressed gratitude to the entire Lviv Polytechnic team who joined and helped us along the way: the Department of Marketing and its head Iryna Romanovska for your inexhaustible creativity, to Ihor Hnets, Head of the Department of Architectural Constructions, for the architectural planning of the space, to Viktor Shtets and the team of the Department of Visual Design and Art for the development of our beautiful logo. Special thanks to the entire team of the Training and Production Department led by Vice-Rector Volodymyr Krayovskyy and the Technopark team led by Andriy Stoianovskyi for the tremendous work you have put into it.
Jacob Dalhoff, CEO, MatchOffice Ukraine, who has been cooperating with Lviv Polytechnic for more than two years and has become a true friend, liked the idea of coworking.
– The University is engraved in my heart because I have been cooperating with Lviv Polytechnic for a long time. When I first saw this place, I realised that we could create a student space here. I remember the years when I was a student, and it was the best time. So now I wanted to help young people so that they could have more opportunities while studying. Our youth is our future. And thanks to our cooperation, we have managed to do this using a forest concept to shape this space, said Jacob Dahlhof.
The L.I.S. student space will also host a Tutoring and Mentoring Centre. This collaboration will help give the space another meaning – to provide additional services and engage capable and proactive students in different activities for their development and self-realization.
– It is common for computer scientists to meet for a coffee to discuss work projects. That’s why our students wanted to have such a space for themselves. The separate space of the Tutoring and Mentoring Centre will complement this student space well, as it is also intended for our youth. The purpose of this Centre is to select the most active students who want to develop leadership skills and opportunities, to organize and guide them. Therefore, the organization of the student space is very promising and of high quality, said Professor Oleh Matviikiv, First Vice-Rector of Lviv Polytechnic National University.
Nataliia Bokla, Head of the Tutoring and Mentoring Centre, expressed gratitude for the support and the opportunity to grow new leaders in such a convenient space, and also noted the students who had completed the T&M PROMENT program, having developed 12 mentoring and tutoring schemes.
