Creation of a Defense School at KAI

On July 7, 2025, the first working meeting on the organization of the KAI Defense School for small and medium-sized businesses was held at the Educational and Scientific Institute of Continuing Education (NNINO). The meeting was attended by many guests and future speakers of the KAI School, namely:

• TKACH Natalia – Deputy Director of the Department (Center) for the Provision of Administrative Services of the Executive Body of the Kyiv City Council, ARTYOMOVA Tetyana – Doctor of Economics, Chief Researcher of the State Institution “Institute of Economics and Forecasting of the NAS of Ukraine”,
• KUCHERENKO Diana – Associate Professor, Candidate of Economics, Director of the Research Institute of Socio-Economic Development (Kyiv), Vice President of the East European Center for Fundamental Research (Prague, Czech Republic),
• LOZOVSKY Yuriy – Vice President of the SPMSPPU, Advisor to the Business Center “Initiative – 90”,
• SHEVTSOVA Tetyana – Vice President of the SPMSPPU, General Director of the Audit Company “KAPITAL PLUS”, MOROZ Svitlana – Member of the Council of the State University of Economics and Business Administration, Managing Partner of the Law Company “DIKTUM”, Candidate of Laws, Representative of the State University of Economics and Business Administration in Turkey,
• KRAVCHENKO Olga – Doctor of Economics, Associate Professor, Professor of the Department of Economics and Business Technologies of the State University of Economics and Business Administration “KAI”, LYADSKYI Igor – Candidate of Economics, Senior Lecturer of the Department of Marketing of the Poltava State Agrarian University, SHMELYOVA Tetyana – Doctor of Engineering, Professor of the Department of Aeronautical Systems of the State University of Economics and Business Administration “KAI”,
• OSTAPENKO Tetyana – Doctor of Economics, Associate Professor, Professor of the Department of Economics and Business Technologies of the State University of Economics and Business Administration “KAI”,
• TURLO Yuriy – Candidate of Economics, Associate Professor of the Department of Economics and Business Technologies of the State University of Economics and Business Administration “KAI”.

NNINO was represented by the Deputy Director Aram DANIELIAN and head of the laboratory Oleksandr TARASENKO.

During a fruitful discussion, it was determined that the main direction of the Defense School should be the conditions for the creation and development of entrepreneurship in the defense sector. It was agreed that the School will provide knowledge and skills in the field of small and medium-sized businesses, namely in the field of defense technologies, which are a scientific and applied feature for such a higher educational institution as the Kyiv Aviation Institute.