On September 1, 2016 hundreds of first-year students (freshmen), parents, professors, university staff and guests gathered at the University Stadium for the solemn matriculation ceremony.
The solemn ceremony began with the raising of the national flag of Ukraine, and singing of the national anthem. However, the first words of welcome have been marred by the mention of the participation of our teachers and students in the ATO in Eastern Ukraine. The audience paid tribute to fallen students of the University – Roman Zozulia and Andrii Proshak, who defended our Homeland, by a minute of silence.
Rector of the university, Prof. Yevstahii Kryzhanivskyi congratulated the first-year students with the new stage of their lives and wished them a great year and all the best under the peaceful sky. Among the guests present at the matriculation ceremony were many official representatives of the town and regional administrations, heads of the Ukrainian oil and gas companies and Archbishop-Metropolitan of Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.
On September 9, 2016 the working meeting of the partners from Sweden and participants from the Ivano-Frankivsk National Technical University of Oil and Gas took place in the framework of the project "National Education Framework for Enhancing IT Students’ Innovation and Entrepreneurship" (NEFESIE). The Director of the Institute of Information Technologies I.
On August 31, 2016 the graduate of the Ivano-Frankivsk National Technical University of Oil and Gas, world – famous Ukrainian economist, PhD, assistant professor of economics at the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University and a specialist in experimental economics and game theory, with applications to behavioral economics, conflict resolution, industrial organization, and public and labor economics Roman Sheremeta visited the University. Sheremeta is one of the top-rated young economists in the world and is listed as a Top Economic Thinker of Ukrainian descent by FORBES. Roman Sheremeta serves as an associate editor at the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.
