Dual education in the DTEK Kyiv Regional Grids: 54% of students continue their carrier in the DSO

Thermal power generation21 January 2025

DTEK Kyiv Regional Grids continues to support education development and strengthen connection between science and production, providing the company with qualified specialists, who chose energy industry to be their profession. In 2024, the company continued implementing modern practices of dual education, which allows students to get their first experience in the profession of energy worker. A total of 81 students from leadings technical colleges and universities of Ukraine took advantage of the opportunities provided by dual education. Over half of these students continue their career development in the company.

Dual education in the DTEK Kyiv Regional Grids: 54% of students continue their carrier in the DSO

In 2024, three more educational institutions joined cooperation with DTEK Kyiv Regional Grids: National Aviation University, Myrohoshcha Agrarian Professional College and SSU “Kyiv Professional Municipal Economy College” of the Vernadskyi Tavriia National University.

“We are sure: the future of the energy industry is in the talented youth. Our goal is to create conditions for young specialists to find their professional path, implement ideas and develop innovations. By cooperating with 6 colleges and 6 universities, we build reliable foundation for development of dual education, supporting students on their path to a successful career. Together, we form a team capable of modernizing the Ukrainian grids and implementing sophisticated solutions for energy independence of the country,” — noted Vitalii Shaida, CEO at DTEK Kyiv Regional Grids.

Thanks to the dual education project, an educational initiative has been implemented in 2024. VR simulators for training of future energy workers were handed over within the framework of cooperation with the “National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine”.

Dual education allows attracting applicants and choosing the best of them for further employment. Program graduates mostly stay to work in the company – 54% of students, who combined study and work in the DSO, continue their career development in the DTEK Kyiv Regional Grids. Thus, after graduation from the Kyiv National University of Construction and Architecture, Maksym Sokulskyi began working at DTEK Kyiv Regional Grids under the dual education program at the position of an electrician. As a result, a year later he got a promotion and became testing and measuring engineer.

Other young energy workers had the same successful career path. In 2025, DTEK Kyiv Regional Grids plans to expand dual education project, attract new educational institutions and create even more opportunities for the students to get practical experience in the modern energy sector.