From 23 October to 4 December 2025, students majoring in International Economic Relations and International Law took part in the interdisciplinary COUL project Competitive Policy of the EU, which aimed to combine economic and legal approaches to analysing the European Union's competition policy

Bai Lu, a PhD candidate at the Educational and Scientific Institute of International Relations of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, has successfully defended her dissertation and obtained the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in specialty 291 “International Relations, Public Communications and Regional Studies”

First-year students of the International Law program, accompanied by faculty from the Department of Comparative and European Law, visited the Babyn Yar National Historical and Memorial Reserve to attend the international exhibition "State of Deception: The Power of Nazi Propaganda," developed in collaboration with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC

On December 1, 2025, with the assistance of the Department of International Organizations and the Diplomatic Service of Educational and Scientific Institute of International Relations of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, a practical professional meeting was held with Mrs. Natalia NIKYFORAK, Deputy Director of the State Protocol Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine

Valeriy Kopiika, Director of the Institute of International Relations and Diplomacy, gave an interview to International Policy Digest, in which he spoke about his experience as a military translator in Congo and how this experience shaped his understanding of diplomacy and crisis management. He emphasised that working in a conflict and multinational environment laid the foundation for the approaches that are now used in training students at the Institute