Oleksandr Povazhnyi, Rector of Metinvest Polytechnic technical university, talked about differences compared with state universities, plans for collaboration, the crisis in secondary education and the advantages of a private university at the Forbes University Forum hosted by Forbes Ukraine in Kyiv.The forum explored how business, universities, EdTech, and the state can develop human capital through partnerships and real-world projects. Topics included adapting universities to financing through private investment, creating educational products tailored to the needs of business, motivating students, transforming the role of lecturers in the age of AI and preparing education to meet the needs of veterans. The event brought together 36 speakers, including representatives from government, business, Ukrainian and international universities and other experts. Metinvest Group was the event’s general partner.Oleksandr Povazhnyi took part in the “Mission Possible: How Business and the State Ar

September 1st is a significant and emotional occasion both for children starting school for the first time and for their parents. Since 2012, Metinvest Group has been helping its employees prepare for Knowledge Day through the corporate programme “First Time – First Grade”.Вероніка КАРЕЛЬЦЕВА This year, nearly 400 children of Metinvest Iron Ore employees will begin the school year with joyful emotions: the company ensured they had the essential school supplies needed for learning – diaries, notebooks and folders for them, pens, pencils, brushes, paints, and more. Each family of an employee with a first-grade child received one of these stationery kits.Among the first-graders’ fathers is Oleksii Kareltsev from Northern Iron Ore Mining and Transport Shop-2 This year, his daughter Veronika is starting school for the first time, becoming the third schoolchild in the family of this Northern Iron Ore employee. Veronika’s older sisters are already attending school.“I liked everything very muc

Початок шкільного життя – великий день для маленьких сердець. Нові знайомства, знання, світ. Батьки хвилюються не менше, дивлячись, як їхні розумнички вперше переступають шкільний поріг. Усе це створює особливу атмосферу, яку хочеться зробити ще теплішою.Тринадцятий рік поспіль Метінвест підтримує своїх працівників у цей важливий для їхінх родин момент через корпоративну програму «Перший раз – в перший клас», допомагає створювати для дітлахів приємний старт шкільного життя, наповнений турботою та увагою. Цього року усі першачки Метінвесту також отримали від компанії яскраві набори канцелярського приладдя. В них є все, що потрібно для успішного старту у світі знань: щоденники, зошити разом із текою, ручки, олівці, пензлики, фарби тощо.Програма «Перший раз – в перший клас» охоплює не тільки українські підприємства Метінвесту, допомогу у підготовці дітей до світу знань отримують працівники заводу Промет Стіл у Болгарії, Spartan UK у Великій Британії, італійських підприємств Ferriera Vals

The story of the resilience and struggle of Ukraine’s largest industrial group is told in a special project by LIGA.net.Before the full-scale war, Metinvest Group accounted for 40% of Ukraine’s national steel exports and was the country’s largest private-sector employer.In the early 2000s, Metinvest built a vertically integrated business by consolidating Ukraine’s leading mining and steelmaking enterprises and embarked on an international expansion. Over the following years, the company invested more than US$2 billion in environmental modernisation and established a university to train a new generation of engineers.24 February 2022 changed everything. Russian aggression has caused direct damage worth US$3.5 billion to the company. Metinvest lost control of two key enterprises – Azovstal and Ilyich Steel Plant – in occupied Mariupol, which together accounted for almost half of its steelmaking capacity. In the beginning of 2025, due to the approach of the front line, it also had to susp

Молодих співробітників МБС заохотили мандрівкою на фестиваль до Львова. Наші колеги провели захопливий вікенд у перлині Заходу України, яке у 2025 році було «призначено» молодіжною столицею Європи, тому до свята там організували численні заходи.У середині серпня Львів зібрав сотні молодих українців, щоб вони поспілкувались та відпочили. Для них організували різні заходи – навчальні лекції та воркшопи, форуми й концерти, вуличні тематичні події, спортивні поєдинки, живе спілкування в діалогах та простори для зустрічей і натхнення. Заходи передбачали як розваги, так і серйозні ціннісноформуючі події, спрямовані на гуртування молодої спільноти заради горизонтів майбуття. Зокрема, на площі Ринок урочисто відкрили скульптуру молодіжної столиці. А також провели спільну недільну молитву єднання під відкритим небом у Митрополичих садах.Метінвест Бізнес Сервіс спорядив на заходи чотирьох учасниць молодіжної організації підприємства: провідного фахівця по роботі з персоналом групи найму та розв

Knowledge that is not used in practice has a tendency to be forgotten. If it concerns skills of proper response to emergency situations, unpractised actions may cost lives. In order to ensure that Zaporizhstal employees, who are part of pre-medical aid teams, can act confidently in emergency situations, refresher training with specialists from the Red Cross is organised regularly. FIGURE230 employees of pre-medical aid teams will undergo practical training from August to November"It is worth noting that they already have basic knowledge of how to provide pre-medical aid. However, they have training every year to refresh their skills. We repeat basic algorithms and practical skills to make sure that each employee acts confidently and properly without hesitation, and is able to save themselves or their colleagues," emphasized Denys MAZ, head of the occupational safety department. The training programme incorporates theory and practice. During the first phase, they will refresh their bas

Recognised mentors of Metinvest Central Iron Ore, together with vocational training instructors, have developed a comprehensive set of materials for new employees. The developed Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), working notes, as well as video and photographic materials will ensure the swift adaptation of newcomers in production. A distinctive feature of the materials is that they are intended specifically for Kolachevskyi Mine, as they take into account the particularities and conditions of the technological processes of this business unit.The need for modern, high-quality training materials has arisen against the backdrop of a severe workforce shortage, under which Metinvest’s iron ore works have been operating since the beginning of the war. In some business units, newcomers accounted for as much as 30% of the total intake. Among these business units is Kolachevskyi Mine of Metinvest Central Iron Ore, where, over the past year of rapid ramp-up to design capacity and increased p

On the occasion of Ukraine’s Independence Day, a ceremony honouring the fallen soldiers was held at the Tree of Remembrance in Zaporizhzhia.More than 60 new bells “spoke” with the voices of Heroes from Zaporizhzhia and the Zaporizhzhia region. “This Tree, this bell, is a reminder for the children, grandchildren, relatives and friends of the fallen defenders: they gave the most precious thing they had so that we may live in a free and Independent Ukraine. We must be grateful to them, honour their heroism, and pass on the memory of the Heroes to future generations of Ukrainians,” said Tetiana HORBACHOVA.Tetiana, widow of the fallen Zaporizhstal serviceman Vitalii Horbachov, attended the memorial ceremony accompanied by her daughter, Valeriia. The family hangs a bell on the Tree of Remembrance, believing that Vitalii is still with them.“It is incredibly difficult to accept that our father, husband, and friend is no longer by our side. It is significant that our city has such installation

Zaporizhstal of Metinvest Group, in line with its annual capital investment programme, continues to carry out comprehensive major overhauls of three groups of soaking pits (with four pits in each group) in the slab section of the hot rolling shop. The total amount of investments exceeds UAH 135 million."Today, Zaporizhstal operates at only 75% of its production capacity. Nevertheless, we are carrying out the maintenance and repair programme for production equipment in full. In particular, a major upgrade of the soaking pits is currently underway; they are an important link in the technological process of hot rolling at Zaporizhstal. The quality of finished steel products, mechanical properties of rolled steel, and compliance with standards and customer requirements depend on stable temperature conditions and uniform billet heating in the pits," said Taras SHEVCHENKO, Acting General Director of Zaporizhstal and Hero of Ukraine. FIGURETotal amount of investments in major overhauls of so

Heroes do not die while we cherish memory of them in our hearts and show respect in our deeds. Дар’я МОСКОВЕЦЬ In peacetime, Volodymyr Moskovets from Zaporizhzhia worked as a refractory specialist at Zaporizhvognetryv, and together with his beloved wife Daria raised a son Oleksii. He was interested in old-style cars. Volodymyr built plans for the future, dreaming about another child, his own house, and travel. His dreams and the joyful future of his family with arms. From the first days of the full-scale invasion, Volodymyr volunteered to defend Ukraine. "He headed to the military office on 26 February 2022. He said that he was going to the front so that the front would not come to us, to his family, to his home. No matter how much I tried to dissuade him, but he firmly decided because he could not act differently. I respect his choice and I am very proud of my hero," said Daria MOSKOVETS, Volodymyr's wife. In peacetime, Volodymyr Moskovets from Zaporizhzhia worked as a refractory spe