On November 7-8, 2024, Ivan Franko Lviv National University organized and held the international student CTF (Capture-the-Flag) competition for the second time in partnership with Ukrainian educational institutions and representatives of Ukrainian IT companies. Lviv accepted students who are in Ukraine and those who study abroad and study IT, computer science, cyber security and AI. Since the competition platform is provided in English, Mykola Dmytrovych Polonskyi, a senior teacher of the Department of English at ESITC, conducted the necessary consultations regarding the lexical and grammatical difficulties of business English. Students were also instructed on how to avoid speech pitfalls during the competition. The best students of the UBD-22 group of the Educational-Scientific Institute of Cyber ​​Security and Information Protection represented the university in two teams: Myroslav Krylevych and Vitaly Kondratyuk – offline, and online team: Roman Konoval and Andriy Veretyokhin.

CTF – the competition is an important event and is held with the aim of increasing the level of knowledge and acquiring skills in the field of cyber security, which is a priority goal of the Cyber ​​Security Strategy of Ukraine in ensuring regular cyber education and training, exchange of experience and best practices with international partners.