Solidgate Scholarship Recipient Announced!

A NaUKMA student who builds drones and raises millions for the army has received Solidgate’s first STEM scholarship.

Danylo Beha, a first-year student at the Faculty of Informatics at NaUKMA, has become the recipient of the first STEM scholarship from Solidgate, an international fintech company with Ukrainian roots. He will receive UAH 12,000 every month for one year.

Solidgate is a payment orchestrator whose infrastructure processes millions of transactions every day for Bolt, Nova Post, Ajax, MEGOGO, and hundreds of other companies. In cooperation with the Kyiv-Mohyla Foundation, Solidgate launched a STEM scholarship for students of the Faculty of Informatics at NaUKMA. One student will receive UAH 12,000 every month for one year. At Solidgate, they do not wait for fully formed specialists — the company takes part in training them. Solidgate cooperates with leading universities, gives lectures, holds workshops, sponsors teams at hackathons and academic competitions, hires students, and offers internships. The company sincerely believes that young people are the ones building the future of Ukraine’s tech industry.

The scholarship follows the same logic: to support students during their studies, when such support brings real value. The requirements include being a first- to third-year student, having a GPA of 90+, and demonstrating meaningful extracurricular involvement, such as academic competitions, hackathons, projects, or student organizations.

The first recipient is Danylo Beha, a first-year Computer Science student.

“I am sincerely grateful to Solidgate for this opportunity! This wonderful scholarship will allow me to finance the projects my team and I are working on in the laboratory. They say that if a person has a certain opportunity, they must do everything possible to give that opportunity to those who do not have it. I share the same goal, so I will do everything I can to ensure that more ‘Solidgate scholarships’ and opportunities for students appear over time,” says Danylo.

His candidacy stood out both for his academic achievements — a score of 200 in mathematics on the National Multi-Subject Test and a presidential scholarship — and for what he does beyond his studies. During his two years as president at his lyceum, he and his team raised one million hryvnias for the Armed Forces of Ukraine. He also co-founded the FPV Robotics Lab at Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, which, in just six months of existence, has already won first place at the national RoboSumo robotics competition and has won drone competitions among universities across the country. The laboratory is now preparing for international competitions in Canada as the first Ukrainian team in this format.

Danylo plans to invest the scholarship funds in the laboratory, as his personal expenses are already covered by his presidential scholarship.