Andriy Zahorulko, Head of the Department of Computational Mechanics named after Volodymyr Martsynkovskyy, and Yaroslav Sapozhnikov, a PhD-student of the Department, took part in the 20th THRIBO-PPRIME WORKSHOP "High Performance Materials for Journal and Thrust Bearings", which took place on October 7-8, 2021 at Pprime Institute, Poitiers University. Poitiers, France, participating countries: France, Switzerland, USA, Ukraine, Poland, Germany, Italy, Austria, Russia, Denmark, Japan. During the discussion, a number of important issues were considered, which revealed the essence of the operation of bearings - new materials and methods to improve the performance of bearings, experimental and numerical studies, their dynamic behavior.