FINAL

The final of the Main Season of CASE‑IN is still ahead. 

Project

What is a CASE-IN? This is a large-scale team competition for university students from Russia and the CIS countries. Boring tests are not solved here — teams compete to find the best solutions for real engineering problems (cases). The participant's path begins with the qualifying stages at his native university, passes through remote semi-finals and leads to the grand final in Moscow.

Our goal:

We are looking for talented students, helping them gain practical experience and upgrade competencies that will not be given in theory. The project opens doors to the largest companies in the fuel and energy and mineral resource complexes, the nuclear industry and related industries.

Objectives of the championship:

  • Your career springboard: We have created the largest platform where students of any profile meet with business leaders, experts and government representatives.
  • Real-world practice: More than 20,000 participants annually try themselves out as real engineers, solving production tasks using the "case method" method.
  • Your ideas are in action: We involve young people in solving urgent industrial problems — the best proposals can be heard by industry leaders.

The theme of the 2026 season: "Technologies of the future"

When: From February to May 2026.

Who can participate?

Students of any specialty and field under the age of 25 inclusive.

Championship directions (branches)

Choose what is closest to you.:

Architecture, design, construction and housing and communal services Biotechnologies Geological exploration Mining Mining machinery and equipment Metallurgy Oil and gas business Petrochemicals Project engineering Thermal power engineering Digital automation Electric power industry

The semifinals will be held in the following directions:

ELECTRIC POWER INDUSTRY_Rosseti – April 23rd

ELECTRIC POWER INDUSTRY_The system operator of the Unified Energy System – April 24th

OIL AND GAS BUSINESS – April 28


Are you ready to build a technological future? We are waiting for you!

Rules of the Finals

Rules of the CIS Qualifying stages

Rules of work of the Expert Commission

The rules of the Qualifying stages Russia

Semi-finals rules

Instructions for registration of CASE-IN participants

Instructions for registration of CASE-IN experts

The schedule of the qualifying stages of the Student League in 2026

Student League
Project geography:
The Russian Federation and the CIS countries
Dates of the event:

February - May 2026

1
Registration

No later than 15 days before the qualifying stage

To become a participant in the largest engineering case championship, it is necessary to form a team of 3 to 4 people and complete individual registration.

Registration takes place in 2 (two) stages:

Creation of a personal account on the website of the Reliable Shift Charitable Foundation;

Registration for the Student League with the choice of the required course and direction.

After the registration procedure, each participant receives a task (case) and methodological materials by e-mail (through which the registration was completed) within the time limits set by the Organizers.

2
Sending the case

7-10 days before the university qualifying stage

The teams registered for the qualifying stage are sent an engineering case (to the email address specified during registration), which must be solved, as well as a presentation of their solution for defense before the expert commission at the qualifying stage of the Student League of the International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN"®

3
Qualifying stage

According to the schedule of the Championship

During the qualifying stage, the team defends its case solution to the experts of the Championship and other participating teams. Based on the results of each face-to-face qualifying stage in each field (Geological exploration, Mining, Metallurgy, Petrochemistry, Oil and Gas, Electric power, Design engineering, Thermal power engineering, Architecture, design, construction and housing and communal services), 1 is determined based on an expert assessment and rating for participation in the next stage (final or semi-final*). (one) team from OOVO (1st place). If an outside team takes the 1st-2nd place, it also goes to the next stage. According to the results of the open qualifying stage in the field of "Mining machinery and equipment", up to 14 teams will be invited to the final stage.

4
Semi-finals

According to the schedule of the Championship

They are held only if more than 14 teams are determined according to the industry direction based on the results of the qualifying stages. Based on the results of the Semi-final stage, 10 teams will be selected to participate in the final.

5
The final

It is being announced

The winners of the semi-final stages gather at the grand final venue in Moscow. The final stage includes case defenses, educational events, workshops to improve personal effectiveness, and partner events where leading industry employers gather to meet with the finalists, who have a unique opportunity to learn about the company firsthand. A special event of the Finals is always the awarding of the winners, who receive their awards from the hands of the management of companies and departments.

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