The finalist teams of the Special ECO-CASE League of the CASE-IN Championship have been determined

15 teams became finalists of the Special ECO-CASE League, which was held in a remote format within the framework of The International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN». The project is included in the Presidential Platform "Russia is a land of opportunity".

During the qualifying stages, the teams had to solve an engineering case on the development of new cost-effective and environmentally friendly technologies in the nuclear energy industry, as well as the creation of an infrastructure to process nuclear waste and involve its useful components in other areas of activity.

The remote qualifying stages were held in 5 cities: Nizhny Novgorod, Voronezh, Minsk, St. Petersburg, Moscow.

The participants of the competition were future specialists in the field of ecology, nuclear energy, nuclear industry, petrochemistry, and technosphere safety from educational institutions in Russia and Belarus, including Nizhny Novgorod State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Voronezh State University of Engineering Technologies, Belarusian State Technological University, National Research University (MEI), and St. Petersburg State Institute of Technology. and others .

According to the results of the qualifying stages, the top three winners of each qualifying round reached the finals.

The winners of the qualifying stage in Nizhny Novgorod:

1st place: teamOptimum (Tomsk Polytechnic University);

2nd place: the "Safety" team (Tolyatti State University),

3rd place: The Eco-Frontier team (Omsk State Agrarian University named after P.A. Stolypin).

The winners of the qualifying stage in Voronezh:

1st place: team "Mendeleev's Second Dream" (Voronezh State University of Engineering Technologies);

2nd place: the team "MPC" (Volgograd State University);

3rd place: the team The "Inconvenient truth" (Southwestern State University).

"Our team proposed a thermonuclear reactor based on the principle of a particle accelerator with a deuterium-tritium reaction as an optimal solution. This technology is waste-free, safe to operate, and an unlimited supply of fuel will allow you to obtain cheap energy for a billion years.
The most interesting things in solving the case were the process of benchmarking existing reactors, generating ideas and finding the best solution. The economic part turned out to be the most difficult for us, since the proposed technology is currently not widely used and will be implemented in the near future only as part of an experiment.", – shared your impressions of the qualifying stage members of the MPK team.

The winners of the qualifying stage in Minsk:

1st place: Technoecosphere team (Belarusian State University of Transport);

2nd place: Ecobudge team (Belarusian State Technological University);

3rd place: inBLBT team (Belarusian National Technical University).

Winners of the qualifying stage in Moscow:

1st place:team"Progress" (Russian State Geological Exploration University named afterSergo Ordzhonikidze);

2nd place: GreenLawn team (National Research University" (MEI));

3rd place: "SIA" team (Moscow State Pedagogical University).

"Participation in the Special League competition CASE-INThe "ECO-CASE" turned out to be a completely new experience. A difficult case, a large amount of work and short deadlines required good coordination and operational solutions. It was the teamwork that led us to an interesting solution and allowed us to take a fresh look at various environmental and economic problems of nuclear energy and achieve success.", – noted Ilya Elmanov, captain of the SIA team.

The winners of the qualifying stage in St. Petersburg:

1st place: AVA team (Tomsk Polytechnic University);

2nd place: the ITRT team (Saint Petersburg State Institute of Technology (Technical University));

3rd place: the "Luminous" team (NUST MISIS).

"The task of the case was to improve the environmental safety and economic efficiency of nuclear power plants. Our team has proposed a solution, the essence of which is the introduction of a laser cutting unit for fuel assemblies and fuel rods into the recycling process. This solution will allow us to get one step closer to closing the nuclear fuel cycle.
For our team, the most interesting thing was the design of the solution and the presentation of the project, because all the illustrations in it were drawn by us. The most difficult thing was to choose the right one from several ideas and solutions.", " She told me Anastasia Rif, the captain of the team from Tomsk "AVA".

The final of the Special League will be held in a one-day format in December 2020 in an online format. The best engineering solutions presented by the teams at the Finals will be recommended for inclusion in the the national project "Ecology".

The league is held with the grant support of Rosatom State Corporation.

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Autonomous Non-profit Organization (ANO) "Russia – the land of opportunities"It was established by the decree of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin dated May 22, 2018. The key objectives of the organization are to create conditions for increasing social mobility, ensuring personal and professional self-realization of citizens, as well as creating effective social elevators in Russia.

ANO "Russia – the land of Opportunities" is developing a platform of the same name that unites 18 projects: the Leaders of Russia management competition, the student Olympiad "I am a Professional", the international competition "My First Business", the All–Russian competition "Volunteer of Russia", the Professional Training project, the Russian Student Spring festival, and the Grant Competition youth Initiatives", the "Digital Breakthrough" competition, the SME Business Navigator portal, the "RDS - Territory of Self–government" competition, the Abilimpix professional skills competition among people with disabilities, the All-Russian youth management cup "Manage!", the "Thank You" appreciation campaign, the "Young Professionals" movement (WorldSkills Russia), the charity project "Dream with me", the competition "League of Counselors", the competition "My country is my Russia" and the international engineering championship "CASE-IN".

International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN" − this is an international competition system for solving engineering cases among schoolchildren, students and young specialists in the fuel and energy and mineral resource complexes.

The organizers of the Championship − Reliable Change Foundation, Non-profit Partnership "Youth Forum of Mining Leaders" and AstraLogica LLC.

The co-organizer of the Electric Power Industry direction of the Student League "CASE-IN" is the Association "Russian National Committee of the International Council for Large High Voltage Electrical Systems».

The Championship is being implemented in accordance with the Action Plan aimed at popularizing the working and engineering professions, approved by Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 366-r dated March 5, 2015.

Since 2018, the Championship has been included in the All-Russian Youth Action Plan aimed at popularizing the fuel and energy complex, energy conservation and engineering education, approved jointly Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation, Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation and Federal Agency for Youth Affairs .

The championship was organized using a grant from the President of the Russian Federation for the development of civil society provided by the Presidential Grants Fund.

The championship is held with the support of leading fuel and energy complex and MSK companies, including 
JSC SO UES, PJSC AK ALROSA, PJSC Tatneft, PJSC SIBUR Holding, GC ROSATOM, PJSC FGC UES, LLC Mikromain Rus, PJSC NLMK, JSC Siberian Anthracite, United Company RUSAL, LLC EvrazHoldingRaspadskaya Coal Company LLC, Siberian Generating Company LLC, KREDO-DIALOG COMPANY LLC, PJSC RusHydro, Prosoft-Systems LLC, etc. and others.

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