The Reliable Shift Foundation was established in 2007 and trains young people to work at enterprises in the fuel and energy and mineral resource complexes.The Foundation carries out educational and career guidance projects for young people from high school to young professionals and acts as a link between employers, universities and future engineers.
The director of the foundation, Artyom Korolev, talks about the work of the foundation.
– What does the Reliable Shift Foundation do?
– In simple terms, today the Reliable Change Foundation is engaged in selecting, evaluating and preparing young people to work in companies for the benefit of our country.
The Fund was established on the initiative of JSC "System Operator of the Unified Energy System" with the main task of assisting in the training of future specialists in the electric power industry. By 2014, the foundation had effectively implemented the School– University – Enterprise project, aimed at career guidance for schoolchildren, facilitating the admission of the best of them to specialized universities and further employment in branches of JSC SO UES and other energy companies.
The results obtained allowed us to think about expanding the fund's activities to other sectors of the fuel and energy and mineral resource complexes. This task required the involvement of new people in the fund, the expansion of educational programs and the launch of new projects.
To date, the foundation has confidently established itself as one of the key developers and operators of educational, practice-oriented and youth projects for schoolchildren, students, young scientists and employees of enterprises of the fuel and energy complex and the mineral resource complex.
Engineering education is becoming a trend today. The president and the government of the country speak about the need for its development. The Ministry of Education states that in 2015, the admission targets for engineering specialties increased, and more and more young people realize that obtaining an engineering specialty opens up great prospects for them.
I believe that so far little has been done to promote engineering education. Young people don't have heroes, idols to look up to, or bright examples. There is no clear career path for everyone. Today's schoolchildren and students can hardly imagine what their professional career as a mining engineer or power engineer will look like, or imagine who they will become in this profession in ten or twenty years. Not all industry companies promote themselves as attractive employers, so future specialists do not know what it is like to work at the enterprises of a particular company, even if they are familiar with its name.
Aware of these problems, the foundation tries to work with stakeholders from federal and regional ministries, as well as directly with young people. We are proving and showing young people that it is fashionable to be an engineer today, and we are trying to convey our position on the need for a comprehensive youth policy to industry leaders.
– With what results did the fund end 2015 and what, in your opinion, will 2016 be like?
– In 2015, the foundation implemented ten large system programs, in which almost ten thousand schoolchildren, students and young professionals from almost all regions of our country participated.
The foundation's projects are interconnected, which allows partner companies to monitor talented students from various angles. Watch them solve engineering cases, work in teams at summer educational forums, and present their project to the Minister of Energy.
We are especially proud of the federal projects that are being implemented with the support of government agencies and included in various departmental plans. The support of the Ministry of Education and Science, the Ministry of Energy, Rosmolodezh and other departments proves that we are on the right track, that our activities are really in demand and help the state solve the tasks of developing the human resources potential of key industries.
2016 promises to be a difficult year. Seriously, despite the current difficult situation, we are increasing our project potential. In 2014-2015, we worked more with companies from the electric power and mining sectors, but this year we are planning large-scale projects with partners from the oil and gas sector and metallurgy.
Of course, our key projects will also be implemented: the Youth Energy Forum and energy groups for schoolchildren in partnership with JSC SO UES; the Mining School Forum with JSC SUEK; the ENES Youth Day with the Ministry of Energy of Russia; case solving championships, the largest of which I will discuss further.
We also plan to actively develop our competencies in developing engineering cases, unique practical tasks that we have tested over the years in working with schoolchildren, students and young professionals. I'm not afraid to say that today, except for us, no one makes such a product. Over the years, many universities and individual companies use our cases in the process of training specialists. Due to the fact that the case is prepared on the basis of materials from a real enterprise and contains an urgent task, participants need to really take a comprehensive approach to its solution: prepare a technological solution, calculate the economy, suggest a place to apply innovations, finally, make a high-quality presentation of the solution and defend it before an expert commission.
– What will the Fuel and energy case solving championship show?
– I am glad to inform you that the championship has started: on February 25, the grand opening of the mining league took place in Belgorod, and on March 1 in Irkutsk will be given a start to four more championship leagues. And this is a really qualitatively changed project. First of all, we changed the name of the championship, because the previous one no longer reflected the full scale of our common achievements. The new name is the International Engineering Championship "Case-In". Secondly, the championship now consists of five full-fledged areas (leagues): electric power industry, mining, geological exploration, metallurgy and oil and gas business. In this regard, we are expecting a grandiose fifteen-week marathon of 77 qualifying stages at the sites of 37 leading universities in three countries. Eight new universities joined the championship, and this is not the limit!
We are pleased to note that our regular partners have joined the championship again.: JSC SO UES, JSC SUEK, LLC SGK, JSC MHC EuroChem, IMC Montan, Micromine, LLC EvrazHolding, JSC Rosgeologiya, Sverdlovsk branch of PJSC T Plus, JSC Yuzhuralzoloto, LLC Dassault System Geovia RUS. New companies have also joined the project.: PJSC Tatneft, Sakhalin Energy Investment Company Ltd., PJSC FGC UES, JSC Siberian Anthracite, PJSC MMC Norilsk Nickel, PJSC Irkutskenergo.
As always, the championship should yield practical results: we are confident that very soon the participants of the "CASE-IN" will receive exclusive offers on internship and employment in the announced partner companies of the championship.
The championship continues to confirm its status as the only one in Russia's Federal Case Championship: we are supported by five federal ministries.
– What new projects will be implemented by the foundation this year?
– There are quite a lot of them. This year we have significantly expanded our work with schoolchildren. Ideally, we want to build a system in which we will provide career guidance, grow and look for talents among students in grades 7-11. At the same time, projects and programs of various complexity have already been launched or are being planned for each age; that is, by joining the foundation for the first time in the 7th grade, the participant gets a unique opportunity to grow in the energy environment: to learn new things, participate in competitions, go to university for special educational programs, attend excursions and much more. It is for this purpose that, in a pilot mode, together with the Global Energy non-profit partnership, we launched the All-Russian Start Energy competition. The competition is designed to interest Russian schoolchildren in the topic of energy and motivate the most promising high school students to master this profession. About a thousand students of grades 7-10 of Russian schools from more than fifteen regions from Moscow to Transbaikalia participate in the competition.
The competition will provide clear practical results for the participants and the Russian energy industry: the best participants will be included in the training program for admission to specialized energy universities and included in the promising talent pool of Russian energy companies.
In addition, together with JSC SUEK, we are developing a pilot championship among students of secondary vocational schools, which will initially cover three regions: Khabarovsk and Trans-Baikal Territories and Kuzbass.
– What distinguishes the participants of the foundation's projects?
– First of all, they all have a strong resume. Within the framework of each project, we try to make sure that even simple participation gives the guys an incentive for further personal and professional growth. We issue certificates and diplomas signed by industry leaders to our participants. Writing in the resume about participation and especially about winning our projects gives the guys a serious handicap among other job applicants.
Those who have passed our school of case championships are, in my opinion, like elite troops. They need less time to adapt to their new job, they are familiar with industry issues from the inside, and they have a whole set of skills they need today. I'll even say this: today, the "fund workers", to whom we refer the guys who are the winners of our projects, those who participate in our programs from year to year, in fact, constitute the leading group of the personnel reserve for the fuel and energy complex and the mineral resource complex.
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