NRU "MEI" will host the qualifying stages of the "CASE-IN" in two directions

On February 26, the IX season of the international engineering championship "CASE-IN", one of the projects of the presidential platform, started in Moscow.Russia is a land of opportunity". This year, participants will be able to try themselves in more industries: from mining to "project engineering". The new season will be dedicated to the theme of "Sustainable Development" of Russia.

The championship competitions will be held from February to May in five leagues: the School League, the League of Working Specialties, the Student League, the League of Young Professionals and the Special League. Future and young engineers will have to develop case solutions on the topics of fuel and energy and mineral resource complexes, nuclear industry and related industries.

In the new season, NRU MEI will become the site of the Student League of the championship for solving two cases "Electric Power Industry" and "Digital Atom" from leading Russian companies in the energy sector.

"There are a lot of new things waiting for the participants in the main season this year. The changes will affect both the School, the Student, and the League of Young Professionals. At the same time, we will maintain our mentoring program for the participants of the championship. It will also include the opportunity to get into the Senezh Management Workshop, which conducts dozens of different training courses and programs. The practice of motivating meetings between participants and the winners and finalists of the Leaders of Russia Management Competition will also continue- said the Deputy General Director of ANO "Russia ― the land of opportunities" Alexey Agafonov at the TASS press conference dedicated to the launch of the new championship season.

Founder and Co-chairman of the organizing committee of the CASE-IN Championship Artem Korolev noted: "In the new season, we have significantly expanded the opportunities for participants: we have opened a new industry area for students, come up with interesting tasks for schoolchildren and will give young people the opportunity to try themselves in engineering, regardless of their region of residence."

Students of grades 3-11 will be able to try their hand at the School League. The remote format of the competition will allow everyone to join them, regardless of their region of residence.

The winners and prize-winners of the junior and middle classes will receive valuable prizes and invitations to specialized shifts at the children's summer camp. The winners and prize-winners of the senior age group will receive from 1 to 10 additional USE points upon admission to 32 partner universities of the championship and an invitation to summer specialized shifts.

High school students will have to manufacture technical devices for control systems of power facilities or nuclear industry facilities, as well as develop software or graphical interfaces to devices using augmented reality.

The competitions of the Student League of the CASE-IN Championship will be held for students of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan in eight industry areas: geological exploration, mining, metallurgy, oil and gas, petrochemistry, digital atom, electric power industry and a new direction "project engineering".

In March and April, participants will have face-to-face or remote qualifying stages at 70 universities and semi-finals in each federal district. At the end of May, the best teams will meet in the finals in Moscow.

Teams of students in each industry area will have to solve a three-step case: at each next stage, the case assignments will become more complicated. This will give even junior students the opportunity to try their hand at the championship, and from 10 to 20 teams will be able to qualify for the finals of each of the Student League's branch areas.

The cases are based on the most urgent tasks of the fuel and energy complex, the MSC and the nuclear industry, proposed by the partner companies of the championship. The purpose of the "CASE-IN" is to provide future specialists with practical skills that are in demand in the workplace.

As part of the Digital Atom project, IT specialists will create a prototype of a digital remote immersion system for new employees in the environment of the Rosatom State Corporation. "For us, the CASE-IN championship is a great opportunity to introduce young developers to Rosatom's digital agenda and talk about our ambitious goals, including not only the development of nuclear energy in Russia and the world, but also the creation of a domestic quantum computer, digitalization of the Northern Sea Route, and launching our own digital products. The case proposed by us is intended to complement the friendly interface addressed to new Rosatom employees. And we are very interested in giving the authors of the best project the opportunity to put it into practice.", – underlined Ekaterina Solntseva, Director of Digitalization, Rosatom State Corporation.

Two large–scale tasks await power engineers at once: JSC SO UES offers students to develop solutions for the development of regional energy systems, and PJSC FGC UES offers to find applications for digital technologies in the development of a distribution grid company.

In 2021, 18 leading industry companies became partners of the championship: JSC SO UES, JSC ALROSA, Rosatom State Corporation, PJSC RusHydro, PJSC FGC UES, LLC SIBUR, PJSC Tatneft, JSC NIPIGAZ, LLC Siberian Generating Company. the company", LLC "IBM SI Montan", JSC "Siberian Anthracite", LLC "Mycromine Rus", LLC "Raspadskaya Coal Company", LLC "Prosoft-Systems", PJSC "Yakutsk Fuel and Energy Company", LLC "EvrazHolding", JSC "Krastsvetmet", PJSC "YATEK".

The partners will offer internships, internships and employment to the best participants of the championship, and 20 partner universities of the championship will provide benefits for students upon admission to graduate and postgraduate studies. Among them: National Research University "MEI", St. Petersburg State Electrotechnical University "LETI" named after V.I. Ulyanov, National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University, National Research Technological University "MISIS", Irkutsk National Research Technical University and others.

In addition, the winners and prize-winners of the 2018-2020 championship can receive a presidential grant upon admission to the master's program.

Earlier, the teams of the National Research University "MEI" were repeatedly among the winners of the International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN".

Employees of 100 leading companies in the fuel and energy complex, MSK and the nuclear industry will participate in the League of Young Specialists of the CASE-IN championship. During the qualifying stages, they will have to develop a strategy for energy companies in the post-covid period, and the top 3 teams from each federal district will meet in the finals. The young specialists will be rewarded with professional and career growth – they will have the opportunity to join the managerial personnel reserve of the largest Russian specialized companies.

The organizers, together with the Fuel and Energy Complex and MSK companies, will also hold corporate competitions: the League of Working Specialties will bring together students from colleges and technical schools, and case championships for employees and students of targeted training from partner companies will be held as part of the Special "CASE-IN" League.

According to the founder of the competition, Artyom Korolev, in the new season at least 10,000 schoolchildren, students and young professionals will join in solving real production problems and offer useful ideas for the sustainable development of the leading sectors of the Russian economy.

The CASE-IN project is being implemented within the framework of the federal project "Social Elevators for Everyone" of the national project "Education".

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