The experience of remote holding of the CASE-IN championship is presented at the Volga Energy Forum

On April 14-16, 2021, Samara hosted  Volga Region Energy Forum and the 27th International Exhibition "Energy and Housing-2021".

The Volga Energy Forum is a major industry exhibition project of the Samara Region. The main objectives of the event are to organize effective interaction between representatives of business, government, and scientific communities, conclude new partnership agreements, and receive orders and contracts.

The Reliable Change Foundation participated in the online business program of the forum. Olga Zubok, Deputy Director of the Foundation, acted as an expert at the round table "COVID-coach: practices for developing energy company personnel in the new reality."

In 2020, due to the pandemic, the working formats of many projects of the Reliable Shift Foundation were changed. The International Engineering CASE-IN Championship, which brings together schoolchildren, students of specialized universities, technical schools and colleges from all over the country, as well as young specialists from industry companies, was no exception. The project was completely converted to a remote format. The organizers managed to overcome all the technical difficulties in a short time and rebuilt the business processes. And, most importantly, all the competitions included in the original schedule of the championship took place.

"The pandemic forced us to change our plans, but at the same time we managed not only to save the projects, but even to increase the number of participants. The online format made it possible to attract students from universities who had not participated in the competition before. As a result, more than 80 universities took part in the championship last year, although we expected only 57 before the pandemic. In total, about 10,000 schoolchildren, students and young professionals were involved in the project.", - underlined it Olga Zubok.

In addition, the remote work format has contributed to the implementation of new projects and directions. For example, the educational platform "TEK!Connect", which hosts webinars, lectures, and workshops for industry youth. Recruiting for fuel and energy companies and MSC is developing, Online Open Days at universities and companies, corporate online projects, including competitions for fuel and energy companies and MSC.

"The main find of a difficult time for everyone is the constant exchange of experience with partners, which made it possible to maintain the intensive nature of work with industry youth without loss of quality., - shared my opinion Olga Zubok. – However, at the same time, the participants and organizers of our projects clearly feel the lack of live communication. Therefore, we are looking forward to the return of the previous work format, when we will be able to gather young people at federal venues, and students will once again have the opportunity to go on internships at their dream companies, gain invaluable experience and master their future profession, and current specialists will plunge into the workflow and present innovative projects to the employer."