The winners of the Special League of OOO LUKOIL-Volgogradneftepererabotka have been named

Case solutions were defended The Special League of OOO LUKOIL-Volgogradneftepererabotka The International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN". The championship is included in the presidential platform "Russia – the Land of Opportunities" and is implemented using a grant from the President of the Russian Federation for the development of civil society. 60 specialists of the company, consisting of 12 teams, presented their innovative projects at the competition.

LUKOIL-Volgogradneftepererabotka LLC is the largest producer of petroleum products in the Southern Federal District and the leader in efficiency among the LUKOIL Group refineries.

The organizers of the Special League are LUKOIL-Volgogradneftepererabotka LLC and the Reliable Shift Foundation.

The aim of the project is to develop the professional and leadership skills, knowledge and competencies of the company's employees, to involve them in active participation in solving scientific, industrial and economic problems facing the company and the industry. The key point of the competition is the transfer of accumulated experience and knowledge from the company's leading employees to a new generation of employees.

For the second year in a row, experts from the oil refining industry have been developing innovative solutions to improve production efficiency as part of the Special "CASE-IN" League.

This season, the participants developed a case study, which is a real practical task facing the company and dedicated to the unified theme of the championship "Sustainable Development". The participants were given 3 weeks to decide.

Deputy General Director for Personnel and Administrative Affairs of OOO LUKOIL-Volgogradneftepererabotka Elena Mironova Welcoming the participants of the final decisions, she noted that the employees of the enterprise held the championship with benefits for their professional and creative potential and acquired skills that will be useful to them in the future.

"Before the start of the league, we set two goals for ourselves and the participants – to unlock the potential of our employees and get original case solutions that can be applied in practice.- says Elena Nikolaevna. - Our specialists have a unique opportunity to get to know representatives of other fields, change their perspective on seemingly understandable issues, explore solutions to such problems and think about what can be done to improve productivity and work efficiency.  We are confident that the result of our joint work will benefit both the participants and the company as a whole."

12 teams competed for the victory in the Special League of OOO LUKOIL-Volgogradneftepererabotka. For three weeks, 60 employees worked on the case "Adaptation to a new reality" and developed a set of organizational, managerial and economic approaches to improve labor efficiency and productivity.

The decisions of the participants were evaluated by an expert commission from among the heads of the enterprise.

I summed up the results of the performance of the teams Elena Mironova: "This is the second time I have participated in such an event, and I never cease to be surprised at what talented and involved people represent the industry today. It is noticeable that there are experienced guys who have been defending cases for several times. But the newcomers also offered interesting solutions. There are projects that we take on a pencil, and we will work on them separately. The authors of the papers will also take part in the practical promotion of their solutions." 

By the decision of the expert commission, the OIL-Logistic team won the competition.

The reward for the winners was a ticket to the finals. The Autumn Cup of the League of Young Professionals The CASE-IN International Engineering Championship, which will be held in Moscow in December 2021.

"As part of solving the case, our team proposed using blockchain technology to improve interaction between all participants in the railway transportation process. It sounds complicated, but the implementation of this solution will significantly optimize the work on the shipment of raw materials by rail at our enterprise, and therefore increase the volume of products shipped to consumers and increase labor productivity. With the help of blockchain technology, each participant involved in the process will be able to access up-to-date information in real time without leaving their computer., - said the leading process engineer of the Shipping and storage Shop of commercial products Artem Kuznetsov. - The presence of representatives of various departments of the company belonging to different age groups in the team played an important role in choosing solutions to the case. Participation in the case championship gave us a great opportunity to go beyond the daily workflow, considering the solution of the problems that we consider relevant in a broader perspective. Winning the case championship was a pleasant surprise for us!"  

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

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Autonomous Non-profit Organization (ANO) "Russia – the land of opportunities" It was created on the initiative of Russian President Vladimir Putin. 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. The Supervisory Board of ANO "Russia – the Land of Opportunities" is headed by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

ANO "Russia – the land of opportunities" is developing a platform of the same name, which unites 26 projects: the management competition "Leaders of Russia", the competition "Leaders of Russia. Politics", student Olympiad "I am a professional", competition "Your move", international competition "My first business", All-Russian competition "Big Change", All-Russian project "Career Time", All-Russian competition "Volunteer of Russia", project "TopBLOG", project "Professional training 2.0", project "Cultural The Code", the Russian Student Spring Festival, the All–Russian Masters of Hospitality Competition, the Grant Competition for Youth Initiatives, the Digital Breakthrough competition, the Teacher of the Future professional competition, the Best Social Project of the Year competition, the All-Russian RDS project - The Territory of Self-Government, professional skills competitions among people people with disabilities "Abilimpix", the All–Russian youth management Cup "Manage!", the Russian National Student of the Year Award, the Worldskills Russia movement, the charity project "Dream with Me", the All-Russian League of Counselors competition, the My Country - My Russia competition, the international engineering CASE-IN championship, "Olympiad of the NTI Circle Movement.Junior».

As part of the activities of the NGO "Russia – the Land of Opportunities", an educational center, the Senezh Management Workshop, was established in February 2019. It is designed to generate a generation of active citizens, including competent civil servants who have received modern professional training and are united by the value of responsible service to the country and society.

International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN" − this is an international system of competitions for solving engineering cases among schoolchildren, students and young specialists in the fields of fuel and energy and mineral resources complexes. The championship is being implemented in accordance with the Action Plan aimed at popularizing the working and engineering professions, approved in 2015.

The organizers of the Championship are the Reliable Change Foundation, the Non-profit Partnership Youth Forum of Mining Leaders, ANO Russia – Land of Opportunities and AstraLogica LLC. The co-organizer of the Electric Power Industry direction of the CASE–IN Student League is the Russian National Committee of the International Council for Large High Voltage Electrical Systems, the Interregional Public Organization Academy of Mining Sciences is the co-organizer of the Mining and Geological Exploration directions, and the Center for Assistance to Young Specialists is the co-organizer of the League of Young Specialists.".

The national partners of the championship are the Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation, as well as the Federal Agency for Youth Affairs (Rosmolodezh), the Agency for Strategic Initiatives to Promote New Projects and the Federal State Budgetary Institution Center for Assistance to Young Professionals.

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