The finalists were determined in the Special League of PJSC "T Plus" of the "CASE-IN" Championship

The qualifying stages have been completed in the Special League of PJSC "T Plus" of the International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN". The CASE-IN 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.

The league is organized by PJSC "T Plus", the Reliable Change Foundation, NP "Youth Forum of Mining Leaders" and LLC "AstraLogica".

The main objectives of the league are to develop professional and leadership skills, moral and intellectual qualities of young employees of the company, to attract young people to actively participate in solving scientific and production activities and economic challenges facing the company and the industry as a whole, and to transfer experience from leading employees to young employees.

In total, 50 specialists from the branches of PJSC T Plus, representing 10 regions of the company's business presence, took part in the Special League competitions.  During the 2 qualifying stages, young power engineers competed for four tickets to the final of the prestigious project. 

Industry experts outlined the task for the participants: to develop a strategy for the company's development in the post-crisis period. The young power engineers had to identify and analyze the key factors of the covid-19 period that had the greatest impact on the company's work. then propose changes to the development strategy of PJSC T Plus in connection with the new priority conditions during the pandemic and after recovery from its consequences, as well as ways to overcome the negative impact on the company's activities.

The projects of the participants were evaluated by a competent jury consisting of the heads of PJSC T Plus, who head the areas of Strategy and Investment, Commerce and Development and the Production Unit.

In the first qualifying stage, case solutions were presented by teams of young employees from the company's branches in the Komi Republic, Mari El and Chuvashia, Perm, Saratov and Orenburg regions.

The team "Always in the black" representing the Orenburg Branch of PJSC "T Plus" was recognized as the winner of the stream. Participants: Andrey Bikbaev (captain), Alexey Belyaev, Konstantin Kryukov, Nikolai Starodubtsev, Sergey Tenyakov.

Team captain Andrey Bikbaev has been working for the company for about nine years. The main thing for a young specialist, in his opinion, is to learn as much as possible about the areas of activity of the enterprise and the industry as a whole in order to choose the most suitable one for themselves. That's exactly what the championship helps with.

"Our team's decision consisted of several main criteria: reducing the risks of staff health loss, preventing production shutdowns in the current time period, and identifying factors negatively affecting the economy of the Orenburg branch during the pandemic., - says Andrey. -  We also proposed measures to curb the negative growth of the Orenburg branch's margin income, worked out in detail the unique proposals needed for the future strategy and assessed the economic efficiency."

The team captain also shared his opinion on the benefits of the championship for companies and their employees.: "The competition taught me how to assemble an effective team capable of working in a limited time frame, not succumbing to stress during the development and protection of cases. As part of the case solution, the team learns a huge amount of information in a short time, which greatly enhances competencies and is an invaluable advantage for the company."

The second ticket to the championship finals was won by the specialists of the Saratov Branch of PJSC T Plus. Top Energy team: Ruslan Magyarov (captain), Anton Belyanin, Mikhail Volkovsky, Anna Vasilyeva, Dmitry Rubinov.

Ruslan Magyarov, the captain of the team, noted that the case proposed to the teams is aimed at solving problems within the framework of the stable operation of the company.

"As part of our decision, we proposed using digitalization in the company's work: These are artificial intelligence, predictive analytics, machine vision, drones, and a digital assistant. Working in large industry companies, it is important to quickly adapt to the proposed conditions, improve your knowledge and try yourself in related fields of activity", - the young power engineer thinks.

According to the decision of the expert commission, the first place in the second stream was taken by the "Live S team" team. Its participants are employees of the Mordovian Branch of PJSC T Plus, Artem Samarin (captain), Alexander Korotkov, Sergey Shumilkin, Evgeny Buralkin, Irina Shtyrova.

The next finalist was the Strategy-R team (Samara Branch of PJSC T Plus). She is represented by Alina Saigicheva (captain), Viktor Guskov, Dmitry Dolgushev, Kirill Peshkin, Evgeny Stroganov.

Alina Saigicheva believes that in times of impermanence and the new reality of many areas of life, stable sustainable development of the company is as important as ever. The team's decision is directly related to the efficient operation of the company and affects the generation of electricity and heat, as well as improving the quality of these processes.

"I have been working for the company for 5 years.The most important thing for a young specialist is to be believed in. Then all imaginable and inconceivable boundaries disappear. A special league allows you to increase the competence of the employee and acquire new skills that can then be applied in real production", - the captain of the team comments.

The teams that take the first two places in each qualifying stage receive tickets to the final of the Special League of PJSC T Plus, which will be held as part of the grand final of the International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN" in Moscow in May - June 2021.

The reward for the winners and prize-winners of the decisive test will be new opportunities for career and professional growth, as well as inclusion in the management personnel reserve of PJSC T Plus. 

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

Video: how were the competitions of the Special League of PJSC "T Plus" held in 2019 and 2020 years.

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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 form 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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