The final of the IX International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN" has started in Moscow

The final of the IX International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN", one of the projects of the presidential platform, has started "Russia is a land of opportunity". Over the course of three days, more than 600 students and young professionals from the largest industry companies from 40 regions of Russia and Belarus will compete for the main prizes of the season.

The competitions of the ninth season were held in four leagues: the School League, the Student League, the League of Young Professionals and the Special League. The participants developed case solutions for the nuclear industry, fuel and energy, mineral resource complexes, and related industries. The general theme of the season was "Sustainable development".

"Over the course of three days, from May 31 to June 2, 617 students and young professionals from the largest industry companies from 40 regions of Russia and Belarus will compete for the main prizes of the season. A rich program awaits the finalists. They will not only defend their design decisions, but also meet with employers and take part in workshops and plenary sessions."- shared the Director General of ANO "Russia – the land of opportunities" Alexey Komissarov.

The final, which started on May 31 in Moscow, is being held for the Student League, the League of Young Professionals and the Special League of PJSC T Plus. The students will meet in decisive competitions in mid-June.

Students from Russia and Belarus were the first to compete in the IX season.: The qualifying stages of the Student League started in March in a mixed (distance and face-to-face) format and were held on the basis of 62 partner universities of the project. In addition, students from 42 more universities joined the competition.

5,596 students demonstrated their innovative projects. This year, they got the opportunity to prove themselves in more industries. Among them are geological exploration, mining, metallurgy, oil and gas, petrochemistry, digital atom, electric power industry and the new direction of "project engineering".

"1,479 student teams solved a three-stage case: at each subsequent stage, the tasks of the case became more complicated, supplemented by new conditions. This gave even junior students the opportunity to try their hand at the championship. The tasks were based on the actual tasks proposed by the partner companies of the championship", – said the founder and co-chairman of the organizing committee of "CASE-IN" Artem Korolev.

The teams that performed well during the qualifying stages advanced to the online semi-finals of the federal districts. And 943 students from 260 teams competed to reach the finals. However, only 517 students from 58 universities in the country qualified for the final stage. The guys are divided into 136 teams representing 8 industry areas.

305 employees of fuel and energy companies, mineral resources complex and nuclear industry participated in the qualifying stages of the League of Young Specialists of the CASE-IN championship. To reach the finals, they needed to develop a strategy for energy companies in the post-covid period. The three best teams in each federal district became finalists – 72 young specialists in total.

"The tasks that the students solved are as relevant as possible for the partners of the championship. But I would like to mention the young specialists in particular: this season they have been developing strategies for the development of companies in the post-crisis period. The guys proposed dozens of effective and non-standard solutions that will help Russian companies overcome the consequences of the pandemic.", – said Alexey Komissarov.

The participants of the Special League of PJSC "T Plus" will meet in their own final. 50 employees of the company took part in the league competitions in 11 regions of Russia. Young power engineers have been developing the company's development strategy in the post-crisis period. Four teams made it to the finals – these are young specialists from the company's branches in the Orenburg, Saratov, Samara regions and the Republic of Mordovia.

The winners of the Student League of the IX International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN" will have the opportunity to complete internships and internships in 17 leading industry companies in the country. The students will also receive benefits for admission to master's and postgraduate studies at 20 partner universities of the competition. The winners of the competition in the League of Young Professionals will have the opportunity to join the managerial personnel reserve of their companies. And the winners and prize-winners of the championship finals in the Special League of PJSC "T Plus" will be included in the regional personnel reserve of this corporation.

On the first day of the final stage, future specialists in the field of petrochemicals, electric power industry, as well as builders and design engineers will begin to defend the projects. Master classes and Career Days of JSC SO UES, Rosseti FGC UES, PJSC RusHydro, JSC NIPIGAZ, PJSC SIBUR will also be organized for the children. Awards to the best will be presented by the Director General of ANO "Russia – the land of opportunities" Alexey Komissarov, Director of the Department of State Youth Policy of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation Denis Ashirov, Head of the "Sustainable Development" function at SIBUR Maxim Remchukov and the leading specialist of the HR brand of JSC NIPIGAZ Tatiana Beskhlebnaya.

On the second day of the final of the engineering championship, on June 1, participants in the fields of Mining, Geological Exploration and Digital Atom will compete. The final defense of future power engineers will conclude the competition in the field of "Electric Power Industry". On the same day, master classes and Career Days will be held, which were prepared by ROSATOM State Corporation, MYCROMINE RUS LLC and ALROSA (PJSC). The State Secretary - Deputy Minister of Energy of Russia will take part in awarding the champions. Anastasia Bondarenko and Deputy Head of the Federal Agency for Youth Affairs Andrey Platonov, as well as representatives of the partner companies of the competition: General Director of JSC "Greenatom" Michael Ermolaev, Director of Personnel Management at JSC SO UES Bayrta Perveyeva, Head of the Personnel Selection and Development Center of ALROSA (PJSC) Natalia Petukhova, Director of the branch of PJSC RusHydro – "Corporate University of Hydropower" Dmitry Zavrazhny, Director of IMC Montan Sergey Nikishichev and the head of the Department for work with educational institutions and methodological support Mycromine Rus LLC Grigory Fedotov.

On Wednesday, June 2, experts from the oil and gas industry and metallurgy, finalists of the Special League of PJSC T Plus and the League of Young Professionals will present their work. Then the students will meet with experts from PJSC Tatneft and PJSC YATEK and take part in master classes and panel discussions. The best participants will be congratulated by the guests of honor. Among them is the First Deputy Minister of Education. Alexander Bugaev and President of the Vernadsky State Geological Museum of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, President of the Academy of Mining Sciences Yuri Malyshev. The partners' awards will also be presented by the Director of Geology of PJSC YATEK Anton Nedosekin and Head of the Department of Corporate Culture and Youth Policy Development at PJSC Tatneft Evgeny Gavrilov.

In 2021, the championship is supported by leading Russian companies. Among them are JSC SO UES, JSC ALROSA, Rosatom State Corporation, PJSC RusHydro, PJSC FGC UES, LLC SIBUR, PJSC Tatneft, JSC NIPIGAZ, LLC Siberian Generating Company, LLC IMC MontanSiberian Anthracite JSC, Mycromine Rus LLC, Raspadskaya Coal Company LLC, Prosoft Systems LLC, Yakutsk Fuel and Energy Company PJSC, EvrazHolding LLC, Krastsvetmet OJSC.

The CASE-IN project is being implemented within the framework of the federal project "Social Elevators for Everyone" of the national project "Education". The championship is implemented using a grant from the President of the Russian Federation for the development of civil society.

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