BRICS Youth Championship: Sustainable development": meeting global challenges!

15 student teams reached the finals The BRICS Youth Championship: sustainable development", which for the first time takes place under the auspices of The International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN". During the championship, students from 45 Russian universities solve global challenges in the field of sustainable development, which are of paramount importance for the global economy and humanity as a whole. 

The organizer of the project is Kuzbass State Technical University named after T.F. Gorbachev, with the support of Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation, Federal Agency for Youth Affairs (Rosmolodezh) and  The Reliable Change Charitable Foundation. The partner of the championship is  The BRICS National Research Committee.

To participate in the BRICS Youth Championship: 47 teams have registered for Sustainable Development: these are 440 students from 22 regions of Russia.

Future specialists solved a case study on sustainable development goals in the BRICS space.  

"The students analyzed the factors influencing the development of the BRICS countries, including: the level of poverty, unemployment, uneven distribution of the population, CO2 emissions per capita, deforestation, waste disposal, lack of clean water, river pollution, and others.  Having identified the causes and consequences of negative phenomena, the participants developed proposals to overcome the economic, social and environmental challenges of our time., - said the project manager, Deputy Director for Scientific and Innovative Work at the Institute of Energy KuzSTU Roman Belyaevsky, - In their projects, the contestants also focused on global technological development and environmental safety".

The ideas of the industry youth were appreciated by representatives of industry companies and organizations, including the National Committee for BRICS Research, Gazprom PJSC, NIPIGAZ JSC, KATEN LLC and the Reliable Change Foundation.

Teachers of leading technical universities joined the evaluation of solutions, including KuzSTU, Ufa State Petroleum Technical University, Almetyevsk State Petroleum Institute, St. Petersburg State University of Economics, Siberian State Industrial University, Kazan State Power Engineering University, Sergo Ordzhonikidze Russian State Geological Exploration University, National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University, Irkutsk National Research Technical University. University, National Research Moscow State University of Civil Engineering, Altai State Technical University named after I.I. Polzunov, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation and the School of Creative Industries.

15 teams from 14 universities qualified for the championship finals.

The first place in the qualifying stage was taken by the Integral team representing Kazan National Research Technological University: Maxim Sungurov, Alyona Shpagina, Temurbek Begaliev and Alexander Markelov, team captain.

The winners proposed to develop education, build chemical clusters for the production of methanol based on carbon dioxide and hydrogen, as well as grow seaweed for the food industry and as a component of feed in agriculture.

The teams of the Financial University took the second and third places.

The 3+1 team won silver: Ekaterina Pozhidaeva, Alexandra Kirillova, Lyudmila Koloskova and Dmitry Razvalin.

"We were aware of the problems of BRICS before, but during the championship we were once again convinced that this association has a huge potential. Our team has proposed a comprehensive implementation of three programs in the field of economics, social sphere and ecology", - said the captain of the team Ekaterina Pozhidaeva.

The third place was taken by the Greengotts team: Andrey Vinogradov, Danila Krutskikh and Ekaterina Bochkova.

"BRICS has the potential to become more significant on the world stage, but this requires a clear policy pursued by all participating countries. Unfortunately, at the moment, the commonwealth is not effective enough in comparison with some others., - says the captain of the team Andrey Vinogradov, - Studying in the financial field, we approached the solution of the case analytically. Our offer is formed based on the criteria of maximum efficiency at lower cost. Due to the economies of scale and synergy between the countries, it was possible to offset many of the problems of the BRICS countries, as well as create potential for further development."

Among the proposals of the Greengotts team are: the production of green energy using the experience of Morocco in the field of solar energy and the experience of Russia in the field of reservoir purification; the creation of a special IT zone in Russia for specialists from India; online and radio training for students from Brazil and South Africa, the creation of new multinational companies in China with favorable working conditions for employees of the countries BRICS.

In addition to the top three winners, teams from St. Petersburg Mining University, St. Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation, Kazan State Medical University, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B. N. Yeltsin, Sergo Ordzhonikidze Russian State Geological Exploration University, Russian State University of Petroleum and Gubkin Gas, Moscow State University of Civil Engineering, Moscow Aviation Institute, North Caucasus Federal University, Volga Branch of the National Research University "MEI" and Tyumen State University.

"Finalists of the championship "BRICS: sustainable development" They will meet in December 2021 and present a solution to a complex problem dedicated to the main trends of sustainable development of the BRICS countries.", - the Director of the Reliable Shift Foundation summed up the results of the qualifying stage Artem Korolev.