Irkutsk students will represent the region in the final of the Autumn Cup "CASE-IN"

Students of Irkutsk National Research Technical University have reached the final of the Autumn Cup of the International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN". The championship has been included in the Presidential Platform "Russia – the Land of Opportunities" since 2019.  In 2021, the Student League and the Autumn Cup "CASE-IN" are included in the plan of the Year of Science and Technology.

According to the organizers of the event, 17 teams from 10 universities of the Siberian Federal District competed for a ticket to the finals of the CASE-IN championship: these are students from Irkutsk, Kemerovo, Novokuznetsk, Novosibirsk, Norilsk, Omsk, Prokopyevsk, Sayanogorsk and Tomsk.

The contestants dealt with the topical issue of decarbonization of production and combating global climate change: each team developed a set of measures to reduce emissions of pollutants in permafrost conditions. The partner of the CASE-IN Autumn Cup, ALROSA PJSC, set the students the task of finding a solution, taking into account the localization of the company's enterprises and Russian legislation.

According to the decision of the jury, the Star Volts, one of the most experienced teams of the championship, will go to Moscow. For captain of polytechnics Victoria Piskunova, this is the seventh season of "CASE-IN" and the fifth time she leads her team to the finals. Alisa Soboleva is the debutant of the "CASE-IN", and Arthur Galfinger is a five-time participant of the championship.

"Reducing the carbon footprint is one of the main trends in the development of all industries, - Victoria Piskunova comments, - Today, there are many ways to solve this problem, starting with the transition to carbon-free fuels and ending with the disposal of CO2."

"Our task was to offer technologies to reduce CO2 emissions into the atmosphere. We proposed using the Allama cycle at thermal power plants, which will completely eliminate emissions due to the fact that most of the spent carbon dioxide will be used in the turbine's operating cycle, and a smaller part of the pure CO2 will be sent to consumers.", - said the captain of the finalists.

Together with Irkutsk polytechnics of the Siberian Federal District, students from Krasnoyarsk and Kuzbass will present in Moscow: students from Siberian Federal University and Kuzbass State Technical University named after T. F. Gorbachev.

The final of the Autumn Cup of the championship will be held on December 16, 2021 and will become a large-scale competition in several "CASE-IN" leagues at once: the winners of the qualifying stages of the School League and the League of Young Professionals, as well as the finalists of the BRICS Youth Championship will join the students.: sustainable development".

The winners of the Autumn Cup of the Student League will complete internships and internships in leading industry companies with the possibility of further employment, as well as receive benefits for admission to master's and postgraduate studies at 20 partner universities.

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

The International Engineering CASE-IN Championship is an international competition system for solving engineering cases among schoolchildren, students and young specialists in the fuel and energy and mineral resource industries. 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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