A student from Volgograd is among the winners of the EFKO Group Special League

The winners of the EFKO Group Special League, which debuted under the auspices of the International Engineering CASE-IN Championship, were awarded at the Biruch Innovation Center. Victoria Korzh, a student of the Institute of Architecture and Construction of VolgSTU, is among the winners. 

12 talented students received valuable prizes and certificates and got acquainted with the work of the EFKO Group scientific and educational center and production sites - an enzyme plant and fat and oil products. The best contestants of the Special League will be included in the personnel reserve of EFKO Group.

It should be recalled that the qualifying stage of the league brought together students from different fields.: These are future analysts, HR specialists, creative managers, designers, brand managers, marketers, chemical technologists, geneticists, embryologists, microbiological engineers, biotechnological engineers and other specialists. The young people performed a task prepared by EFKO Group's leading specialists and related to the company's real production objectives and the global challenges facing the food industry.

The contestants performed tasks in accordance with their chosen direction: they created a marketing strategy for the development of the packaged butter market, developed measures to improve the efficiency of the sales department and layouts of the EFCO branded zone for their universities, and chose a technology that minimizes carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere during food production.

The top 40 students participated in the testing conducted using the methods that the company uses when selecting future specialists for the staff.

28 participants from the Altai Territory, Vladimir, Volgograd, Kirov, Kursk, Rostov, Samara, Saratov, Sverdlovsk regions, the Republics of Tatarstan and Crimea, as well as the Udmurt Republic qualified for the final.

As part of 7 teams, the finalists worked on solving the case "Organization of an innovative business model": they created a model for organizing an effective business for the production and sale of vegetable milk, thought out an advertising campaign, slogan and packaging, chose a management model and methods of staff motivation, and also expressed ideas on the composition and technology of the product.

The expert Commission determined the three winners and prize-winners of the EFKO Group Special League. Silver went to the Four in a Boat team, which included Victoria Korzh.

"I have learned to work to the maximum for the sake of achieving the overall result. Each of us was like a cog in a single mechanism. We all performed our duties with dignity and contributed to the achievement of the result," says Victoria.

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