The results of the anniversary season were summed up at the final of the Autumn CASE-IN Cup

12 teams of future and young engineers won awards at the Autumn Cup of the X International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN", one of the projects of the presidential platform "Russia – the land of Opportunities". On December 16, at the final final in Moscow, the industry community, having reviewed 66 promising innovative developments, determined the champions and prize-winners of the anniversary season.

In 2022, the championship was held under the banner of Industry 4.0. During the season, schoolchildren, students and young professionals worked on cases compiled by CASE-IN partner companies related to the development of digitalization and the introduction of information technologies on production sites.

"For 10 years, together with our partners, fuel and energy companies, industry universities, colleges and schools, we have been educating the future generation of Russian engineers. Concluding X season, xI want to acknowledge everyone's contribution and thank them for their hard work. Our members are a calling card "CASE-IN"With their achievements, they promote engineering and technical specialties among the youth industry, – said the founder and co-chairman of the organizing committee of "CASE-IN" Artem Korolev. – By completing one season, we are smoothly bridging the gap to another and preparing new interesting cases, competitions and other educational products for the participants."

At the final of the Autumn Cup, 54 teams of future and young engineers of fuel and energy and mineral resources complexes presented their ideas.

The State Secretary - Deputy Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation took part in summing up the results of the X season of the CASE-IN championship and the solemn awarding ceremony for the winners and prize-winners of the Autumn Cup. Anastasia Bondarenko, Head of the Department for Cooperation with Non-Profit Organizations of the Department of State Youth Policy and Educational Activities of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation Oleg Dyachenko, Deputy Director General of ANO "Russia - the land of opportunities" Oksana Achkasova, Rector of the National Research University "MEI" Nikolai Rogalev, Head of the Personnel Selection and Development Department at ALROSA (PJSC) Natalia Petukhova, Senior Manager of SIBUR LLC Ivan Kiselyov.

State Secretary - Deputy Minister of Energy of Russia Anastasia Bondarenko She noted that the CASE-IN championship is a recognizable brand and a flagship youth project in the fuel and energy complex and a project in demand by young people for its versatility.

"Everyone can find something in it for themselves. For schoolchildren, this is an opportunity to decide on a profession and get preferences for admission to university, for students – to complete internships at production sites and take the first step in building a career, and for young professionals – to prove themselves and climb the career ladder., - counts Anastasia Bondarenko, - But the most important merit of the championship is that it forms a community of proactive and not indifferent to the problems of the industry. We see a systemic effect, which is manifested in increasing the demand for our other projects, such as the Youth Global Forecast of Energy Development, the Youth Day of the Russian Energy Week."

Awarding the new champions of the jubilee season, Anastasia Bondarenko addressed the finalists: "I am convinced that your activity and creativity, your projects will help you to adequately position yourself as professionals in the fuel and energy sector. I invite you to continue participating in events under the auspices of the CASE-IN championship. We need your fresh ideas, an unconventional view of the problems facing the fuel and energy complex today, and a willingness to meet the challenges of the times!"

Deputy Director General of ANO "Russia - the land of opportunities" Oksana Achkasova She stressed that CASE-IN is a social elevator for young engineers of the fuel and energy and mineral resources complex of our country, as well as the nuclear industry.

"Thanks to the championship, schoolchildren receive benefits when applying to universities, students complete internships and get their first job, and young professionals get new opportunities for their professional development. Since last year, all the laureates of the championship have received a unique opportunity to travel around Russia as part of our "More than a Journey" program, - noted Oksana Achkasova.

Competition in Student League It has traditionally become the most widespread, bringing together 721 teams from the country's specialized universities. Only 24 teams qualified for the finals, which, on behalf of ALROSA, developed solutions to optimize the operation of the Almazny mine based on Industry 4.0 technologies.

Rector of the National Research University "MEI" Nikolai Rogalev He congratulated the participants and organizers on the anniversary of the project and noted the role of the championship for youth: "It is a great honor for us to participate in "CASE-IN», to support the Championship during this time. The slogan "Russia is a land of opportunities" fully corresponds to the championship — 155 universities, more than 200 partners, the geography of today "CASE-IN» covers all corners of our homeland! Dear students, participants of the championship, communicating with the best experts of your industries, you grow up both professionally and personally. It is a great honor to be in the engineering community, no matter what specialty you belong to. That's why I congratulate you.: Today you are the best, the smartest!

The new champions are students of St. Petersburg Mining University, the Neftech team: Ekaterina Sedelnikova, Anastasia Serebryakova, Fedor Aksenov and Kirill Naumchenko. The silver medalists were the team of Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University "BROIZ": Ekaterina Zorina, Valeria Kozodaeva, Lyudmila Morshchakova and Olga Chernaya. The Polymers team is in third place - students of Tyumen Industrial University Victoria Velizhanina, Georgy Pronichev, Andrey Shabarchin and Anastasia Kuznetsova.

"This anniversary year, more than 8000 students from 155 universities took part in the championship, which is a record for all 10 years.- said the Head of the Department for Cooperation with Non - profit Organizations of the Department of State Youth Policy and Educational Activities of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation Oleg Dyachenko, - I wish the participants to focus on their goal and keep moving towards it.  The future belongs to you!"

The youngest participants of the Autumn Cup were students of grades 9-11 from 160 schools in Russia. Total in the qualifying trial The School League 191 teams took part, and 16 teams of young researchers made it to the finals.

The students were assigned by SIBUR to solve the case "Industry 4.0: new competencies". The students developed the concept of an educational platform for staff training and development based on Industry 4.0 technologies and assessed how the introduction of Industry 4.0 technologies would affect SIBUR's ESG ratings.

The season's champions were the "Bunnies" from Moscow School No. 1580: Ivan Grebennikov, Konstantin Zeigman, Alexandra Ogloblina and Vladimir Revin. In second place is the Kuzbass Energy team, a team of the Center for Children's Scientific and Engineering Creativity at the Kuzbass State Technical University "UniqUe", Kemerovo City Classical Lyceum, and the Center for Children's Scientific and Engineering Creativity "Springboard" in Leninsk-Kuznetsk. Team members: Alexander Denisov, Kirill Rudyakov, Vyacheslav Vizilo and Yaroslava Khlystun.

The bronze medalists were high school students from Magnitogorsk - the Voskhod team of the design school of Magnitogorsk State Technical University named after G. I. Nosov.: Ekaterina Grigorenko, Artyom Karpov, Danila Kurzaev and Gleb Salakhov.

36 teams of Russia's leading industrial companies became participants Leagues of young Professionals. The 9 teams that overcame the qualifying barrier presented potential scenarios for the development of Donbass energy in the finals.

The first place was taken by the team of JSC Zarubezhneft "Nestro Energy": Victoria Balyakina, Ekaterina Begisheva, Sergey Balkanov and Maxim Gimadetdinov. In second place is the Sibur-Kstovo Challenge accepted team: Lyubava Bukhtoyarova, Andrey Tyulin, Alexander Khvalin and Denis Shiryaev. The third place went to the Transgaz of Dreams team of Gazprom Transgaz Tchaikovsky LLC: Danil Borisov, Ekaterina Gudkova, Mikhail Alikin and Maxim Vaulin.

For the first time in the history of the project, the Super Bowl "CASE-IN", dedicated to the X anniversary Championship and bringing together 5 winning teams from previous seasons.

The winner of the Champions Cup was one of the most famous teams of the WeWatt championship, representing St. Petersburg Mining University: Alexandra Buldysko, Yulia Gotsul, Alexey Zamyatin and Pavel Suslikov. In 2nd place is the MirITeam Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University team: Tatiana Borodina, Alexander Seryshev and Timofey Karklin. The bronze medalists were students of the National Research Technological University MISIS, the MFH team: Igor Litvinenko, Nikita Maslennikov, Anna Russian and Oleg Strakhov.

The winners of the season received valuable awards. Students will receive internships in companies with the possibility of subsequent employment and privileges for admission to postgraduate and master's degrees at leading specialized universities, while schoolchildren will receive additional USE points for admission to CASE-IN partner universities.  Young specialists will be able to join the managerial personnel reserve of their companies.

The champions and prize-winners will receive internships in leading Russian industrial companies with the possibility of further employment. The winners will also receive admission privileges. postgraduate and master's degree programs at partner universities of the championship and they will be able to travel around Russia as part of the program. "More than a journey".

The organizers of the Autumn Cup of the CASE-IN Championship are Reliable Change Foundation, Non-profit Partnership "Youth Forum of Mining Leaders", LLC "AstraLogica" and National Research University "MEI"  with the support of Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation. 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 held within the framework of Decades of science and Technology. 

The partners of the Autumn Cup of the CASE-IN Championship are ALROSA JSC (PAO), PJSC SIBUR Holding, Schlumberger Technology Company, Gazstroyprom JSC, PJSC RusHydro.