SIBUR opens up prospects for industry youth at the CASE-IN Championship

SIBUR - one of the key partners of the Reliable Change Foundation and its flagship project International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN".  The company supports students of specialized universities, young engineering enthusiasts – schoolchildren and active specialists, providing them with opportunities to start and develop their careers, as well as choose a future profession.

Member of the Board of Directors of SIBUR, CEO of ANO Russia – Land of Opportunities, Acting Rector of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration Alexey Komissarov He highly appreciated the company's youth policy: "The company is maximally interested in the development of young people from the very first stages of their formation, involving schoolchildren, students and young professionals in solving the problems facing the petrochemical industry and the environment. That is why SIBUR is a permanent partner of the International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN". SIBUR prepares cases for the School Championship League, and then evaluates the efforts and results of the students, and in the Student League "CASE-IN" SIBUR initiated the launch of the "Petrochemistry" direction. SIBUR's youth teams regularly participate in the League of Young Professionals and achieve prizes."

SIBUR  — one of the largest integrated petrochemical companies in Russia. SIBUR's enterprises are mostly provided with raw materials of their own production, obtained on the basis of by-products of hydrocarbon extraction. SIBUR is the largest processor of associated petroleum gas in Russia, annually preventing more than 70 million tons of CO2 and 7 million tons of pollutants from entering the atmosphere.

SIBUR creates comfortable conditions for the career and professional growth of its specialists who work at the company's enterprises throughout the country. Management appreciates the initiative of employees, giving them the opportunity to demonstrate their non-standard view and put forward ideas that are likely to be applied on production sites tomorrow.

At the CASE-IN championship, SIBUR considers candidates for talented students who it sees as a new generation of highly qualified employees. Under the wing of the company is the direction of "Petrochemistry": Leading experts prepare case assignments for the participants and evaluate their developments. The authors of the best solutions get the opportunity to complete internships and internships at the company's enterprises, and students who have proved themselves can join the SIBUR team.

In the previous season, future petrochemical specialists, on behalf of the company, designed changes in the production process of enterprises in the context of the fourth industrial revolution (Industry 4.0).

Head of the Industry 4.0 Practice Vadim Shchemelinin counts: "There are definitely no losers in the finals, all the participants have acquired important skills for further development. We noted the high level of case study, and the ideas of the contestants can be implemented at the largest enterprises in the country in the future. Students can start implementing their solutions now within the framework of the youth programs "First Element" - a program for graduate employment and "Trajectory" - a program for targeted student education. You can find out about all open vacancies and projects implemented by SIBUR on the company's website."

In the new season, SIBUR invited students to take up the development of PJSC Kazanorgsintez, Russia's only polycarbonate manufacturer. The participants are developing solutions that will improve the efficiency of polycarbonate production and implement the principles of import substitution to eliminate technical and economic barriers in the company's production activities.

SIBUR is already looking for future professionals at school, introducing the youngest participants of the CASE-IN to engineering and technical professions and helping them decide on their future. In the School League, the company oversees the "Case Solving" area and annually prepares assignments for the contestants.

In the main season of 2022, students in grades 9-11 joined teams to work on solving the case "What the abbreviation 4.0 hides". A permanent partner suggested that the high school students think about creating an environmentally friendly, safe and modern enterprise. The participants of the competition had to choose a technology of the fourth industrial revolution used in Russian industrial enterprises and prove its impact on production safety.

In the new season, students will analyze Kazanorgsintez PJSC and its place in the SIBUR production chain, and then propose promising areas for the company's development, taking into account import substitution and import conservation mechanisms.

Director of Human Resources Management at SIBUR Albina Labashova notes: "We work with young people systematically. The company focuses both on popularizing the natural sciences and on developing engineering competencies, which will receive in-depth study at the university after school, and then will be used in work at SIBUR enterprises. In order to grow specialists, we need serious training in all areas of the educational ecosystem – from equipping or reconstructing the space in which students receive knowledge, to training experts and teachers who transmit knowledge and form an engineering standard. Championships like the CASE-IN allow us to create an educational environment in which students will develop, share ideas and first-hand experience in developing applied and business-oriented projects."

The League of Young Professionals "CASE-IN" has also become a traditional competition for the company. The company's youth teams regularly become champions and winners of the league, acquiring new professional and personal competencies.

In the X season, the SIBUR - Kstovo Challenge accepted team won the championship cup. Denis Shiryaev (captain), Andrey Tyulin, Lyubava Bukhtoyarova and Alexander Khvalin have developed a comprehensive solution for sorting, disposing and recycling waste using plasma pyrolysis technology and separate collection of recyclable waste, which allows plastic, glass, metal and rubber to be recycled, as well as digital tools such as infrared sensors, video analysis, neural network and machine vision.

"We are very happy that we won the main cup. The victory came in a hard struggle. The level of the competitors was higher – only the strongest teams came to Moscow, the jury was more demanding, and we had to answer difficult and interesting questions. Following the results of the qualifying stage, we significantly revised our project, took into account the questions of the expert commission, and delved deeper into the details. It helped to win. We are grateful to our mentor, the management of the enterprise and the company for their help in preparation and for the very opportunity to participate and prove ourselves. Many thanks to all the guys who supported us.", - said the captain of the "Challenge accepted" team Denis Shiryaev.

"The result is the work of dozens of people, a confirmation of the involvement of young people in real production projects. The experience gained during the championship is invaluable. It will be useful in analyzing and solving the problems facing SIBUR-Kstovo. Youth is the future of the plant, and I am glad that the Kstovsky enterprise has this future.", - commented the CEO of SIBUR-Kstovo Sergey Nazarov.

Young specialists from the Nizhny Novgorod region have challenged themselves by taking part in the Autumn Cup. With the same composition, the Challenge accepted team once again surprised the expert community with its ideas and took second place.

The winning successes allowed the SIBUR-Kstovo team to rise to second place in the final ranking of the CASE-IN championship, reflecting the performance of 161 teams in 2019-2022 in the League of Young Professionals. The total amount of "Challenge accepted" points was 24, which is only one point less than the result of the rating winner.

In addition, the ZapSibNeftekhim team named TROYA, which took third place in the main season, joined SIBUR's piggy bank in 2022.

The participants of the CASE-IN championship have already become well acquainted with SIBUR and its development opportunities, considering the company one of the priority options for internships and the start of professional activity. This is evidenced by the results of a study of the brands of Russia's largest employers, in which the CASE-IN organizing committee asked industry youth about their career prospects. SIBUR is among the top three partner companies in the ranking.

SIBUR invites schoolchildren, students and young professionals to take advantage of the prospects to reach a new level of development. The project provides not only additional USE points, privileges for admission to the master's program and career growth. First of all, it means working on oneself, acquiring the most important professional and personal skills and the opportunity to find solutions to key tasks and issues for the country.

To participate in the championship, you must complete registration.

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