League of Young Professionals "CASE-IN": great prospects for a record number of participants

In The League of Young Specialists of the International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN", part of the the Russia – the Land of Opportunities platform, the marathon of qualifying stages starts. In the new season, a record number of youth teams will compete for the title of champions and great career prospects.

The main theme of the XI season of the CASE-IN Championship is "Technological Leadership". Participants will have to solve cases and complete engineering and technical tasks related to artificial intelligence, computing and data transmission, robotics, and industrial technologies.

Alexey Agafonov, First Deputy General Director of ANO Russia – Land of Opportunities, stressed that interest in the League of Young Professionals is increasing: this year, youth teams from 96 industry companies will compete for reaching the finals, which is an absolute record. 

"This indicates the increasing need for industry companies to continuously develop and improve the professional skills of young employees., – counts Alexey Agafonov. – «CASE-IN" Today, it provides young professionals with a high level of competition, great opportunities for personal and career growth, as well as gaining valuable skills that later help them open up in the workplace. According to the organizing committee's research "CASE-IN"every third case solution after the competition is implemented in the company, and 47% of participants receive a promotion in the first year after participating in the League. Let this be an additional incentive to prove yourself and develop promising solutions for the participants of the current season."

The participants of the qualifying stage will have to solve the case "Managing the technological future". Young specialists will analyze the technological challenges of their chosen industry and breakthrough technologies that will shape the future of carbon-neutral energy and resource-efficient energy consumption worldwide (Net Zero), as well as accelerate the transformation of all business lines in this representative complex of energy extraction, processing, energy generation and large-scale consumption in the manufacturing sector.

Natalia Trifonova, Head of the Department of International Business at St. Petersburg State University, scientific director of the CASE-IN League of Young Specialists, member of the CASE-IN Hall of Fame, believes that the main purpose of the case is to form participants' understanding of breakthrough technologies implemented by leading companies and scientific groups of world scientists; to encourage young professionals to create research and implementation infrastructure.; to develop a mechanism to support technological entrepreneurial initiatives and improve motivation for search and inventive activities.

"As part of the ambitious task that we have set for the young engineers, they will have to make proposals on the directions and algorithms for the development and implementation of breakthrough technologies. – underlined it Natalia Trifonova. –  RayThe final solution of the case should not only be a novelty, a non-trivial engineering proposal, but also carry the prospect of further commercialization. It is economically justified and supported by an appropriate resource base. The most successful solutions of the guys can be used in the R&D sector, specialized departments of innovative development, in production units that more often than others face technological challenges and incur losses in the development of new production processes, development in new territories, and the elimination of sanctions consequences."

The decisions of the youth teams will be evaluated by an expert commission consisting of leading specialists from Russian industrial companies.

The authors of the best ideas will go to the final of the Championship, which will be held in Moscow on June 1, 2023. Champions and prize-winners will receive new opportunities for professional and personal growth, as well as be able to join the managerial personnel reserve of their companies.

The Organizing Committee of the championship has published a rating of the League of Young Professionals for the last 4 years, which reflects the success of the participating teams in the main season and the Autumn CASE–IN Cup. Its results can be found at the link.

The organizers of the CASE-IN championship are the Reliable Change Foundation, the Non-profit Partnership Youth Forum of Mining Leaders and AstraLogica LLC.

The project is being implemented using a grant from the President of the Russian Federation for the development of civil society.

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

The CASE-IN Championship is included in the Science to Win initiative And the plan The Decade of Science and Technology, which will be held in Russia in 2022-2031.