30 student teams became the winners of the XII season of the CASE-IN championship

The main season of the International Engineering CASE-IN Championship has ended in Moscow. More than 7.2 thousand schoolchildren, students and young specialists from Russia and 5 CIS countries took part in the final, they developed engineering solutions to implement the principles of lean manufacturing in industry.

Olga Petrova, Deputy Minister of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation, sent a parting message to the finalists. "The championship lights up the stars! And each of the participants of the new season can follow this path. The main thing is to demonstrate your perseverance in achieving your goals, not to be afraid of ambitious tasks, and to work together with your team," Olga Petrova said.

The most massive league of the championship, the Student League, was attended by 5.8 thousand students from more than 70 universities in Russia, as well as students from universities in Kazakhstan and Belarus. 110 teams reached the final, 30 of them became the winners in one of the 10 industry areas:

- Architecture, construction and housing and communal services;

- geological exploration;

- mining;

- mining machinery and equipment;

- metallurgy;

- oil and gas business;

- petrochemistry;

- project engineering;

- thermal power engineering;

- electric power industry.

The champions represented seven universities: St. Petersburg Mining University of Empress Catherine II, Tyumen Industrial University, North Caucasus Federal University, UMMC Technical University, Irkutsk National Research Technical University, Siberian Federal University, National Research University "MEI".

The winners and prize-winners of the Student League will be able to enroll in master's and postgraduate studies at 30 partner universities on preferential terms, as well as complete paid internships in leading companies with the possibility of further employment.

Admission benefits are also waiting for high school students who are winners of the School League.: They will receive additional USE points when applying to one of the 108 partner universities of the competition. The competition in the League of Young Professionals continues.

Engineering cases and other tasks were developed and presented by industry companies: ALROSA (PJSC), United Company RUSAL, Yakutsk Fuel and Energy Company, SIBUR Holding, System Operator of the Unified Energy System, Gazprom Energoholding, Metropolis, Rosseti, NIPIGAZ".

The CASE-IN Championship was held at the University of Science and Technology MISIS. The organizers were the Reliable Change Foundation, the Youth Forum of Mining Leaders non-profit partnership, and the AstraLogica company.

The championship is held with the support of the Russian Ministry of Education and Science and is included in the Science to Win initiative, the Decade of Science and Technology Plan, and the All-Russian Action Plan aimed at popularizing the fuel and energy complex, energy conservation, and engineering education. The CASE-IN is also supported by the Ministry of Energy, the Ministry of Construction, the Ministry of Education of Russia, Rosmolodezh and ANO "Russia — the land of Opportunities". The project is being implemented using a grant from the President of the Russian Federation for the development of civil society.

A source: Ministry of Education and Science of Russia