Ministry of Energy: the CASE-IN championship allows young people to prove themselves

Russia's fuel and energy industries are experiencing a shortage of personnel, so the ministry makes it a priority to increase their attractiveness, said Anastasia Bondarenko, State Secretary and Deputy Minister of Energy.

MOSCOW, February 4. /tass/. The International Engineering CASE-IN Championship opens up new perspectives for young people and provides an opportunity to prove themselves to an employer, as well as immerse themselves in a competitive environment. Anastasia Bondarenko, State Secretary and Deputy Minister of Energy of Russia, said this at a press conference in TASS dedicated to the launch of the XIII season of the International Engineering CASE-IN Championship, which is part of the presidential platform "Russia - the Land of Opportunities."

According to her, the Russian fuel and energy complex industries are experiencing a shortage of personnel, so the ministry makes it a priority to increase the attractiveness of the industries, primarily in the eyes of young people.

"The time has come, in our common consolidated opinion, to work on the brand of the industry. To work on the attractiveness of the fuel and energy sector for young people. And I will not hide that the CASE-IN championship is working for these purposes," she said. Bondarenko added that it allows participants to immerse themselves in a competitive environment, to look at their industry from a different perspective.

"The championship, of course, opens up new perspectives for young people and the opportunity to show themselves in the eyes of the employer, among other things," she said.

In turn, Gennady Guryanov, Deputy General Director of ANO Russia - the Land of Opportunities, added that the International Engineering CASE-IN Championship has brought together more than 120,000 participants from Russia and neighboring countries over the past five years. "And, of course, it has become such an effective tool for forming a talent pool for our country's leading companies," Guryanov said. He noted that 34% of the cases that are being solved within the framework of the championship are implemented in industrial production.

Artem Korolev, the founder of the championship, director of the Reliable Change Foundation, also clarified that this year the unified theme of the championship is "Technological Innovations". He said that this year there will be a new competition area - "Biotechnology". Registration for the new season of the championship is already open.

The CASE-IN Championship is a system of competitions for solving engineering cases for schoolchildren, students and young professionals. It has been operating since 2013 and is dedicated to the topics of fuel and energy and mineral resource complexes, the nuclear industry and related industries. 

A source: tass