The youth of the Belgorod region is preparing for the next CASE-IN season

The championship is held in order to promote engineering and technical education and training of specialists for companies of the fuel and energy complex, the Moscow Energy Complex, the nuclear industry and related industries and is included in the initiative "Science to Win" of the plan of the Decade of Science and Technology in Russia. 

"In three years, the demand for engineers has increased 2.5 times. The CASE-IN championship has become an effective tool for forming the personnel reserve of companies in the fuel and energy complex and related industries. Thus, according to the project, 90% of school-age participants enrolled in specialized universities, and a third of them used the additional USE points provided by the championship. Among the students, 30% of the participants received invitations to practice. 42% of young professionals have been promoted at work during the year," said Gennady Guryanov, Deputy General Director of ANO Russia – Land of Opportunities.

Competitions are held in three age categories: among schoolchildren, students and young professionals. Participants will be looking for solutions to real production problems.

The student League is the largest – it is planned that students from more than 200 universities will take part in the full-time qualifying stages of the new season, and the stages themselves will be held in 83 specialized universities. There are 11 industry areas in this league: architecture, design, construction, and housing and communal services; biotechnology; geological exploration; mining; mining machinery and equipment; metallurgy; petrochemistry; oil and gas; electric power; design engineering; thermal power engineering.

This year's partner of the championship was Belgorod State National Research University, which will host the qualifying stages in the fields of Mining and Biotechnology.

Student teams will have to develop projects to introduce innovations into production, which should become an impetus for achieving technological sovereignty and forming a strong and competitive national economy. The strongest teams of the qualifying competition will represent the region in the semi-finals. The authors of the best ideas will receive a ticket to the final stage of the championship. And the Starooskolsky Technological Institute named after A.A. Ugarov (branch) of the Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education "National Research Technological University "MISIS", in addition, will provide the winners and prize-winners of the league with privileges for admission to master's and postgraduate studies. 

It should be recalled that students of the Belgorod Region regularly participate in the championship, and their highest achievement is the second place in the field of Mining, which was won by the Windy Rose team of Belgorod State National Research University in 2023. 

The school league will bring together the youngest participants of the CASE-IN championship. Students of grades 9-11 in the field of "Engineering and technical creativity" will prepare layouts, digital drawings, digital projects in the format of modeling, 3D printing, IT solutions, etc. The winners will be determined in the spring in an online format. Teams of high school students will solve cases from the SIBUR partner company as part of the qualifying competitions. And those who successfully complete the task will go to the full-time final of the CASE-IN. 

The strongest participants of the School League will receive additional USE points from a number of universities, which will be taken into account when applying. Among them are Belgorod State National Research University and the Starooskolsky Technological Institute named after A.A. Ugarov (branch) of the Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education "National Research Technological University "MISIS".

In the League of Young Professionals, current young employees of companies in the region will develop solutions on topics relevant to the Russian industry that will allow their employers to improve production performance.

The final of the CASE-IN championship will be held in Moscow at the end of May 2025. The champions and prize–winners of the Student League will enroll in master's and postgraduate studies at partner universities on preferential terms, as well as complete internships and internships in partner companies with the possibility of further employment. The winning students will receive additional points to the results of the Unified State Exam when applying to bachelor's degree programs at one of the partner universities of the championship. The award for the best young professionals will be career and professional growth opportunities, as well as inclusion in the managerial personnel reserve of companies. In addition, the authors of the best ideas will receive invitations to industry youth educational forums.

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