The first finalists of the League of Young Professionals have been identified

Employees of PJSC Unipro and LLC Tomskneftekhim became the first finalists of the League of Young Specialists of the XIII season of the International Engineering CASE-IN Championship. They have proposed promising solutions for the development of their companies and are now preparing to perform well at the main competition of the season in Moscow.

The League of Young Professionals in 2025 is dedicated to the topic "Technological innovations". During the qualifying stages, employees of the fuel and energy complex, MSC, nuclear industry and related industries 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 honor of opening the competition was awarded to 8 teams representing the Novgorod branch of PJSC ROSSETI North-West, LLC ENERGOSET, LLC Tomskneftekhim, PJSC Unipro, JSC ALROSA, LLC RN-Krasnoyarsk Oil, PJSC Nizhnekamskneftekhim and PJSC Severstal.

In just 10 days, the participants had to solve a case study on technological sovereignty and innovative development of fuel and energy complex and MSC enterprises. The organizers set the task for the young specialists to develop business models for the development of the enterprise, taking into account the orientation to actively growing markets and to present the breakthrough technology used in the creation of the main equipment supplied in the future.

An expert commission consisting of representatives of educational organizations, scientific institutions and industry companies, after listening to the presentations of the youth teams, determined the champions and prize-winners. 

The winner of the qualifying stage and the holder of a ticket to the semifinals was The team of PJSC Unipro is Team No. 2, which includes employees of the company of the same name Ilyas Karagulov (captain), Alexander Ponomarenko, Shakhzod Tashpulatov and Vladislav Litvinenko.

"Our solution is based on CO2 capture based on the PGU-400 Surgutskaya GRES-2 for further sale to oil companies., – He told me Ilyas Karagulov. – In the final, we want to to glorify our beloved company, grow professionally and, of course, become champions."

The silver medalists will also go to the decisive competition. – employees of Tomskneftekhim LLC, Eduard Nigmatullin (captain), Abdullina Karina, Vlada Bulakh and Andrey Kachailov, united in the EcoInnovators team. They proposed to produce a "neutral and eco-friendly packaging for medical solutions.

"We managed to get to the final of the project thanks to the involvement of each team member in the process. At the championship, we learned how to work as a team, present our solution, analyze data and visualize it. In addition to a successful performance, we set ourselves the goal of increasing expertise not only in the field of polymer materials and getting to know cool guys.", – noted Eduard Nigmatullin.

For young professionals, participation in the championship is an opportunity to make themselves known not only in their company, but throughout Russia, the finalists are confident. "And the employer can note for himself that there are purposeful, initiative guys in the company who can offer ideas that increase the competitiveness of the enterprise," they added.

The final of the CASE-IN championship will be held at the end of May 2025 in Moscow. The winners of all the qualifying stages of the League of Young Specialists will try to prove to the expert community the novelty and effectiveness of their developments, exchange ideas with colleagues from the largest companies in Russia and receive an impetus for further personal and professional development. 

The champions and prize-winners of the League of Young Professionals will have the opportunity to be included in the managerial personnel reserve of companies, as well as trips to industry youth educational forums.

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

Championship included in the Science to Win initiative and the plan The Decade of Science and Technology, which takes place in Russia in 2022-2031.