The delegation of the System Operator took part in the work of the Youth Day of the Russian Energy Week and in the League of Young Specialists CASE-IN

The Youth Day of the International Forum on Energy Efficiency and Energy Development was held in Moscow. "Russian Energy Week", which was attended by more than two thousand people – students, young specialists of the fuel and energy complex and schoolchildren.

The System Operator was represented at the Youth Day by four teams that took part in interactive sessions, case-solving competitions, and a meeting with the Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation. By Alexander Novak. Two teams of participants JSC "SO UES" − «Promotion" and "MegaWatters" − during the interactive sessions, we discussed trends affecting the technological development of the Russian energy sector and made suggestions for the technological forecast of the development of the fuel and energy complex and energy efficiency of the Russian economy.

For the first time, the competition of the League of Young Specialists of the Case-in International Engineering Championship was held as part of the Youth Day, where the end–to-end theme of the 2018 championship was presented - "Arctic Development". Young specialists of the System Operator took an active part in the competition.: the "Contact" command, representing the ODE of the Urals, and the national team of branches of JSC SO UES "50 Hz". They proposed their own solutions concerning the integrated development of the Arctic region of Russia.

The Youth Day brought together not only representatives of a new generation of engineers, but also industry professionals. During the round table "Popularization of engineering professions, engineering and technical education and the development of new technologies", they discussed issues of engineering education in Russia and proposed initiatives for its strategic development. The round table was attended by the Deputy Minister of Energy of Russia Anton Inyutsyn, Deputy Minister of Education and Science of Russia Lyudmila Ogorodova, Deputy Head of the Federal Agency for Youth Affairs Roman Kamaev, heads of the country's leading technical universities and representatives of companies in the fuel and energy and mineral resource complexes.

One of the speakers of the round table was the head of thePavel Sharypanov, Department of Personnel Management of JSC SO UES who introduced the participants to the experience of working with young people at JSC SO UES and spoke about the use of the case method for initial professional testing and selection of the best students in the potential personnel reserve of the company and about the results of cooperation between JSC SO UES and partners – leading technical universities in Russia within the framework of The International Engineering Championship "Case-in".

"Practice-oriented training, including solving engineering cases, is worthy of wide application in the training of future power engineers. Projects such as the Case-in championship bring together all stakeholders – the government, universities and fuel and energy companies. For the students themselves, such projects are a platform for growth, competition with peers, acquaintance with experts and employment.", − noted Pavel Sharypanov. He proposed to include the Case-in International Engineering Championship in the overall work plan formed following the results of the round table, as a federal event.

In addition, representatives of the System Operator took part in Youth Day events dedicated to the topic of law in the energy sector. Yuri Perminov, Director of Legal Affairs at JSC SO UES I met with colleagues from other energy companies at a round table "Trends in the development of legal regulation in the energy sector and the tasks of training legal personnel for the industry", and Inna Ilyinets, Specialist of the first category of the Legal Support Department of JSC SO UES She became a laureate of the O.E. Kutafin University (MGUA) competition. "Young lawyer in the field of energy".

The Youth Day ended with the final session "Energy of the Youth Initiative" at which young power engineers presented their initiatives for inclusion in the federal youth action plan with the support of the Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation. In particular, the main one withDmitry Ivanovsky, Specialist of the Market Support Service of JSC SO UES made a presentation "Formation of the All-Russian youth community for the development of a technological forecast for the development of the fuel and energy complex and energy efficiency of the Russian economy", and Kirill Kostyukov, Master's student at the North Caucasus Federal University, a student of the System Operator training program, proposed to launch it as part of the All-Russian Energy Saving Festival #Brighter new all-Russian events: Open Day and All-Russian Technical Meeting.

The culmination of the Youth Day was a meeting of the participants with the Minister of Energy of Russia By Alexander Novak in the "no ties" format, at which the minister answered all the questions of interest to young and future power engineers.

The annual participation in the Youth Day of the International Forum on Energy Efficiency and Energy Development "Russian Energy Week" gives the System Operator the opportunity to introduce young professionals to current issues of Russian energy development, strengthen their practical teamwork skills, and represent their employer's interests in federal programs for youth work in the fuel and energy complex.

A source: The press center WITH «The UES»