The development of the Arctic has become the topic of the International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN"

Registration of participants of the student League of the International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN" has started. More than 4,000 future engineers of fuel and energy and mineral resources complexes will offer their solutions on the topic of "Arctic Development".

The International Engineering CASE-IN Championship is an international competition system for solving engineering cases among schoolchildren, students and young specialists in the fuel and energy and mineral resource industries.

The purpose of the championship is to popularize engineering and technical education and attract the most promising young specialists to the fuel and energy complex and the MSC.

The Student League "CASE-IN" is a competition in which students from leading universities Russia and neighboring countries need to solve an engineering case prepared based on materials from leading industry companies in ten days and defend their ideas before an expert commission consisting of representatives of industry companies, scientific and educational organizations.

In 2018, during the qualifying stages of the Championship, more than 4,000 students from 52 universities will compete in six industry areas: geological exploration, mining, metallurgy, oil and gas, petrochemistry, and electric power.

"The CASE-IN championship allows students to communicate with each other, with young specialists in companies, learn from the experience of mentors, and allows them to put forward new ideas and develop professionally," said Anton Inyutsyn, Deputy Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation, during a meeting with students of technical universities in Russia on December 22, 2017.

The championship aims to attract the intellectual potential of young people of engineering specialties to solve urgent practical problems facing Fuel and energy complex and Moscow TIME Of Russia. In this regard, in 2018, all areas of the Championship are united by the common theme "Arctic Development".

The development of the Russian Arctic region is one of the most pressing topics on the Russian government, business and information agenda.

"The energy sector development agenda is largely shaped by the global challenges facing the country. One of these challenges is the exhaustion of resources and the need to explore and develop territories and deposits, primarily in the Arctic zone. The anchors for the development of the Arctic are precisely energy projects, which form the basis of all other priorities — the transport and logistics complex, metallurgy, etc. Personnel training in the interests of Arctic development is an absolute priority. We aim to attract the best and most motivated students from all over Russia to work in the Arctic zone," stressed representatives of CASE—IN's national partner, the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, during the Youth Day of the Russian Energy Week International Forum on Energy Efficiency and Energy Development.

The new season of "CASE-IN" starts on February 20, 2018 and will consist of more than 120 qualifying stages and a grand Finale.

By tradition, the opening ceremony of each league of the Championship will be held at the universities whose team won the league in the previous season. In 2018, the Sergo Ordzhonikidze Russian State Geological Exploration University (geological exploration department), St. Petersburg Mining University (mining department), Lipetsk State Technical University (metallurgy department), Siberian Federal University (oil and Gas Department), Novosibirsk State Technical University (the direction of the electric power industry).

For the first time, competitions in the field of petrochemistry will be held within the framework of the "CASE-IN". The opening of the petrochemical department will take place at the National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University.

In the finals, which will traditionally be held in Moscow on May 30-31, 2018, the winning teams of the qualifying stages will compete for the title of the best engineering student teams of the year and for the opportunity to complete internships and internships in leading industry companies. The winners of the Mining and Electric Power Engineering Leagues will also have a chance to participate in the annual summer educational programs "Mining School" and "Energy of Youth".

In 2018, the national partners of the Championship will be the federal ministries — the Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of the Russian Federation for the Development of the Far East, as well as the Federal Agency for Youth Affairs (Rosmolodezh) and the Agency for Strategic Initiatives for the Promotion of New Projects.

The championship will be held with the support of leading companies of the Fuel and energy Complex and the Moscow Energy Complex, including JSC SO UES, LLC Transneftenergo, PJSC NKRosneft, SIBUR LLC, FGC UES PJSC, SUEK JSC, MHC JSCEuroChem, JSC Rosgeologiya, LLC Mycromine Rus, LLC VGK, JSC Siberian Anthracite, LLC EvrazHolding, LLC IBM Montan, PJSC RusHydro, PJSC NLMK, United Company RUSAL, Sverdlovsk Branch of PJSC T Plus", Saratov Branch PJSC "T Plus", Siberian Generating Company LLC, Prosoft-Systems LLC, OMK Vyksa Metallurgical Plant and others.

The organizers of the Championship are the Reliable Change Foundation, the Youth Forum of Mining Leaders Non-profit Partnership, and LLC "Astrology". The Association "Russian National Committee of the International Council for Large High Voltage Electrical Systems" is a co-organizer of the League for Electric Power Industry.

Registration of participants and experts of the new season is underway noindexon the Championship website/noindex.

The organizers of the project invite partners to participate: industry companies, universities, scientific associations — all organizations and departments interested in developing the human resources potential of fuel and energy and mineral resource complexes.

For reference

The International Engineering CASE-IN Championship is the successor of the All-Russian Mining Case Solving Championship (2013-2014) and the All-Russian Fuel and Energy Case Solving Championship (2015).

The championship is held in the following Leagues:

• School League (for 9th − 11th grade students);
• League of Working Specialties (for students of secondary specialized educational institutions);
• Student League (for undergraduates, undergraduates, and postgraduates of higher education institutions);
• League of Young Specialists (for young specialists of fuel and energy Complex and MSC companies).

The Championship is being implemented in accordance with the Action Plan aimed at popularizing the working and engineering professions, approved by Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 366-r dated March 5, 2015.

The championship is included in The list of all-Russian youth events aimed at popularizing the fuel and energy complex, energy conservation and engineering education for 2018.

The championship was organized using a grant from the President of the Russian Federation for the development of civil society provided by the Presidential Grants Foundation.

National Arctic Scientific and Educational Consortium