Two youth teams of the System Operator are in the finals of the CASE-IN championship

Young specialists of the branches of the System Operator ODE to the Urals and RDU of Tatarstan We have reached the final of the League of Young Specialists of the International Engineering CASE-IN Championship. At the decisive competition of the season, they intend to surprise experts with solutions for the introduction of future technologies in Russia's leading industries.

The League of Young Specialists, which is a competition for solving real production problems among employees of fuel and energy companies, the nuclear industry and related industries, is being held in 2026 for the first time in three directions.:

1. "Operational efficiency and strategic resources".
2. "Sustainable development and ESG, technological independence and risk management".
3. "Digital solutions and the introduction of new technologies".

From one to several teams of young specialists from the System Operator performed in each of the three directions. In total, 40 young specialists from 10 teams took part in the competition, two of which managed to make it to the finals from the second lines of the respective qualifying stages.

In a short time, the contestants managed to create adaptive, secure and cost-effective systems of measures to implement a digital business model that is sustainable in the long term.

An expert commission consisting of representatives of educational organizations, scientific institutions and industry companies, having reviewed the decisions of the teams, determined the finalists of the championship.

The members of the Ural ODE team "If not us, then the cat" Sergey Alaverdyan (captain), Evgeny Gorshkov, Natalia Obukhova and Maria Rakova, consider CASE-IN as an opportunity to optimize their daily work processes and develop their creative potential. Last year, this team also participated in the finals of the League of Young Professionals.

"As part of the competition, we proposed digitizing the processes of long-term development and automating them as much as possible using artificial intelligence, which will reduce costs and reduce the process time by more than 5 times. We managed to bring together a team of professionals and talented people, which played a crucial role in achieving success. The championship takes you out of your comfort zone, where you test your skills in an unfamiliar environment, thereby improving them. Now we will focus even more on our decision in order to demonstrate our maximum in the final," said the captain of the team. Sergey Alaverdyan.

The second finalist, the team of the RDU of Tatarstan "Lithium": Maxim Semenov (captain), Artur Daminov, Dmitry Solovyov, Alexander Mainin — all members of the youth council of Constellation, will take part in the final for the first time.

"Participation in the CASE-IN engineering championship is always a challenge for oneself, when in a short time it is necessary to provide a thoughtful and informed solution that meets the necessary evaluation criteria. The League of Young Professionals is noticeably different from the League of Students, here you need to present a specific solution that has high practical significance, but one of the elements of successful project protection remains unchanged — faith in your own decision, without this confidence it is difficult to convince the expert commission of the correctness of the chosen path," said the captain of the team Maxim Semenov.

The final of the CASE-IN championship will be held on May 20-22, 2026 in Moscow. Young specialists from leading companies will present their finalized projects to the industry community, receive feedback from experts, and participate in educational and interactive events.

The champions and prize-winners of the League of Young Professionals are waiting for the prospects for inclusion in the managerial personnel reserve of companies and trips to industry youth educational forums.

The organizers of the CASE-IN championship are the Reliable Change Foundation, the Non-profit Partnership Youth Forum of Mining Leaders and LLC "Astrology". The project is being implemented as part of the Science to Win initiative and the Plan for the Decade of Science and Technology in Russia (2022-2031).

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