League of Young Professionals CASE-IN: 16 teams will compete for four tickets to the finals

On April 22, 2026, the qualifying stage of the League of Young Specialists of the XIV season of the International Engineering CASE-IN Championship in the field of Operational Efficiency and strategic Resources will take place. 16 teams will demonstrate their breakthrough solutions.

The CASE-IN in 2026 is dedicated to the topic "Technologies of the future". Employees of the leading companies of the fuel and energy complex, MSC, nuclear industry and related industries, as well as other participants of the championship, solve tasks focused on digitalization, the introduction of artificial intelligence and digital twins.

The next qualifying stage of the League of Young Professionals is divided into two streams. The first one will be attended by employees of Taas-Yuryakh Neftegazodobycha LLC, a branch of Nizhny Novgorod RDU Unified Energy System Operator JSC, Slavneft – Megionneftegaz PJSC, Gazpromneft-MNPZ JSC, GPP named D.S. Kosyana LLC, Gazpromneft-Energoservice LLC and Tsemros JSC. The second stream will bring together representatives of PJSC Kazanorgsintez, PJSC Rosseti North-West, Gazpromneft-SM OZSM Branch, JSC NIUF, Gazpromneft-Supply LLC, Bystrinskoye GRC LLC, Amur Gas Chemical Complex LLC and Gazpromneft-Energoservice LLC.

The organizers asked the contestants to create a resource-efficient management model in which production assets, human capital, energy and materials are linked within a dynamic system. The solutions developed in 14 days are presented remotely by the team to an expert commission consisting of representatives of educational organizations, scientific institutions and industry companies.

The two best teams from each stream will advance to the final of the championship, which will be held on May 20-22, 2026 in Moscow. The finalists will present their projects to the industry community and receive advice on how to finalize them. Champions and prize-winners will have the opportunity to join the management personnel reserve of companies and travel to industry youth educational forums.

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