PJSC MMC Norilsk Nickel provides career opportunities to participants of the CASE-IN championship

"Mining Machinery and Equipment" is one of the youngest and fastest growing tracks of the International Engineering CASE–IN Championship, which is held with the support of the Presidential Platform "Russia – the Land of Opportunities". In just three seasons, it has managed to become an effective training ground for mechanical engineers, designers, and mining equipment maintenance specialists.

In 2026, which is dedicated to the topic "Technologies of the Future" at the championship, the strategic partner of the direction is PJSC MMC Norilsk Nickel, the world leader in the production of palladium and high—grade nickel, as well as the largest producer of platinum and cobalt. The company's experts have developed a case based on real production situations for the participants of the qualifying stages: They asked the students to find technological solutions that would help prevent water from freezing in the pipes and ensure the safe operation of the mining enterprise.

For PJSC MMC Norilsk Nickel, the CASE-IN championship is an effective tool for strengthening the personnel reserve: the company's specialists personally evaluated the work of young people, and took the authors of the best ideas "on a pencil." 

13 teams representing Siberian State Industrial University, UMMC Technical University, Kyrgyz-Russian Slavic University named after B. N. Yeltsin, Tyumen Industrial University, St. Petersburg Mining University of Empress Catherine II, Sergo Ordzhonikidze Russian State Geological Exploration University, National Research Technological University MISiS, Almalyk branch will present their ideas in the final of the direction. NUST MISIS, a branch of Kuzbass State Technical University named after T.F.Gorbachev in Prokopyevsk, and the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation.

The final of the direction will be held in Moscow from May 20 to 22, 2026. The reward for the winners and prize-winners will be preferential conditions for admission to master's and postgraduate studies at leading partner universities, paid internships in the company with the possibility of further employment. 

The "Mining machinery and equipment" on CASE-IN is not about old shovel plants and rusty excavators. It's about artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital twins, and engineers who can program. The technologies of the future are born not in the silence of classrooms, but in the CASE-IN championship. Their authors will certainly make the mining industry smarter, faster and safer.