The international League of Young Specialists of the engineering CASE-IN championship has been launched at the National Research University "MEI"

On May 19, 2026, the opening ceremony of the League of Young Specialists of the CIS and BRICS took place at the National Research University "MEI". — key international track XIV The International Engineering CASE-IN Championship. The event brought together more than 80 young engineers representing leading industry companies, universities and scientific associations from the CIS and BRICS countries.

Opening the series of final events, the participants were greeted by Alexander Tarasov, Vice Rector for International Relations at the National Research University of Economics. He emphasized the strategic role of the university as the basic organization of the CIS member states for training personnel in the field of electric power industry and coordinator of the Energy sector in the framework of cooperation between the BRICS countries.

"Today we are opening not just a competition, but a real platform for the formation of the engineering elite of the future. The League is a space where boundaries are blurred, and engineering becomes a universal language for solving real industry problems," said the Chairman of the CIS Electric Power Council in his speech. Taras Kupchikov.

Irina Ananich, Deputy Director for International Cooperation at the Russian Energy Agency, and Elena Litvishchenko, Deputy Head of the Public Diplomacy Department at the Federal Agency Rossotrudnichestvo, also welcomed the guests and participants, noting the uniqueness of the League's format: the vast majority of its participants are foreign specialists, which contributes to the development of horizontal professional ties and international youth cooperation.

On the first day, a networking session was organized for the participants of the League, as well as a lecture on the skills of public speaking and self-presentation. In the near future, the teams will have to go through the pre-defense stage of their decisions, after which the best of them will meet in the face-to-face finals in Moscow.

The choice of the MEI National Research University as the center for the League's opening ceremony confirms the university's high international status as a forge of personnel for the global energy industry and an effective platform for dialogue between young specialists from different countries.

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