The team of the flagship university of the System Operator won the CASE-IN championship cup

The final of the main season of the International Engineering CASE-IN Championship was held in Moscow. In the student final in the field of "Electric Power Industry", the entire podium was taken by the teams of the flagship university and partner universities of the System Operator.

This year, more than 6,000 students and young professionals from Russia and youth from 13 CIS and BRICS countries took part in the championship. 208 teams, including students from 70 universities representing Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan and Belarus, came to the final competitions, which were hosted by NUST MISIS this year.

The theme of the XIV season of the championship is "Technologies of the future". The case for the Electric Power Industry direction was prepared by specialists of the System Operator, a strategic partner of this CASE–IN direction.

Interaction with students and specialized universities is one of the important directions of the company's youth policy. Of the 15 teams that made it to the finals in the field of "Electric Power Industry", 12 teams represent the main universities and partner universities of the System Operator.

The expert commission of the Student League includes Ekaterina Sovban, Chief specialist of the Operational Regime planning service, Chairman of the commission, Ilya Moskvin, a leading expert of the Personnel development Department, who this season entered the Hall of Fame of the Championship in the "Expert" category, and head of the Electrical Regime Service department. Rostov RDU Dmitry Chub, Category 2 Specialist of the System Services Market Department Svetlana Romanova, Category 1 specialist of the Information Model Service Gleb Umarov, Category 1 specialist of the Electrical Modes Service ODE to the South Veronica Bershatskaya.

The winner of the Student League was the 6901 team of the National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University (NI TPU), the flagship university of the System Operator, which included students of the Graduate School of Energy Engineering Maxim Bastrygin, Maria Sedeleva, Daria Syrovatskaya and Igor Umansky, three of whom, Maxim, Maria and Igor, are studying under the "dual Master's degree" program for a System Operator at TPU.

In second place is the Roma Aeterna team from Perm National Research Polytechnic University, a partner university of the System Operator.

The bronze medal was won by the Energovector team, representing another partner university of the System Operator, the North Caucasus Federal University.

 "The system operator has been the organizer of the Electric Power Industry direction and a strategic partner of the championship for the past 12 years. We work with students at many venues, but CASE-IN is the platform where we interact precisely within the framework of solving problems, practical interaction with the most motivated, proactive part of the youth, who will literally come to the electric power industry tomorrow," said a member of the Board of the System Operator. Andrey Kataev at the awarding ceremony of the winners and prize-winners of the championship.

In the final of the League of Young Specialists in the field of Electric Power Engineering, which took place the day before, the System Operator was represented by two teams that passed the qualifying stage of the case championship. Young specialists of the branches ODE to the Urals – the team "If not us, then the cat", who stopped one step away from the podium and took 4th place, and the team RDU of Tatarstan «Lithium». In the decisive competition of the championship, they presented to the experts solutions for the implementation of future technologies in Russia's leading industries. The Ural team solved the case on the topic "Digital solutions and the introduction of new technologies", the Tatarstan RDU team – "Sustainable development and ESG, technological independence and risk management".

The career zone of the System Operator also worked at the finals of the International Engineering CASE-IN Championship, where employees of the Personnel Development Department communicated with university students who came to the finals in the format of "career dates". The students were presented with educational programs and youth activities of the System Operator.

The teams of young specialists from the energy companies of the CIS countries, who represented CASE-IN in the final of the XIV season of the championship, visited the Main Dispatch Center of the System Operator and got acquainted with the Russian operational dispatch control system.

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). 

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