Vladimir Kirillov, Vice-Governor of St. Petersburg, welcomed the participants of the "CASE-IN" at the St. Petersburg Mining

Today at St. Petersburg The University of Mining hosted the grand opening of the International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN" in the student areas of "Mining" and "Oil and Gas business".

The participants of the competition were welcomed by Vice-Governor Vladimir Kirillov. He noted that this international project is actively supported by the Government. St. Petersburg since the first year of its existence. "In modern conditions, the quality of engineering personnel is becoming one of the key factors for the competitiveness of the city and the state as a whole, because those cities and countries that are able to create breakthrough technologies and build their own powerful production base on their basis are becoming leaders in global development."- said the vice governor.

He stressed that the city's leadership pays great attention to supporting both young talented people and established scientists, and actively implements grant and scholarship support programs for students, postgraduates, scientists and candidates of sciences at universities and academic institutions. This year, as a result of competitive selections, more than 1,900 people received grants and scholarships, over 40% of which went to support developments in the engineering and technical field.

The Vice Governor noted that following the chosen Strategy of socio-economic development of the city, despite the external political pressure, gives stable results. According to the results of 2017, the industrial production index in St. Petersburg It amounted to 105.5%, which is higher than in Russia. The turnover of organizations increased by 2.9% and amounted to 11.7 trillion rubles. In total, the city budget received more than 512 billion rubles last year.

Speaking about the development of the Arctic region, to which this year's International Championship is dedicated, Vladimir Kirillov noted that our city has rich traditions in the development of the Arctic zone, has appropriate managerial, scientific, industrial and educational potential. St. Petersburg A whole range of scientific and research organizations and high-tech industrial enterprises are concentrated, whose activities are aimed at solving problems related to the development of the Arctic.

Vladimir Kirillov expressed confidence that the results of the championship will present original and innovative solutions that will bring the Arctic region of Russia to a new stage of development in the future.

At the end of the ceremony, the first qualifying stages of the "CASE-IN" were held, during which the participants of the championship presented their solutions to engineering cases on a single topic "Arctic Development".

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The CASE-IN Championship is an international system of competitions for solving engineering cases among schoolchildren, students and young specialists in the fuel and energy and mineral resource industries.

The purpose of the Championship is to popularize engineering and technical education and attract the most promising young specialists to the fuel and energy complex and the MSC.

The CASE-IN Student League is a competition in which students of leading universities in Russia and neighboring countries need to solve an engineering case prepared based on materials from leading industry companies in ten days and defend their ideas before an expert commission consisting of representatives of industry companies, scientific and educational organizations.

In 2018, during the qualifying stages of the Championship, more than 4,000 students from 52 universities will compete in six industry areas: geological exploration, mining, metallurgy, oil and gas, petrochemistry, and electric power.

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