CASE-IN 2018: the focus is on the development of the Arctic

The new season of the International Engineering CASE-IN Championship has started. This year, the leitmotif of the intellectual competition will be the development of the Arctic. The organizers of the Championship (Reliable Shift Foundation, AstroLogika LLC, NP Youth Forum of Mining Leaders) believe that in this way they will be able not only to draw the attention of young people to the problems of this region, but also to outline ways to solve them. This was stated by Artem Korolev, Director of the Reliable Change Foundation.

— Artyom Sergeevich, than the current one CASE-IN is it different from the championships of previous years?

— First of all, the fact that now CASE-IN is a system of competitions for solving engineering cases and consists of four leagues.: Leagues of schoolchildren, Leagues of students of secondary special educational institutions, the League of Students and the League of Young Professionals. We hope that within the framework of the Championship we will be able to reach even more regions, universities, industry companies, talented young people, and the CASE-IN will contribute to the popularization of engineering and technical specialties.

Secondly, thanks to active cooperation with the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, for the first time we have a common theme of the Championship for the whole year, which we designated as "Arctic Development". This topic was chosen for a reason: it is no secret that today the Far North is facing an acute problem of resource depletion, which means that it is necessary to focus on the development and development of territories and deposits in the Arctic zone. Since energy projects are anchored for the development of the Arctic, which are based on all other priorities – the transport and logistics complex, metallurgy, and others, attracting motivated students from all over Russia to work in the Arctic zone is one of the priorities of the state.

— What do you personally associate the Arctic with?

— First of all, with travel, the Far North, polar bears and something else that is still unattainable. And also with the discoveries that will surely happen when our country pays more attention to the development of this region, both in terms of mining and in terms of improving people's living standards.

— Do you think the participants of the Championship will be able to contribute to the development of the Arctic?

— Of course, because we will draw attention to this topic, tell young people that there is such a region, it is developing, and the state plans to send good investments there. Consequently, infrastructure will improve in the Far North, new facilities and new jobs will appear. The guys will have to solve the most interesting engineering problems dedicated to this region. Having assessed the situation with a fresh look, they will be able to formulate proposals for the development of the Arctic, and then bring them to the industry companies supporting the Championship and representatives of industry departments.

I would like to emphasize that the topic of Arctic development in 2018 will unite all the leagues of the CASE-IN championship, and the search for practical solutions for the development of the Arctic region will cover three youth audiences: schoolchildren, students and young professionals. The first ideas for the development of support zones in the Arctic region have already been proposed by young specialists of the Fuel and Energy Complex and the Moscow Energy Complex during the competition of the League of Young Specialists CASE-IN, in December 2017, Russian schoolchildren participating in the School League joined the search for solutions for the Arctic. Overall, we estimate that more than 4,000 students will start working on the topic "The New Integration Future of the Russian Arctic" in the new CASE-IN season.

— Artem Sergeyevich, as far as we know, the Championship CASE-IN It was included in the List of all-Russian youth events aimed at popularizing the fuel and energy complex, energy conservation, and engineering and technical education for 2018. Could you tell us more about this?

— As part of the Youth Day of the Russian Energy Week, a round table "Popularization of engineering professions, engineering and technical education and the development of new technologies" was held under the chairmanship of Anton Inyutsyn, Deputy Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation, Lyudmila Ogorodova, Deputy Minister of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, and Roman Kamaev, Deputy Head of the Federal Agency for Youth Affairs. At this event, initiatives aimed at increasing public interest in modern engineering, the introduction of new technologies in the fuel and energy sector, and the participation of young people in solving energy conservation and energy efficiency problems were presented. The central idea of all the initiatives was the direct participation of young people in them, the possibility of involving the general public, as well as the systematic coordinated implementation of the proposed projects. More than 100 representatives of the management of leading fuel and energy companies participated in the discussion, including: JSC SO UES, JSC SUEK, PJSC FGC UES, PJSC ROSSETI, JSC Rosgeologiya, JSC Siberian Anthracite, LLC Siberian Generating Company, PJSC Gazprom Neft Rosneft Oil Company, Zarubezhneft JSC, SIBUR LLC, RusHydro PJSC, LUKOIL PJSC and many others, and industry education was represented by over 25 universities that train specialists in the fuel and energy complex and related industries.

Following the results of the round table, a list of all-Russian youth events aimed at popularizing the fuel and energy complex, energy conservation and engineering education for 2018 was formed. First of all, it aims to unite stakeholders — the government, industry companies, universities — in working to increase the prestige of engineering and technical education and attract talented young people to the fuel and energy industry. In addition, it is assumed that thanks to this List, we will be able to achieve a synergetic effect from the implementation of initiatives and projects for young people, as well as use the intellectual potential of the new generation to solve real practical problems facing the Russian fuel and energy complex. The List is based on already proven federal projects, the effectiveness of which has been proven by the growing number of participants and practical contribution to the development of the Russian fuel and energy complex, for example, the All—Russian Energy Saving Festival #Together Brighter and the International CASE-IN Championship, as well as new global initiatives.

This will be a large-scale federal project, which has already been joined by more than 50 industry companies and about the same number of universities across the country. The culmination of this work will be a Youth Day.  The Russian Energy Week International Forum on Energy Efficiency and Energy Conservation, where we will summarize the results and set new goals.

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