The CASE-IN Championship will be held at Samara Polytechnic University on April 19, 2018

On April 19, 2018, the Samara State Technical University will host the International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN". On the basis of the region's flagship university, schoolchildren, students and young specialists will compete in solving engineering cases in the oil and gas industry, electric power industry and petrochemistry.

The purpose of the championship is to popularize engineering and technical education and attract the most promising young specialists in the field of fuel and energy, petrochemical and mineral resource complexes. SIBUR has become a strategic partner of the Student League of the International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN", which is new this year in the field of Petrochemistry.

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 industry. Competitions in the field of Petrochemistry, with the support of SIBUR, are included in the Championship program for the first time and will be held at 10 universities in Russia.

The grand opening of the competition in the field of Petrochemistry will take place in March at the National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University. Next, the championship will be hosted by Tomsk State University, Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University named after R.E. Alekseev, Voronezh State University of Engineering Technologies, Tyumen Industrial University, Perm National Research Polytechnic University, Amur State University, Samara State Technical University, Ufa State Petroleum Technical University.

During the competition, students will solve an engineering case in ten days and present their ideas to an expert commission consisting of representatives of SIBUR and other industry companies, scientific and educational organizations. The best team from each university will go to the finals, which will be held in Moscow on May 30-31, 2018. Following the results of the championship, the winners will have the opportunity to complete internships and internships in leading industry companies.

"The digital age is changing many business processes and industries. New petrochemistry is about innovation and the search for innovative approaches. The partnership between SIBUR and CASE-IN, the creation of a separate league on petrochemistry, is an opportunity to evaluate the competencies of young guys. The case championship format allows you to develop teamwork skills, solve non-trivial complex tasks, and show your leadership and analytical abilities. As a company, we value these qualities and will celebrate the brightest participants at the competitions in order to discuss career opportunities at SIBUR," said Albina Labashova, Director of Human Resources Management at SIBUR.

In 2018, the national partners of the Championship will be the federal ministries − The Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of the Russian Federation for the Development of the Far East, as well as the Federal Agency for Youth Affairs (Rosmolodezh) and the Agency for Strategic Initiatives to Promote New Technologies projects.

Registration of participants and experts of the new season takes place on the Championship website: case-in.ru .

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The International Engineering CASE-IN Championship is the successor of the All−Russian Mining Case Solving Championship (2013-2014) and the All-Russian Fuel and Energy Case Solving Championship (2015). The Championship is being implemented in accordance with the Action Plan aimed at popularizing the working and engineering professions, approved by Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 366-r dated March 5, 2015. The championship is included in the List of all-Russian youth events aimed at popularizing the fuel and energy complex, energy conservation and engineering education for 2018.

The championship was organized using a grant from the President of the Russian Federation for the development of civil society provided by the Presidential Grants Foundation.

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