From the Championship to the Mountain School!

Mining School 2015 will be held in Primorsky Krai
with the support of the Regional Administration

On March 13, 2015, the Primorsky Krai Administration held a meeting on the issue of holding the 2015 Mining School Youth scientific and practical forum in Primorsky Krai.

The meeting was attended by Svetlana Utyasheva, Deputy Director of the Department of Territorial and Socio-Economic Development of the Ministry of the Russian Federation for the Development of the Far East, Sergey Kovalev, Acting Director of the Department of Energy, Oil and Gas Complex and Coal Industry of Primorsky Krai, Anatoly Fomin, Advisor to the Director of Personnel at Siberian Coal Energy Company, Anatoly Fomin, Chairman of the Board of NP Youth Leaders Forum mining", Director of the Reliable Change Foundation Artem Korolev, representatives of local executive authorities, mining companies of Primorsky Krai and the Far Eastern Federal University.

Artem Korolev presented to the meeting participants the youth scientific and practical forum "Mining School", which the Youth Forum of Mining Leaders in partnership with JSC SUEK has been holding for young specialists of the company for the fourth year in a row. A.Korolev noted that the School's format is a practice-oriented educational and communication platform for the youth of the mining sector. Continuing his presentation, Anatoly Fomin showed the results proving the practical effectiveness of the project and its importance for the personnel policy of JSC SUEK in the formation and development of the internal personnel reserve of the company.

Following the meeting, an agreement was reached on information, organizational and expert support for the Mining School 2015 from the Primorsky Administration, as well as its holding in Primorsky Krai on July 6-12, 2015. In turn, a representative of the Ministry of the Russian Federation for the Development of the Far East expressed interest in attracting companies from the mining sector, as well as scientific, educational and public organizations from the Far Eastern region to participate in the project.

In particular, it is planned to form a national team of young specialists from mining enterprises and mining equipment manufacturing companies in Primorsky Krai.: MMC Dalpolymetal, LLC Lermontovsky GOK, LLC Yaroslavskaya GRK, JSC Bor Gas Processing Plant, JSC Primorskiy GOK, JSC Far Eastern Generating Company.

Representatives of the Primorsky Krai Administration and industry companies are also scheduled to participate in the work of the organizing committee and expert juries of the Mining School.

It is also planned that experts from the Faculty of the Far Eastern Federal University School of Engineering and volunteers from among FEFU students specializing in Mining will join the Mining School 2015. 

The next meeting on the organization of the Mining School 2015 in Primorsky Krai is scheduled for May 2015. 

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The Mining School is a key practice–oriented information and educational platform in the mining sector for assessing and developing the professional and personal potential of promising young workers in the industry, exchanging experience between young specialists and industry professionals, forming effective project teams, and popularizing the mining profession and engineering education.

The Mining School is a federal project included in the Concept of improving the system of training, professional retraining and advanced training of personnel for organizations in the coal industry, approved by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation and the Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation.

The forum is held in the format of an off-site summer camp and consists of practical seminars on the most pressing issues of mining with the participation of industry leaders and leading scientists; engineering cases; leadership development events, personal effectiveness, team building, as well as sports and creative competitions.

The key format of the forum is the educational tool "case method", which involves the search for solutions to a specific production task based on the use of modern scientific and technical achievements in the field of mining, critical analysis skills, preparation of presentations and public speaking.

The participants of the Mining School are young (up to 35 years old) employees of mining companies in Russia, as well as students of Russian universities studying in the specialty "mining".

In 2015, the forum will be held for the fourth time, previously it was held in the Kemerovo Region, the Republic of Khakassia and the Krasnoyarsk Territory. More than 600 young representatives of the mining industry from more than 10 regions of Russia have graduated from the School.

More than 250 of the most promising young employees of mining companies from Primorsky Krai, Khabarovsk Krai, Kemerovo Oblast, Krasnoyarsk Krai, the Republic of Khakassia, the Republic of Buryatia, the Trans–Baikal Territory, the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), as well as students from leading specialized universities in Russia, winners of the All-Russian Fuel and Energy Solutions Championship, will participate in the forum in 2015. cases - 2015.

The organizers of the project are the NP Youth Forum of Mining Leaders, the Reliable Change Foundation, JSC SUEK with the support of the Ministry of Energy of Russia, the Ministry of Natural Resources of Russia, Rosmolodezh, the Agency for Strategic Initiatives, the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia, Rostechnadzor.

The project became the winner in the nomination "Best Innovative Youth Project" following the results of the IV All-Russian Personnel Conference "HUMAN CAPITAL of the Fuel and Energy Complex" (2013); as well as the winner of the 1st category in the nomination of educational initiatives within the framework of the III International Energy Forum ENES 2014, organized with the support of the Ministry of Energy of Russia and the Government of Moscow.