All-Russian Fuel and Energy Case Solving Championship: MISiS begins!

The grand opening of the All-Russian Fuel and Energy Case Solving Championship will take place in Moscow on February 27, 2015.

Championship includes 3 independent leagues: Electric power industry, Mining, Geological exploration. More than 30 universities of Russia and Kazakhstan, more than 2,000 students of power engineering and mining engineers participate in the Championship.

The championship is supported by the Ministry of Energy, the Ministry of Education and Science, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Russian Federation, the Federal Agency for Youth Affairs and the Agency for Strategic Initiatives.

Anatoly Yanovsky, Deputy Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation: "According to the Russian Ministry of Energy, the Championship will help identify and support promising students and postgraduates of specialized universities, promote their acquisition of practical knowledge, experience and new competencies, enhance the image of a fuel and energy sector employee and popularize engineering and technical education."

By the organizers The Reliable Change Foundation, the Non-Profit Partnership Youth Forum of Mining Leaders and the Non-Profit Partnership Russian National Committee of the International Council for Large High Voltage Electrical Systems (NP RNC CIGRE) are participating in the Championship.

Official partners of the Championship: The Global Energy Non-Profit Partnership, the Russian Independent Trade Union of Coal Industry Workers, Rosinformugol CJSC, the World Mining Congress, the Vernadsky State Geological Museum of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Academy of Mining Sciences, the Scientific and Technical Council of the Unified Energy System Non-Profit Partnership, the Interregional Industrial Association of Employers of Energy Suppliers, and others.

Championship fuel and energy companies support, those who are not indifferent to the development of the personnel potential of the fuel and energy complex: JSC Siberian Coal Energy Company, JSC System Operator of the Unified Energy System, Micromine Company, JSC MHC EuroChem, JSC Evraz, JSC Yuzhkuzbassugol, LLC RUSSDRAGMET, IMC Montan Group, DMT, JSC Rosgeologiya, JSC TGK-9, JSC "VISTA Group".

The Mining League stage at the NUST MISIS Mining Institute is supported by JSC Evraz, the IMC Montan Group, and DMT.

Mining Institute  NUST MISIS, which opens the competition and sets the bar high for the Championship. Mining students are the strongest youth team of miners in Russia according to the Second All-Russian Case Championship in the field of mining, the university also hosts its own case championship CUP MISIS CASE.

On February 27, 2015, more than 120 of the best students and postgraduates of the Mining Institute, consisting of 26 teams, will present their case solutions "Choosing the most efficient variant of the mining and transportation complex and increasing the efficiency of its operation."

The decisions of the participants will be evaluated by an expert jury consisting of industry experts, university representatives and heads of partner companies of the Championship: Gennady Sharapov, Head of the Coal Mining Development Department of the Russian Ministry of Energy; Anatoly Skryl, General Director of Rosinformugol CJSC; Valery Seidenvarg, Scientific Director of the Krakansky Cluster Project; Sergey Nikishichev, Director of IMC Montan LLC, International Mining Expert FIMMM; Boris Kurtsev, CEO of Micromine; Alexander Shtukin, Head of Micromine Division; Ivan Petrov, Director of JSC TSNIIeugol; Georgy Abrahamyan, Professor, PhD, Head of the Department of Surveying and Geodesy (MDG) of NUST MISIS; Vladimir Melnik, Professor,Doctor of Technical Sciences, Head of the Department of "Underground Mining of Reservoir Deposits" (PRPM) NUST MISIS; Denis Pastikhin, Professor, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Head of the Department of Technology, Mechanization and Organization of Open-pit Mining at NUST MISIS; Denis Tibilov, Professor, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Head of the Department of Economics of Mining Production at NUST MISIS; N.O. Kaledina, Professor, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Head of the Department of Aerology and Occupational Safety at NUST MISIS; Alexey Kashirsky, UMO Engineer, Assistant to the Department. TO, Deputy Head of the MBA Program at NUST MISIS; Anatoly Fomin, Advisor to the Director of Personnel at JSC SUEK; Valery Kuletsky, Executive Director of JSC Tugnuysky Section at JSC SUEK; Ivan Strogiy, Chief Technologist for Open-pit Mining at JSC SUEK;  Pavel Kushnarev, Head of the Geological Modeling Group, expert at GKZ (Russia, Belarus), competent person at NAEN, IMC Montan; Andrey Shulga, Head of the Micromine Technical Division; Dmitry Cherepanov, Mining Engineer at the Technical Control Department of the EuroChem – Usolsky Potash Plant Mine Management Department.

The winners of the NUST MISIS stage will receive a ticket to the final of the Championship, which will be held in May 2015 in Moscow.

The Mining Institute of NUST MISIS will pass the baton of the mining league. Northeastern State University in Magadan, where the next stage will take place on 03.03.2015.

Official website: http://vseros.yminer.ru/