The theme of the International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN" 2019 was announced at the REN

Organizers The International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN" As part of the #Together with Brighter Russian Energy Week Youth Day, the theme of the new season was announced. The topic "Digital Transformation" will permeate the engineering cases of the three leagues of the championship: the School League, the Student League and the League of Young Professionals.

Director of the Reliable Change Foundation Artem Korolev He presented the theme of the new season "CASE-IN" during a meeting on the promotion of engineering professions, engineering and technical education and the development of new technologies, held at the Youth Day #Together Brighter of the International Forum "Russian Energy Week".

The meeting was chaired by the Deputy Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation Anton Inyutsyn, Head of the Federal Agency for Youth Affairs Alexander Bugaev, Director of the Department of State Policy in the Field of Higher Education and Youth Policy of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation Artemy Rozhkov. The meeting was attended by heads of the country's leading technical universities and representatives of companies in the fuel and energy and mineral resource complexes.

"One of the main goals of the championship "CASE-IN" − involving young people in solving urgent tasks facing the Russian fuel and energy complex. We expect that the championship will once again accumulate the brightest, most innovative and well-founded ideas of the young generation of engineers, and these ideas will be implemented in the foreseeable future.", − commented Artem Korolev introducing the topic "Digital Transformation" to industry executives and experts.

To determine the theme of the new "CASE-IN" season, the key challenges facing the Russian fuel and energy complex were highlighted. Further, following consultations with industry experts, the organizers selected three areas for development during the "CASE-IN –2019": digital technologies, technological innovations and environmental technologies.

During the discussion with the partners of the Championship, the priority topic "Digital transformation" was formulated. The organizers of the championship are confident that work on the topic of digitalization of the fuel and energy sector meets the urgent needs of the industry: in September 2018, during a meeting organized by the Committee on Economic Policy of the Federation Council, the Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation Alexander Novak He noted that digitalization is one of the main activities of both the department and the government as a whole, and energy is included as an essential component in the national program "Digital Economy of the Russian Federation".

"Of course, the whole world is moving towards digitalization, new technologies are being developed and actively implemented, including in the fuel and energy complex. There are many examples in various industries – oil, gas, and electric power are becoming more intelligent and digital. We expect that digitalization will optimize costs and management processes, and introduce artificial intelligence that will make decisions."- says the minister.

It is planned that more than 5,000 students and young professionals representing all technical universities and leading companies of the country will participate in the development of a new theme during the Championship.

During a meeting with the participants of the Youth Day #Together Brighter, Alexander Novak noted: "Without the ideas of youth, it would hardly be possible to talk about any significant progress today and in the future".

The organizers are confident that due to the relevance of the topic "Digital Transformation" for the fuel and energy sector and the support of the industry leadership, the Championship will become a platform for generating innovative strategic projects in the field of digitalization of the fuel and energy sector.

In addition to the presentation of a new topic, proposals for the development of the Championship were also presented at the meeting. In particular, the Director of Personnel Management JSC "SO UES" Svetlana Mikhailova She presented the experience of introducing the engineering case method into educational projects for schoolchildren, students and young professionals, which JSC SO UES implements as part of its youth policy. She also suggested using the championship to evaluate and motivate students and teachers: to count students' participation in the championship as completing coursework or research work or a report at a scientific conference, and for teachers to take into account the preparation of teams for the championship as teaching and scientific work.

Vice-Rector for Educational Activities of the National Research Tomsk Polytechnic Institute Alexander Wagner He spoke about the use of the Championship to build partnerships with industry companies, and also suggested introducing championship competitions into the educational process of universities, counting participation in the championship in the personal rating of students and teachers, as well as recommending for publication the best technological, technical, organizational, production and economic justifications for Championship case studies.

New Season The International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN" it starts in February 2019. The organizers invite partners to participate: industry companies, universities, scientific associations – all organizations and departments interested in developing the human resources potential of fuel and energy and mineral resource complexes.