SIBUR will once again act as a strategic partner of the Petrochemistry division of the CASE-IN International Engineering Championship

SIBUR He will once again act as a strategic partner of the Petrochemistry direction of the Student League of the International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN".

The "CASE-IN" Championship − an international competition system for solving engineering cases among schoolchildren, students and young professionals. The purpose of the championship is to popularize engineering and technical education and attract the most promising young specialists in the fuel and energy, petrochemical and mineral resources industries.  The theme of the upcoming season will be "Digital Transformation".

Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation Alexander Novak: "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.".

"We are developing production and business processes using digital technologies. We are testing various technical innovations and introducing the most useful ones — augmented and virtual reality, industrial Internet of Things sensors, and technical vision. Solving such problems requires a new generation of engineers who possess not only a serious technical knowledge base, but also practical skills in solving engineering problems using the technologies of today and tomorrow. CASE-IN is an excellent platform that unites talented students and leading employers to find new innovative solutions for industry in the era of digitalization.".

The championship includes 108 qualifying stages and the final, which will traditionally be held in Moscow on May 30-31, 2019. The grand opening of the new season of the championship will take place on February 26 in Tomsk at the site of the National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University.

More than 5,000 students will participate in the CASE-IN Student League. The qualifying stages will be held at 56 universities in Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic and Tajikistan. Student teams will compete in six industry areas: geological exploration, mining, metallurgy, oil and gas, petrochemistry, and electric power.

More than 500 representatives of 30 leading Russian companies, including SIBUR employees, will participate in the CASE-IN League of young Professionals. The qualifying stages will be held on the basis of technical universities in Russia.

Registration of participants and experts of the new season takes place on the championship website. http://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.