The final of the VII CASE-IN Championship will be held in Moscow

More than 500 young specialists and future engineers from 60 regions of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan will take part in the final VII The International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN" – one of the projects of the Russia – the Land of Opportunities platform. The finalists will present their ideas on digitalization of fuel and energy and mineral resource complexes to the expert community.

The CASE-IN Championship is an international competition system for solving engineering cases among schoolchildren, students and young specialists of fuel and energy and mineral resource complexes.

The CASE-IN championship competitions are held in several leagues: the school league, the league of working specialties, the student league, the league of young professionals and the special league.

The event in Moscow will bring together participants who have successfully competed in the competitions of the student league and the League of Young Professionals, which took place from February 26 to April 30 and from February 26 to April 9, respectively. The final for the school league participants will be held in July 2019.

More than 4,724 students from 57 leading technical universities in Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan and young specialists from 40 major fuel and energy companies and the Moscow Energy Complex competed for a ticket to the finals of the VII CASE-IN season. The work of the participants was evaluated by experts from more than 300 industry companies.

The decisions of the teams will be evaluated by an expert commission, which will include representatives of the partner companies of the championship. Among them: JSC SO UES, PJSC AK ALROSA, PJSC Tatneft, OOO Transneftenergo, PJSC SIBUR Holding, GC ROSATOM, PJSC FGC UES, JSC MHC EuroChem, JSC Rosgeologiya, LLC Mycromine Rus, NLMK PJSC, Siberian Anthracite JSC, United RUSAL Company, Russian Copper Company JSC, EvrazHolding LLC, Raspadskaya Coal Company LLC, Siberian Generating Company LLC, CREDO-DIALOG COMPANY LLC, RusHydro PJSC, Prosoft LLC-Systems, Vostochnaya Mining Company LLC, and others.

In addition to competing in case defense, the finalists will be able to meet and communicate with representatives of the largest fuel and energy companies and the Moscow Energy Complex at the closed Career Day of the championship. Leading companies in the fuel and energy and mineral resource complexes will offer internships, internships, training in specialized programs at universities, as well as accelerated selection to the personnel reserve.

A special master class for the finalists will be conducted by Oleg Braginsky, founder of the Bureau of Braginsky and the School of Troublemakers. The final will culminate with the awarding ceremony for the champions and prize–winners of the championship, which will be attended by representatives of the Russian Ministry of Energy, the Federal Agency for Youth Affairs (Rosmolodezh), as well as the NGO Russia - Land of Opportunities and other agencies.

The champions will receive the CASE-IN cup and the title of the best youth engineering teams of the Digital Transformation season. The winners and prize-winners will be able to enroll in master's and postgraduate studies at leading Russian universities without entrance tests, and the team of champions in the electric power industry will go to the All-Russian Summer Educational Forum "Energy of Youth" in the Stavropol Territory.

All winners and champions will receive valuable prizes and memorable gifts, as well as participation in corporate youth forums of CASE-IN partner companies. A special award will be presented in the nomination "The best solution aimed at energy efficiency (energy saving)": the authors of the best ideas will receive flagship smartphones from the titular partner of the championship, LLC Transneftenergo.

A common gift will be "Rock MM", a traditional annual concert for the participants of the championship finals from the Mycromine company. The award ceremony will also include the presentation of the award for universities "Energy of Education" for the best organization of the qualifying stage of the championship.

A source: Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation