For whom for managers of all stripes: starting from the manager and director of the company, ending with the head of the hospital. It is important that a participant under the age of 35 has at least two years of experience in a managerial position, and five years of experience if he is over 35. There is also an age limit: only people under 55 can register for the contest.
Point Participants in the business game solve managerial tasks. It is important to demonstrate both leadership skills and teamwork at the table.
Prizes 300 finalists receive 1 million rubles, which they can spend on their education. And the winners also have the opportunity to study for a year with one of the mentors, a prominent manager. Among them, for example, is German Gref. Also, after winning the competition, participants can climb Mount Elbrus together with a team of like-minded people.
The Leaders of Russia contest is being held for the third time. This year, 233,830 people have registered for it. In the new season, in addition to the classic management competition, three special areas have appeared: "Science", "Healthcare", "Finance and Technology". That is, if you are, for example, a doctor or a scientist, it is better for you to choose one of them — this way you can better demonstrate your knowledge.
For whom: for all students.
Point: after online testing, students enter the face-to-face stage of the Olympiad. There, they must confirm their knowledge under the supervision of supervisors, and then complete a test task: cure a mannequin's tooth, write journalistic material or program code, present their design work to the jury, and so on.
Prizes: Olympic medalists receive from 100 to 300 thousand rubles. In addition, all graduates can take advantage of the benefits of admission to master's, postgraduate or residency programs and work in a large Russian company.
This year, the Olympiad is being held in 68 areas, which have been prepared by 26 organizing universities. The Olympics will last until the end of March 2020.
For whom: for students.
Point: The participant visits the project's website, selects any task and performs it as part of a course, thesis or other scientific student work. All tasks are real issues that existing companies are trying to solve. For example, you can figure out how to digitalize Russian Post or help Aeroflot attract customers in the Asian market. During this work, the participant is supervised by a company representative.
Prizes: The winners receive an invitation to an internship or internship.
Currently, 4,135 cases from 1,180 companies are hosted on the platform. Among them are the Ministry of Construction of Russia, ROSSETI, SIBUR, Russian Railways, Rosatom, GAZ Group, Magnit and others.
Management Cup "Drive!»
For whom: for university and college students of all fields of study aged 18 to 25 years.
Point: The Cup is held in the format of business games that recreate the conditions of a real market and where participants will have to manage a simulated (virtual) company as a team. Team members need to solve these tasks and demonstrate their professional and personal skills. For successful participants, there are several areas for further professionalization and interaction with employers: "Manage politics" (civil service), "Manage a company", "Manage technology", Manage finances", "Manage a startup" and so on.
In addition to the competition, participants attend private workshops, webinars, and guided tours of the Cup's partner companies.
Prizes: The winners receive a one-week internship (study tour) in Russian companies abroad, a grant of 500 thousand rubles for training in the management potential development program, 25 points for admission to the RANEPA Master's degree program, the opportunity to participate in the Global Management Challenge international Business Strategy and Management Championship, a mentor from among the finalists of the Leaders of Russia, internships and employment in leading companies and organizations.
This year, the Fathers and Children team, which included the silver medalist of the Manage Cup and the semi-finalist of the Leaders of Russia, took first place in the Global Management Challenge final, beating representatives from 20 countries.
For whom: for IT professionals, designers (even game designers), and managers in the digital economy.
Point: After online testing, participants enter one of the regional hackathons, a competition during which they must create a prototype of digital solutions based on the task. For example, this year's finalist, together with his team, developed a 3D model of the pump in disassembled form. This pump could be assembled using augmented reality: the necessary parts were highlighted in a certain order. According to the idea, this way it is possible to optimize production in factories, and then use the technology in healthcare — with its help, future doctors can train to perform operations.
Prizes: the winners receive a cash prize of 500,000 per team, and the participants receive the opportunity to win grants for the development of their projects in the amount of 500,000 thousand or 3,000,000 rubles from the Foundation for the Promotion of Innovation.
The final of the Digital Breakthrough contest took place in September in Kazan and became the largest hackathon in the world. It entered the Guinness Book of World Records, bringing together more than 3,000 IT specialists from almost 650 teams.
For whom: for schoolchildren from 12 to 16 years old; students of colleges and technical schools from 16 to 22 years old; university students up to 35 years old; for employees of industrial enterprises from 16 to 49 years old. In addition, there is the "Skills of the Wise" direction, people aged 50+ can participate here.
Point The WorldSkills championships bring together the best masters of their craft: from chefs and entrepreneurs to designers of neural interfaces. And they all demonstrate their skills. Experts evaluate participants in the following competence blocks: construction, information and communication technologies, creativity and design, manufacturing and engineering technologies, services, education, transport and logistics.
To become a participant, a schoolboy and a student first need to win a professional skills competition at their school, then a regional championship, and then a qualifying stage. The best contestants qualify for the finals of the National Championship "Young Professionals" (WorldSkills Russia).
Specialists of Russian companies are selected at their enterprise, and then compete in the National Championship of end-to-end working professions in high-tech industries WorldSkills Hi-Tech.
Prizes: winners receive cash prizes, their size varies and may exceed 1 million rubles, they can also join the WorldSkills Russia National Team and represent Russia on the international stage — the EuroSkills European Championships and the WorldSkills Competition World Championship.
All 85 regions of the Russian Federation have joined WorldSkills Russia. At the 45th WorldSkills Kazan 2019 World Professional Championship, the Russian national team won 14 gold, 4 silver, 4 bronze medals and 25 medallions for professionalism, securing second place in the medal standings.
For whom: for teachers of any classes, social educators, educational psychologists, educators. There are no age restrictions.
Point: First, participants take a subject and psychological and pedagogical test, as well as a speech culture test. Then they come to face-to-face competitions, where they will have a pedagogical triathlon, which includes debates and case games. Finalists will face three more challenges: an interdisciplinary lesson, an educational event, and a TED-style conference.
Prizes: The winners receive access to online libraries and webinars, a professional development program, development recommendations, an internship at one of the TOP 500 schools, and a mentor among well-known popularizers of science. And the winning teams will go on a trip abroad to share their experiences.
For whom: for people with disabilities from 14 to 65 years old.
Point: The championship is aimed at motivating people with disabilities to receive professional education. During the competition, participants demonstrate their knowledge in more than 120 professions. They are evaluated by experts. The expert council includes, among others, representatives of real business.
Prizes: benefits for university admission, internship, and employment. The winners are also included in the register of the Talent and Success Foundation, whose participants are invited to educational and creative events.
In 2019, 12,138 people took part in the regional stages of the Abilimpix championship, including 4,103 schoolchildren, 6,125 students, and 1,910 specialists. And more than 1800 people met at the final.
For whom: for business-oriented students.
Point: Students come to the competition with an existing project or some kind of business idea, for example, to launch an author's foreign language course, shoot a music video, create a line of jewelry, and so on. Then the participants choose a direction: media, innovative, social, educational, digital and complete the tasks of the contest from famous bloggers.
Prizes: iPhone, MacBook, SonyPlayStation 4Pro, a ticket to the interregional intensive business course, a certificate for participation in the four-month START UP business course, where students learn to work in a team, present and defend their projects in front of experts, participate in entrepreneurial and intellectual games. The winners also receive additional points upon admission to universities (based on the results of the START UP).
The Olympiad of the Circle movement NTI
For whom: for students in grades 5-11 and students who want to become engineers of the future.
Point: The Russia — the Land of Opportunities platform includes the Olympiad of the NTI Circle Movement.Junior is the first in Russia has a team engineering Olympiad, which students of grades 5-7 can take part in starting this year. It includes five areas: technologies for humans, the environment, space, the virtual world and the world of robots.
In total, there are 29 promising areas in the Olympiad of the NTI Circle Movement, including "Augmented Reality", "Virtual Reality", "Smart City", "Space Systems Engineering", "Genomic Editing", "Game Development" and others. Participants choose one of them, and then, after the qualifying stages, they work with real engineering equipment, where they demonstrate their knowledge.
Prizes: Winners and prize-winners can enroll in the host universities without exams or receive additional points upon admission. In addition, they are invited to hackathons "Future Practices" and other educational projects and competitions of the NTI Circle Movement.
For whom: for schoolchildren, students, young educators, scientists and specialists, leaders of local communities and authors of youth projects from 14 to 35 years old (with the exception of the nomination "My pedagogical initiative", which has no age restrictions).
Point: For the most part, young people solve acute issues of socio-economic development in Russian regions, cities and villages. To become a participant, you need to choose one of the nominations, for example, "My Village", "My native language", "My Open Universities", "My Far East", "My Arctic", then briefly describe the project, prepare a 10-slide presentation, attach a letter of recommendation and links to media publications about this project. And upload all these materials through your personal account by February 24, 2020.
Prizes: The winners receive educational grants and benefits for admission to Russian universities, internships or employment, additional USE points, mentors from the finalists of the Leaders of Russia competition, training at the Senezh Management Workshop and other educational venues, valuable prizes and cash prizes, information, expert and organizational support in the implementation of projects.
For whom: for citizens of the Russian Federation over the age of 18 who want to work in the Russian tourism sector.
Point: Participants solve real-world cases that are as close as possible to the modern realities of the industry, as well as present and defend their projects to experts.
Prizes: 50 contestants become winners. They all receive mentors from the industry and an internship invitation. And the authors of the best projects receive grants for their implementation.
For whom: for people from 18 to 30 years old.
Point: Since 2019, the participants of the summer forum have been living in special cabins in the Senezh Management Workshop, which is located near Solnechnogorsk. This is the new educational center of ANO "Russia — the land of opportunities". During the shift, they listen to lectures, discuss, work on their own projects, and have fun. Fun refers to movie screenings, campfire gatherings, and dancing near the main stage. Shifts are dedicated to specific topics, such as ecology, politics, volunteerism, education, IT, and others.
Prizes: each participant can receive a grant of up to one million rubles for their project if they have registered it before the start of the forum, and then if they successfully defend it. You can also receive a team grant of up to three million rubles for a project that participants develop on the spot.
For whom: for students from 16 to 30 years old.
Point: if you sing well, write music, dance, sew designer clothes, participate in theatrical productions or musicals, then you can show yourself in all its glory on Russian student spring.
Prizes: participation in the International Festival "Student Spring of the BRICS and SCO countries", useful prizes, for example, recording songs or shooting a music video, specialized internships, invitations to creative television projects.
For whom: for all people over the age of 8, legal entities can also participate.
Point: Participants send a description of their volunteer project, and the best ones are selected by a federal expert jury and a popular vote on the contest's website.
Prizes: 2 million rubles for the development of a volunteer project. They are also helping to promote the project to the federal level, and they are talking about it in the media.
For whom: for university students from 18 to 25 years old, registered in The Russian Youth Union.
Point: Students who are involved in creativity, sports, journalism, youth policy, community and volunteer activities fill out questionnaires and talk about their successes. The best are invited to the All-Russian intramural stage. There, students take part in competitions depending on the nominations. There are nominations for "Headman of the Year", "Intelligence of the Year", "Esports Club of the Year", "Student Media of the Year" and others.
Prizes: internship, internship in government agencies, mentor from among the award experts, training under a special program in the Senezh Management Workshop.
A source: Intellectual magazine about culture and society "KNIFE"