WE WILL START on February 25!

Friends! We will start on February 25! And this year, even more leagues, cities, universities, participants, experts and companies are waiting for us. Case-In is Russia's only Federal Case Championship fuel and energy and mineral resource complexes, which will cover 37 universities from more than 30 regions of Russia, as well as Kazakhstan and Mongolia. Over the course of 4 months, more than 5,000 students will compete for a ticket to the Finals of the Championship, which will traditionally be held in Moscow at the end of May 2016.

The International Engineering Case-In Championship, which is taking place for the fourth year in a row, is the successor of the All-Russian Mining Case Solving Championship (2013, 2014) and the All-Russian Fuel and Energy Case Solving Championship (2015) and consists of 5 areas (leagues): Electric power industry, Mining, Geological Exploration, Metallurgy, Oil and gas industry.

The organizers of the Championship are the Reliable Change Foundation, the Non-profit Partnership Youth Forum of Mining Leaders and the RNC CIGRE Non-Profit Partnership.

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 inclusion in the plan made the Championship an effective tool for transferring practical knowledge, experience and new competencies to future engineering specialists, as well as expanded opportunities for career guidance and popularization of engineering and technical education and attracting young specialists to the fuel and energy and mineral resource complexes.

During the Championship, students and graduate students in teams will offer solutions to engineering cases developed based on materials from leading industry companies. The ideas of the participants will be evaluated by a specially formed expert jury consisting of representatives of the fuel and energy complex and MSC companies, government authorities, scientific and educational organizations. The choice of case technology as a key educational tool of the Championship is due to the fact that by solving real practical tasks, participants are involved in the consideration of specific problems and tasks of the fuel and energy complex and the MSC, develop interesting promising proposals for solving urgent problems of the development of the energy and industrial sectors.

Anatoly Fomin, Advisor to the Director of Personnel, Siberian Coal Energy Company: "The Championship is based on a wonderful case study method. On the one hand, this is a game method that really "catches" young people, on the other hand, it is a subject method that focuses on the industry and specific enterprises. In fact, the guys in the Championship are "playing" in the field in which they want to become professionals."

The championship consists of 77 qualifying stages, which will be held at the sites of 37 participating universities. The winning teams of the traditional qualifying stages gather for the finals in Moscow at the end of May 2016, where they compete for the status of the best engineering student teams, for offers of internships and internships in leading industry companies, as well as for participation in the summer educational programs "Mining School" (mining and geological exploration) and "Energy of Youth" (electric power industry).

According to President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, the quality of engineering personnel is becoming one of the key factors of the state's competitiveness and the basis for its technological and economic independence. In this regard, the Championship acts as an additional tool for the development of professional and personal competencies of future employees of key industries, creates an opportunity for government authorities, universities and industry companies to present a united front in the training of engineers of the future.

«The Russian fuel and energy complex employs 25,000 young specialists. Today, the strongest student teams are in the hall, the participants of which will confirm their qualifications and ambition at the fuel and energy complex enterprises in the near future. You will have to develop engineering and management solutions that will determine the effectiveness of specific facilities and the entire complex."Alexander Novak, Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation, addressed the finalists of the 2015 Championship.

In 2016, the national partners of the Championship are 5 federal ministries − the Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation, as well as Rosmolodezh and the Agency for Strategic Initiatives to Promote New Projects.

Traditionally, the project is supported by the largest industry companies. This season, the following companies plan to use the Championship platform to select the most promising students: JSC SUEK, JSC SO UES, LLC SGK, JSC MHC EuroChem, Management Company RUSSDRAGMET, IMC Montan, MICROMINE, LLC EvrazHolding, JSC Rosgeologiya, and the Sverdlovsky Branch PJSC "T Plus", JSC "Yuzhuralzoloto", PJSC "Tatneft", the Oil and gas Company "Sakhalin Energy Investment Company Ltd.", PJSC "FGC UES".

Svetlana Chekletsova, Director of Personnel Management, United Energy System System Operator: "The system operator of the Unified Energy System highly appreciates the Championship and the case study method for the preparation and development of scientific and technical potential of students.  Solving the cases, firstly, allowed the students to feel like part of the professional community of power engineers, secondly, it gave them the opportunity to make sure that the knowledge gained at the university could be used to solve practical problems, and thirdly, it motivated them to continue their studies and immerse themselves in the specialty. We wish this project further development and success to all participants."

The university whose team won the league in the previous Championship gets the honorary right to open competitions in each league of the Championship, therefore the opening of the Championship will take place at once in several leading universities of the country.

February 25, 2016 Belgorod State University will open Mining League.

March 1, 2016 Irkutsk National Research Technical University will launch Leagues in the electric power industry and geological exploration. 

Competitions will be held at the same university on this day for the first time. Metallurgy and Oil and Gas Business League.

The Case-In International Engineering Championship is expecting a 15-week marathon of the closest cooperation between future specialists and professionals of the fuel and energy complex and the MSC. The championship invites 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.