February 25, 2016 in Belgorod (conference hall of the National Research University "BelSU", Belgorod, Pobedy str., 85, 12th building, 10th floor, 10.00.) We are launching the Mining League and the 2016 Championship! In 4 months, the project will cover 3,000 students from 37 universities from more than 30 regions of Russia, as well as Kazakhstan and Mongolia.
The honorary right to open the Championship was won by the Bumblebee student team for their hometown Belgorod State National Research UniversityAh, who won the Championship last year. The Bumblebee team reached the Finals for the second year in a row and won the Mining League Champions Cup in 2015.
On the photo: The BUMBLEBEE team - BelSU students Pavel Buslaev (team captain), Yulia Garanina, Alexey Starostenko, Maxim Chehlaty - receives the 2015 Championship Winners' Cup from the hands of Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak at the Finals in Moscow.
The grand opening of the Championship in Belgorod will be attended by:
- Oleg Polukhin, rector of the National Research University "BelSU"
- Ivan Belanov, Project Manager of the "Young Professionals" department of the Agency for Strategic Initiatives (ASI)
- Andrey Chesnokov, Deputy Head of the Department of Internal and Personnel Policy of the Belgorod region - Head of the Department of Youth Policy of the region
- Lilia Atnagulova, Consultant to the Department for the Coordination of Youth Projects and Programs of the Youth Projects Department of the Federal Agency for Youth Affairs (Rosmolodezh)
- Irakli Helaya, First Deputy Director of the Reliable Change Foundation, Member of the Board of the NP Youth Forum of Mining Leaders
NRU BelSU participates in the Championship for the third year in a row. This is an event of exceptional importance for the university and its students: 10 teams will take part in the competition at once. The award for the winning team in each league will be a trip to the Finals in Moscow in May 2016.
We wish good luck to the first participants and look forward to the start of the only federal case championship in Russia!