At the Russian Energy Week, industry-employed youth identified vectors for the development of the fuel and energy sector
The
Youth Day has become a traditional conclusion of the Russian Energy Week
International Forum. On 13 October in Moscow, more than 2,000 young
specialists, students and schoolchildren, as well as heads of authorities,
industry companies and universities, jointly formed the youth agenda of the
fuel and energy sector for 2024.
The Russian Energy Week and
the REW Youth Day are organized by the Roscongress Foundation and the Ministry
of Energy of the Russian Federation with the support of the Moscow City Government.
The Youth Day is operated by the Nadezhnaya Smena Foundation.
The programme of the main
youth event in the energy sector included 30 events dedicated to the promotion
of the fuel and energy sector and engineering education.
The Forum’s central event –
the plenary session ‘Energy 2035: The Future of the Sector’ with
participation of Alexander Novak, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian
Federation – took place in the format of a generational battle. The event was
organized by the Russian Znanie Society as part of the Znanie.Lecture track.
During the plenary session,
teams of invited guest energy experts, executives who have been working in the
field for a long time and know the industry well, and the youth community –
future and current young engineers, competition winners, inventors and
innovators – answered questions related to the Russian economy and energy
industry in three rounds. For example, they discussed what competences an
industry specialist of the future should possess, what and why is more
important for the industry: economic efficiency or environmental
sustainability, supported or refuted the theses about the launch of space solar
stations in Russia and renewable energy sources.
Alexander Novak, Deputy Prime
Minister of the Russian Federation, acted as captain of the expert team during
the interactive plenary session.
“Young people are the future
of our energy sector. Today, 2 thousand young people have gathered here, who
will soon become those who will develop the domestic fuel and energy sector. I
am glad that you have chosen this particular path. Russia is striving for
industrial sovereignty, and in order to achieve it, it is crucial to develop
and support young ambitious professionals. Events such as today’s plenary
session provide an opportunity to exchange experience, hear the opinions and
ideas of future leaders of the energy sector, and it is great that we have such
a platform,” emphasized Mr. Novak.
The
traditional roundtable with employers and young people was dedicated to the
topic ‘A Student and His First Job in the Fuel and Energy Industry’. The organizers presented the results of a
survey on the interaction between fuel and energy sector employers and
graduates of industry-related universities. The moderators of the meeting – Anastasia Bondarenko, State Secretary and
Deputy Minister of Energy of Russia, and Olga Zubok, Deputy Director of the Nadezhnaya Smena
Foundation
– were joined by experts to discuss the work of companies with universities and
students and school graduates. Leading specialists from
RusHydro, YATEK, System Operator of the Unified Energy System, Raspadskaya Coal
Company, ROSSETI and T Plus participated in the roundtable discussion.
“The
roundtable and the Youth Day in general became an effective platform uniting
employers, students, young specialists – everyone interested in the development
of the industry. ‘A Student and His First Job in the Fuel and Energy Industry’
is an important topic for us. The research conducted by the CASE-IN team gave
food for thought and many interesting results that will help shape the future
vector of companies’ work with human resources,” said Anastasia Bondarenko.
A lot of promising solutions
and ideas were proposed by the participants of the CASE-IN championship
projects, which are part of the presidential platform ‘Russia – Land of
Opportunities’.
“I am glad to note that every
year Youth Day hosts events under the aegis of the CASE-IN International
Engineering Championship, which is held with the support of the Presidential
Platform ‘Russia – Land of Opportunities’. The REW Cup was held here, the CIS
Young Professionals League final was held here for the first time. CASE-IN
colleagues are creating a community of young professionals, and today they
invited project ambassadors – winners of different years – to the Youth Day to
promote the project and engineering education in the youth environment. That is
a great endeavour!” said Sergey Kolyada, Communications Director of ANO
Russia – Land of Opportunities.
Young specialists competed in
the REW Cup of the CASE-IN Championship. The Cup has been held at the Youth Day
site since 2017 and allows young employees of the industry to demonstrate to
experts their non-standard vision of production situations and unique case
solutions.
This year, 17 youth teams
from Russia’s leading companies presented proposals to update Russia’s Energy
Strategy on the basis of end-to-end technologies that ensure technological
leadership of the fuel and energy complex, mineral resources sector and related
industries.
The champion’s
cup went to the team of Gazpromneft Energosystems LLC, the second place went to
the employees of ALROSA, and the third place went to the team of Yar-Energo
Branch of ROSSETI.
The final of the CASE-IN
International Engineering Championship. League of Young Professionals of the
CIS with participation of young power engineers from 8 CIS countries was
held at the Youth Day venue for the first time. The finalists – 15 strongest
teams from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia,
Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan – presented environmentally neutral technologies
contributing to the low-carbon development of the CIS power industry until
2030/2035.
Experts named the team of
System Operator of the Unified Energy System the winner. The 2nd place was
taken by the employees of Gomelenergo. The third place went to the team of
BELTEI.
In addition, the
participants of the CASE-IN winners club held their own meeting. The
triumphants and ambassadors of the engineering competition discussed trends in
the development of the energy sector and outlined the key vectors of work for
the next year.
Students of St. Petersburg Mining
University, National Research University MPEI and St. Petersburg Peter the
Great Polytechnic University, as well as young specialists of System Operator
of the Unified Energy System, Oil Company Neftisa and Siberian
Generating Company, who won the Youth Global Energy Forecast project, presented
their united vision of the future of the Russian fuel and energy sector to the
industry community.
State
Secretary – Deputy Minister of Energy of Russia Anastasiya
Bondarenko reminded that meetings of the Forecast
participants with the industry community at REW have been held since 2017 and
have already become traditional: “The Youth Global Energy Forecast traditionally
brings interesting results, but this year is special, as the Ministry of Energy
and the Russian Government are actively working on the Energy Strategy until
2050. Make no mistake: your proposals will be thoroughly analysed and may even
become part of it. I hope participants enjoy professional success and move only
forward!”
35 student
projects and 23 projects of teams of young specialists from industry companies
were presented at the interactive sessions.
The strongest teams among students
were those representing the Ural Federal University named after the first
President of Russia Boris Yeltsin, Innovation Club of MIEP MGIMO, Odintsovo
branch of MGIMO, International Institute of Energy Policy and Innovation
Management, Kazan State Energy University, St. Petersburg State University of
Economics, St. Petersburg Mining University, RANEPA, and Lomonosov Northern
Arctic University.
Among young specialists, the teams of
Mosenergo, Grid Company, System Operator of the Unified Energy System,
NovaWind, ROSSETI, Siberian Generating Company, and Tatneft showed great
results.
For the first time, the Youth Day included the Engineering Development Competition and the dialogue on an equal footing with honoured scientists, which are being implemented as part of the Decade of Science and Technology. Young inventors and innovators presented to the scientific community the results of research and innovation developments and industrial samples in the fuel and energy sector.
The final of the 3rd Oil Industry IT Championship was rich in fresh ideas. Participants in the MVP Development section presented solutions dedicated to the formation of an integrated local system of comprehensive (background and geotechnical) monitoring of permafrost soils in the Arctic region of the Russian Federation.
Eduard Sheremettsev, Deputy Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation, noted that for three years now the IT Championship has been bringing together talented young specialists and students at REW and giving their ideas an opportunity to be put into practice. In his opinion, the project is valuable not primarily for the medals and cups, but for the invaluable experience and opportunities for development.
“The championship, which has been renewed and
reached a qualitatively new level, presented us with bright participants. During
the competition, 300 people representing 25 companies and 23 leading Russian
universities were able to develop solutions capable of ensuring data exchange
between industries and companies in the fuel and energy sector. Yes, not
everyone made it to the finals, but everyone did their best and revealed new sides
of their talent. Remember that today you are generating ideas that will become
the basis for shaping our future,” emphasized Eduard Sheremettsev.
The winner in the students’ competition was the
team of the Siberian Federal University, the second place was taken by Samara
State Technical University, and the third place was taken by St. Petersburg
State University of Economics.
The team of Gazpromneft-Yamal and
Gazpromneft-CR were unrivalled among young specialists, Gazpromneft-ITO took
the silver medal, and the team of Georeconstruction – Software,
Gazpromneft-Terminal, Tyumen State University, St. Petersburg State University
of Architecture and Civil Engineering shared the third place.
The IT Championship also launched a new track –
the P7-Office table editor competition. The track allowed young people to
master the latest domestic software, develop IT competences and raise their
professional level in applying office software products to solve business tasks.
In the competition for company employees, the winner and silver medallist were
teams from Gazpromneft-Zapolyarye, with Gazprom Inform in third place. Among
students, Tyumen State University was recognised as the winner, while the
vice-champion was Sirius College of Science and Technology University.
20 students from
11 technical universities of Russia took part in the final stage of the National
Competition of Final Qualifying Works under the auspices of the Youth
Section of RSC SIGRE and ROSSETI. The contestants presented projects on
electric power, electrical engineering and environmental topics to the industry
community. In the ‘Bachelors’ category, Vladimir Shikhantsov (Irkutsk National
Research Technical University) was the leader, Anna Sorokina (Vladimir Lenin
Ivanovo State Power Engineering University) was the silver medallist, and
Mikhail Titarenko (Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University)
rounded out the top three winners. Ruslan Migranov (Vladimir Lenin St.
Petersburg State Electrotechnical University LETI) took the first place, Emil
Minnulin (Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia
Boris Yeltsin) took the silver medal, and Tatiana Markevich (Irkutsk National
Research Technical University) took the third place.
In addition,
industry-employed youth and ROSSETI executives discussed important issues
during a strategic session.
Participants of
youth industry associations held their own meetings. Electric Power Industry
Youth Council under the Russian Ministry of Energy organized a panel
session ‘Youth Communities as a Catalyst of Global Processes’ and a lecture on
information modelling technologies in the power industry, augmented and virtual
reality.
Young people also
took part in events organized by MPEI, Rosmolodezh, Moscow City Government,
Content Foundation, Rosatom, Rosseti, MGIMO MFA of Russia, NRNU MEPhI, Gubkin
Russian State University of Oil and Gas, SO UES, Gazprom Neft and others.
The Content
Foundation held a meeting with leaders of the fuel and energy sector in the
format of dialogue on an equal footing on
the topic ‘Young People and the Future of the Russian Energy Industry’.
The project
session of RusHydro considered tools for developing competences of a young
specialist in the energy sector.
Rosatom asked the
participants to think about ways to build effective interaction between
employers in the system of career guidance for young people.
The Federal
Agency for Youth Affairs (Rosmolodezh) invited participants to
discuss increasing the attractiveness of engineering and technical professions
among young people. Moscow’s specialized universities spoke about energy
diplomacy and international energy cooperation, as well as flexible skills that
will help achieve career success in the energy sector. In turn, the University
of Finance under the Government of the Russian Federation shared the secrets of
achieving success in the industry.
During the
All-Russian Conference ‘Development of the Fuel and Energy Complex at the
Current Stage – Legal Support Challenges – Youth Perspective’, future and
current specialists discussed the importance of legal support for the
development of the fuel and energy complex.
The day included
an open lecture, an interactive exhibition of career opportunities, and
presentations of production and business processes by representatives of
leading companies in the fuel and energy sector.
The Youth Day was
attended by schoolchildren, for whom a special career guidance programme ‘Current
Stage of the Fuel and Energy Industry’s Development: Providing Legal Support –
The View of Young People’ was developed. During the panel discussion, the
young participants expressed their opinions on how industrial companies can
build ‘friendships’ with high school students and whether recruiting personnel
from school can become a method of supporting school education in Russia.
The Youth Day ended with the final
session ‘Energy of Youth Initiatives – 2023’, where project winners and
runners-up received well-deserved awards from representatives of the country’s
relevant ministries and agencies.
Next Youth Day will be held as part
of the Russian Energy Week International Forum in 2024.
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Partners of the Russian Energy Week International Forum
General Nuclear
Partner: Rosatom State Corporation
General Gas
Partner: Gazprom
Strategic Partner:
Rosseti
Official Oil
Partner: Transneft
Official Partners:
NOVATEK, Sberbank, Gazprom Neft, Surgutneftegas, and SIBUR
Partners:
Metalloinvest Management Company, Tatneft, RusHydro, VEB.RF, Irkutsk Oil
Company, and New Mining Management Company
Business Partners:
Lukoil, Inter RAO, Zarubezhneft, Rosneft, RussNeft, Independent Oil and Gas
Company, Gazprombank, and ELSI Management Company
Business Programme
Partners: Kuzbassrazrezugol Management Company, EuroSibEnergo, Russian
Railways, T Plus group, Russian Energy Agency of the Ministry of Energy of the
Russian Federation, and MMC Norilsk Nickel
Organizational
Partners: Promsyreimport, Russian Power System Operator, Promsvyazbank,
Saint-Petersburg International Mercantile Exchange, UNIPRO, SUEK, Global Energy
Association, Unigreen Energy, Russian Society Znanie, Forward Energo, BitRiver,
and Sistema
Communication
Partner: MAER Group
Youth Day Partner:
Nadezhnaya Smena Foundation for Educational Projects
Official Water: Holding Aqua Group and Volzhanka
Official Supplier of the Forum: Vysokiy Bereg
