Russian Energy Week 2023 Releases Youth Day Programme

October 2, 2023

The Russian Energy Week (REW) International Forum will hold its Youth Day in Moscow on 13 October 2023. More than 1,500 young professionals, university students, and schoolchildren, as well as the heads of government bodies, industry companies, and universities will take part in the main youth event in matters concerning energy development. The programme is available on the official REW website.

REW and Youth Day are being organized by the Roscongress Foundation and the Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation with the support of the Moscow Government. The Reliable Shift (Nadezhnaya Smena) Foundation is managing the events of Youth Day.

As part of the REW Youth Day programme, which includes events that aim to promote the fuel and energy industry and engineering education, young people from the industry will meet with managers and experts to exchange ideas and jointly shape the youth agenda of the fuel and energy sector for the next year.

The central event will be the plenary session ‘Energy 2035: The Future of the Industry’, which is being organized by the Russian Znanie Society as part of the ‘Znanie.Lectures’ track and will be attended by Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Alexander Novak, the CEOs of leading companies and organizations in Russia, and young industry leaders. The meeting participants will discuss prospects for the development of the Russian fuel and energy industry, youth initiatives, and other issues.

“Today, it’s particularly important to talk about modern challenges and opportunities in the energy sector and its importance for Russia’s development. And I am glad that the Russian Znanie Society will again take part in Russian Energy Week this year. On the Forum’s Youth Day, as part of the ‘Znanie.Lectures’ track, we will organize a plenary session with the participation of prominent individuals who will talk about the current state of the industry and its future. There will be a lot of interesting information, which I am certain will help shape the scientific and technical literacy of our young people,” Russian Znanie Society General Director Maxim Dreval said.

The Russian Znanie Society specifically developed four infographic videos for Russian Energy Week on the themes of the Forum’s business program architecture, namely: the international agenda in terms of energy resources, where Russia is one of the world’s main exporters; the development of the domestic fuel and energy sectors; scientific, technological, and digital transformation; and ways to reduce the industry’s negative environmental impact. The winners of national and international industry competitions will be awarded upon conclusion of the meeting.

These events include interactive sessions that are crucial to REW Youth Day, in which teams of students and young professionals will prepare projects to be presented to experts and subsequently implemented. The best works from the Engineering Development Competition will be presented during Youth Day: mock-ups (laboratory or experimental samples), sets of design documentation, prototypes of scientific and technical products, and production or industrial samples. Leaders of the industry and major fuel and energy companies will meet with young people during the traditional roundtable ‘The Fuel and Energy Sector for Young People’, where they will discuss youth policy and important economic and social issues.

The final day of REW will offer a platform for meetings of youth industry associations. The Youth Council for the Electric Power Industry will hold a regular meeting, the panel session ‘Youth Communities: A Catalyst for Global Processes’, and a lecture on information modelling technologies in the energy sector, as well as augmented and virtual reality.

The REW Cup will be held for young specialists, while the final round of the League of CIS Young Specialists of the CASE-IN International Engineering Championship will be held for the first time. Members of the CASE-IN winners club will hold their own meeting.

Special events for young REW participants have been prepared by the Moscow Power Engineering Institute National Research University, the Russian Federal Agency for Youth Affairs, the Moscow Government, the Content Foundation, Rosatom State Corporation, Moscow State Institute of International Relations of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Moscow Engineering Physics Institute National Research Nuclear University, Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas, SO UES, Gazprom Neft, and others.

The Content Foundation will hold a meeting in a dialogue format with fuel and energy industry leaders on the topic ‘Young People and the Future of the Russian Energy Industry’. A project session organized by RusHydro will look at tools that can help develop skills for young specialists in the energy industry. The Federal Agency for Youth Affairs will invite participants to discuss how to enhance the appeal of engineering and technical professions among young people, while Rosatom State Corporation will address how to build effective interaction between employers in the career guidance system for young people. In addition, representatives of leading fuel and energy companies will hold an interactive exhibition of vacancies and a presentation of production and business processes for all participants.

The programme will also feature the final stages and award ceremonies for the winners of federal and corporate events, including the presentation of the Youth Global Energy Development Forecast, the national competition of final qualifying works on electrical power and electricity-related topics with the management of Rosseti, as well as the oil industry IT championship.

Schoolchildren will also take part in the REW Youth Day 2023: a special career guidance path has been developed to introduce them to the Russian fuel and energy industry and the companies participating in REW. During a panel discussion, young participants will think about how industrial companies can build ‘friendships’ with high school students and whether recruiting personnel directly out of school could become a method for supporting school education in Russia.

An open lecture hall will be available for participants throughout the day.

Youth Day will conclude with the traditional session ‘Energy of Youth Initiatives 2024’, during which the winners of the 2023 youth competitions will receive awards. The session will help to shape the agenda of youth events and initiatives for 2024.

Registration for Youth Day participants will remain open until 30 September on the website of the Russian Energy Week International Forum rusenergyweek.com.

Registration of participants in interactive sessions

Russian Energy Week International Forum is being organized by the Roscongress Foundation and the Russian Ministry of Energy with the support of the Moscow Government.

Please visit the Forum’s official website to view the business programme architecture.

Official website of REW: rusenergyweek.com.

Follow the latest news about REW and the industry on the official REW page on VKontakte.

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