On 5
October, the CASE-IN International Engineering Championship was held during the
#TogetherBrighter Youth Day of the Russian Energy Week International Forum. The
project is part of the Russia – the Land of Opportunities platform, established
at the initiative of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
It was the
third year in a row that the Young Specialists’ League Competition was held. It
kicked off the CASE-IN Autumn Cup – a new wave of CASE-IN Competition which
will have engaged over 2,000 school and university students and young
professionals in solving relevant problems of the Russian fuel and energy
sector and mineral resource industry by the end of the year.
17 youth
teams representing companies of the fuel and energy sector and the mineral
resource energy took part in the Young Specialists’ League. The participants
presented their solutions for the engineering case ‘Digital Transformation of
the Energy Company’ – they determined a sufficient level of digitalization and
workflow automation and evaluated the effect of digitalisation on their
companies’ business model.
The team
‘Energy of Rising Sun’ (Rosseti North-West) won the first prize at the CASE-IN
Young Specialists’ League.
“Participation
of the youth is events like this is a must. It’s a great experience for getting
public performance skills, understanding team-building and structuring
processes. I want to underline the high level of the cases – young
professionals presented a range of well-developed concepts, ready-to-use
technologies aimed at solving serious problems. One should note that, we
discuss the problems here at the championship, that are common for related
industries which produces a good synergetic effect,” noted Nikolay Parfentyev,
expert of the Young Specialists’ League, winner of the second season of the
Leaders of Russia Management Competition, Advisor to General Director of
Rosseti.
The
#TogetherBrighter Youth Day featured the first CASE-IN MediaTEK Special League
Competition.
The project
was organized by the ‘Nadezhnaya Smena’ Foundation and Tomsk Polytechnic
University together with the organizing committee of the Russian MediaTEK
Competition for the Media and Press Offices of Energy Companies and Regional
Governments. The project won the first prize at the Federal Agency for Youth
Affairs’ National Competition of higher educational establishments in 2019.
The task
was to draw public attention to innovation in the fuel and energy sector using
non-conventional methods of promotion and creative thinking.
Based on
the case scenario, students of six universities developed a communication
strategy for building a 11-kV digital electrical substation ‘Sputnik’ in
Voronezh Region.
Press
service directors from leading energy companies and universities as well as
representatives of industry-related media acted as experts in the new area of
activity.
The ‘Vyshe
Kryshi’ team (Moscow State University) became the first champion of the new
competition.
The awards
to the champions of the Young Specialists’ League and of the MediaTEK Special
League were given by the Russian Ministry of Energy Alexander Novak and Russian
Minister of Science and Higher Education Mikhail Kotyukov during the meeting
with the participants of the #TogetherBrighter Youth Day.
The Russian
Energy Week is organized by the Russian Ministry of Energy and the Roscongress
Foundation with the support of Moscow City Government.
