20 April 17:02
The En+ company will send 3 winning teams of the Krasnoyarsk 7.0 robotics championship to international competitions.
The international robotics championship “Krasnoyarsk 7.0” was held in the regional center from April 16 to 19. It was attended by 523 teams from 37 regions of Russia, as well as foreign students from 12 countries, including China, Ecuador and India. In total, about 3,000 participants came to the competition. The main prize was trips to international championships in India, Thailand and Egypt, provided by En+.
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Company experts – specialists from the Krasnoyarsk and Irkutsk hydroelectric power stations – were part of the jury that assessed the work of the participants.
“The winners were determined in 16 disciplines, and the main prize – long-awaited trips – was won by the FIRSTEAM team (Nizhny Novgorod), the BLB team (Angarsk) and the Beavers team (Ekaterinburg). Thanks to the support of En+, 22 participants will represent the Russian engineering school on the international stage. Another 25 teams received special cash prizes worth more than 500 thousand rubles,” noted En+ representatives.
The holding has been developing robotics among schoolchildren and students in the cities where its enterprises operate on the initiative of its founder Oleg Deripaska for 14 years. Among the supported projects: the annual robotics festival of Siberia “Robosib”, the “Energy in Action” and “Energy School” programs, a network of 11 “Multilabs”. The company also has its own career guidance program for students in grades 5–9. Teens learn how hydroelectric power works using robotics kits.
The Krasnoyarsk 7.0 Championship is included in the list of Olympiads of the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation for the 2025/2026 academic year. It corresponds to the task set by the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, on global competitiveness and the development of domestic technologies. The event is included in the national projects for technological leadership in Russia until 2030 (automation, new energy technologies).
“For us, supporting talent is an investment in the future of the company, in its personnel. We have built a continuous chain of training: from the first acquaintance with engineering specialties at school to targeted training at a university. The “Robosib” festival, the “Energy in Action” and “Energy School” projects for schoolchildren, scholarships and internships at enterprises for students – our task is to show young people that there is a real prospect in technical specialties, and to help them on the path to the profession. The most capable graduates have a chance to come to work with us,” said Natalya Albrecht, Deputy General Director for Human Resources at En+ and RUSAL.
En+ actively invests in education, using robotics to attract young people into engineering professions. In addition, En+ participates in the federal program “Professionality”, investing together with RUSAL more than 400 million rubles in the creation of educational and production clusters for training specialists.
