Power Industry Professions of the Future Discussed in Moscow

On 14 April 2017, Moscow hosted the New Professions in the power industry of the digital economy round-table as part of the International Moscow Education salon.

Moscow International Education Fair (MIEF) is the largest event in the education sector of Russia: open forum and the largest exhibition of new educational technologies and innovative projects in the country. The Fair forum is a platform for the development of dialogue between educational and expert communities, state institutions and businesses devoted to urgent issues related to the present and future state of the educational system; exhibition space of the Fair is a platform for presentation of advanced technologies, new educational services, infrastructural and intellectual solutions.

The round-table went with support from the Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation, the Russian National Committee of CIGRE (RNC CIGRE) and the Federal Grid Company of the Unified Energy System (FGC UES).

Representatives of the industry and the science discussed professions of the future power industry to be in demand, coordination between the corporate sector and universities, approaches to improve professional training of human resources needed by the industry.

Andrey Cherezov, Dpty Minister of Energy, Veniamin Kaganov, Dpty Minster of Education and Science, Strategic Initiatives Agency and Strategic Development Center representatives, Rosseti, FGC UES, System operator of the unified system, Rosatom, universities and industry experts took part in the event.

The participants discussed issues on professional competences development with power engineers and creation of the state’s demand for specialists’ training to new professions.

Alexander Slavinsky, Chairman of SC D1 RNC CIGRE and Chairman of the Board of Directors at Izolyator made a report on “Necessity of advance professional training of human resources for the power industry. Outlook of the world’s sector-wide community.” He gave details about attraction and professional training of young specialists at power industry companies.

During votes, the most demanded and prospective occupations of the future were named, e.g. cybersecurity of power industry facilities, digital systems management of power facilities and intellectual power networks.

Delegations of FGC UES and RNC CIGRE met with Veniamin Kaganov, Dpty Minister of Education and Science during the event. The sides discussed development of the youth section of the Committee.

Round-table “New Professions in the power industry of the digital economy”

We would like to thank the organizers of the round-table for the invitation and the high level of its execution!