Chumak Elena Vasilyevna Ural State University of Economics Candidate of Sciences (Economics), Associate Professor, Associate Professor of the Department of Management and Entrepreneurship

Krakovetskaya Inna ValentinovnaNational Research Tomsk State University Doctor of Economic Sciences, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of the Department of Strategic Management and Marketing

International Youth Olympiad of Scientific and Applied Works – Progressive Technologies of Production Management is held in cooperation with National Research Tomsk State University.

The purpose of the Olympiad is to identify and develop the participants' creative abilities, to provoke interest in research work in the field of production and process management within the context of automation and digitalization of the economy, to create conditions necessary for supporting young scientists, to promote scientific knowledge, to attract scientists and practitioners from the relevant fields to work with young people, to identify the gifted youth and to build up human resources for research, production, management and entrepreneurial activities.

The participants of the Olympiad are students, postgraduate students, postgraduate degree seekers and young research workers from universities and academic institutions in Russia and foreign countries, as well as employees of other interested organizations under the age of 35.

Research papers for the Olympiad should be sent individually or in teams of up to 2 persons.

Applications for the participation in the Competition, research papers and abstracts of papers should be submitted before the 20^th of March 2023 through the registration system on the website.

Lists of the competition finalists, who will be invited to the public presentation of their papers and participation in the final events of the Forum, will be published on the Competition webpage from the 1 ^st until  the 10^th of April 2023.

The public presentation will take place on the 26^th of April 2023 from 10:30 to 15:30. The award ceremony will take place on the 27^th of April 2023 from 13.30 to 15:00.

The winners and runner-ups in each section of the Olympiad will be awarded diplomas, medals and cash prizes:

• 1^st place – 15 000 rubles
• 2^nd place – 10 000 rubles
• 3^rd place – 5 000 rubles

The winners of the Olympiad, awarded the 1^st degree Diplomas, will receive points for individual achievements at the admission to USUE for master's programs (2 points). 

Upon termination of the final events, we are planning to release a collection of materials from the XIII EEYF with the abstracts of the finalists’ works. This collection will be included in the RSCI (Russian Science Citation Index) and placed on the website of Ural State University of Economics.

Participation in competition is also possible using remote technologies – registered participants and experts will get access to USUE cloud resources via the MS Office 365 platform and will be able to join the interactive sessions as part of the organized events through teams created in MicrosoftTeams.