Kondratenko Ilya Sergeevich  The scientific supervisor of the competition, acting head of the Department of Logistics and Commerce, Candidate of Economic Sciences, Associate Professor

The International Research Project Competition for Young Scientists and Students «Logistical and commercial challenges in the context of creating a multipolar reality» is held by the Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education – Ural State University of Economics (USUE) in cooperation with the Institute of Economics of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Ural Branch of the Free Economic Society of Russia.

The purpose of the Competition is to intensify research work in higher educational institutions and to develop forecasts and recommendations for the development and cross-border logistics regulation of goods distribution at the global and national levels.

The participants of the Competition are students, postgraduate students, young research workers from universities, academic institutions in Russia and foreign countries, young professionals as well as employees of other interested organizations aged between 18 and 35 years.

Research papers for the Competitions can be sent only individually.

Research papers and projects for the Competition should be submitted in the following subject areas:

1. Introduction of modern logistic technologies at enterprises;
2. Logistic corridors of Russia and CIS countries;
3. Supply chain management: problems and prospects. 

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 public presentation of their papers and participation in the final events of the Forum, will be published on the Competition webpage between the 1^st and 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 10:00 to 11:00 

The winners and runner-ups of the Competition will be awarded diplomas, medals and cash prizes:

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

The winners of the Competition, awarded the 1st 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.