Ten leading enterprises of the Sverdlovsk region will join the organization and holding of the All-Russian educational Olympiad "I am a professional". As the organizers informed, following the results of the first stage, which started in 2017, the Pipe Metallurgical Company trains more than 60 winners.

"About ten leading enterprises in the region are ready to join the work. Dmitry Pumpyansky has already offered support from the Pipe Metallurgical Company and in preparing assignments for the Olympiad, and conducting a winter school in the areas of "Construction" and "Material Science". Now, together with the UrFU, TMK is preparing to expand the areas of training that will be used for the Olympics, "said Alexander Shokhin, president of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs.

Ufa University rector Victor Koksharov emphasized that the students of the leading Ural university became the most active participants of the first Olympiad "I am a professional". Also in the new season, the UrFU is now preparing for the participants two new directions - "Radioelectronics" and "Software Engineering".

"In 2017 about 12 thousand people registered from UrFU. Our student Pavel Semin became the sole owner of two gold medals on state municipal management and ecology. For Ural students, participating in the Olympics is a real step to build their future career, "said the rector..

One of the tasks "I am a professional", according to the minister of general and professional education of the Sverdlovsk region Yuri Biktuganov, to preserve the potential of industrial enterprises in the region and attract professional staff.

YSU Rector Yaroslav Kuzminov noted that, despite the potential of the participants, some of them come with overstated requirements: they are striving immediately to leading positions and high salaries.

They are not at all interested in the success of enterprises.

Olympiad "I am a professional" started in 2017. About 300,000 applications were submitted for participation in 27 areas. The organizers were the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RUIE) and "Delovaya Rossiya" together with ten universities: HSE, RASHiGS, MFTI, Moscow State Medical University. Sechenov, MGPU, ITMO, SPbPU, TSU, UrFU, Tyumen State University.

Diplomats of the first Olympiad were 2030 people.