Ministry of Energy of Russia and Russian NC of CIGRE had the first meeting of the Women in Engineering discussion club
The event was organized with support by Federal Grid Company of Unified Energy System (Rosseti Group). The main objectives of the discussion were to consolidate positions on the most topical issues of the women's industry agenda, taking into account the experience of the club members, the activities of similar communities, as well as the ongoing projects of CIGRE and other associations.
The meeting was attended by Anastasia Bondarenko, State Secretary, Deputy Minister of Energy of Russia; Olga Zuykova, Head of the Technical Supervision Center of Rosseti; Tatiana Mitrova, Director of the Skolkovo Energy Center; Victoria Vostrosablina, Chief Engineer of the Rosseti Moscow Region (MOESK); Alexandra Ryabykh, co-founder of the "Women in Nuclear" foundation; Olga Sinenko, Head of CIGRE Study Committee D2 "Information Systems and Telecommunications"; representatives of generating companies, manufacturers of electrical equipment, scientific organizations and universities. The meeting was moderated by Natalya Ozhegina, Deputy Chairman of the Management Board of FGC UES, supervisor of the Russian NGN activities of CIGRE.
In view of the global trend of increasing role of women in all spheres of professional and managerial activities, considering the achievements of Russia in the field of non-discriminatory access to technical professions, which remains an unsolved task in many countries, the hot topics and opportunities for the development of mutual support within the sectoral women's community with the unifying role of the Ministry of Energy of Russia were identified.
Other topics of discussion included:
- need for practical informational consolidation of the most pressing issues on the women's agenda in the industry raised at various venues, holding a general meeting of the club at least once a year;
- need to present a unified position of all the sectoral women's communities in Russia at the Women's Forum at the 48th Session of CIGRE in Paris in 2020, and to create an appropriate coordination working group;
- need to collect and share statistical data to identify positive and negative trends;
- creation of a separate generalizing information platform at the Russian CIGRE NC's website, where thematic information from Russian and international sources will be presented to public and where plans and results of the community activities will be reflected.
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CIGRE is the largest scientific and technical association in the electric power industry, uniting scientists and experts from 98 countries. Since 2016, specialized forums for women engineers have been held within the framework of CIGRE Sessions. The main objectives of these meetings are sharing experience and motivation. CIGRE national committees in the member countries of the association are actively involved in setting the agenda of the forums.
Currently, the Russian National Committee of CIGRE (Russian NC) is the largest in Europe and the 5-th in the world by the number of participants. Since 2015, it has been headed by the Chairman of the Management Board of FGC UES Andrey Murov. Russian NGN activities implemented under the leadership of Natalya Ozhegina with the support of FGC UES and SO UPS are recognized as the largest in the world. 7000 young specialists have passed through the series of events in 2019. In the Technical Committee of CIGRE Russia is represented by Olga Sinenko, General Director of RTSoft, head of the CIGRE study committee D2 "Information Systems and Communications".