EDUCATIONAL AND SCIENTIFIC FACTOR OF FORMATION OF CREATIVE ECONOMY AND SOCIAL SAFETY (WAYS OF IMPLEMENTATION)

Abstract

The article notes that recently there has been a growing trend of the role of educational and scientific potential in the socio-economic development of the country. The essence of this potential and the factors of its growth are revealed. These factors affect the development of the economy and the achievement of social safety – important prerequisites for improving living standards. It is emphasized that a special role in achieving the latter belongs to education in general and higher, in particular, which provides the formation of students' creative thinking, the ability to independently search, produce the necessary information to acquire knowledge. In this aspect, the importance of the introduction of innovative and interactive technologies in educational activities is revealed, which improves the training of graduates of educational institutions for future professional activities. It is emphasized that these technologies should cover both theoretical and practical issues related to the organization of the educational process, as well as teaching aids. Training in these conditions should have a positive impact not only on overcoming the country's economic crisis, but also on achieving social safety. The article presents the structure of social safety, reveals the essence of each of its indicators, provides the dynamics of relevant indicators, including relative poverty, unemployment; food consumption in Ukrainian households as a percentage of total consumer expenditures. The factors and principles, the observance of which promotes the functioning of social safety in the country, overcoming the threats, challenges and dangers of its achievement are given. Among the factors of social safety, significant attention is paid to resource, including financial, provision and its diversification. Revealing the existing shortcomings in the development of educational and scientific factors of economic growth and social safety, the article substantiates ways to overcome them, namely: strengthening the orientation of the training system to create an innovative product at each workplace, forming an optimal environment; active involvement of pupils and students in the process of their self-development, increasing the fundamentality of education, which would allow each future specialist to successfully adapt to new conditions of professional activity, to life in these conditions.