Global Role Of University In Sustainable Development Society

Abstract

The pandemic of coronavirus COVID-19 forces humanity to rethink the fundamental foundations of society as set forth in the futurological theories of «super-industrial society», «post-industrial society», «information / network society», «knowledge society», societies of «pluralistic industrialism», «consumer societies», «risk societies» or «human-made risk». Under the conditions of uncertainty, instability, insecurity of social reality, the idea of synthesis of theories in the concept of a society of «sustainable development» is substantiated, one of the leading criteria of which is provision of security. General scientific methods are used. The comparative method is applied to the theories of society, the prognostic method is applied to trends in the development of society and the modeling method is applied to the society of the future, the University the Future and its graduates. According to the analysis of the concept of sustainable development, the formation of a model of a network society of «safe development» is forecasted. It is predicted that university will become more important in cluster-network interaction (university - business - state). The global role of university in the establishment of a network society of sustainable / safe development is approved. The article reveals the role of the university of the network society of safe development in the formation of the worldview of sustainable development among modern students (of generation Z), as well as the ways and methods of its formation. Generational and global values are analyzed, new (or demanded) competencies of a future university graduate are revealed.