Public-Private Partnership Within the Context of Digital Transformation: Increasingly Larger Role of Educational Institutions

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AbstractThis paper deals with studying the innovative trends in forming the mechanism of public-private partnership (PPP) in education in the Russian Federation, considering global trends. We identified the special aspects of using PPP as a tool in educational activities under certain conditions. We considered various approaches to developing the PPP models and illustrated the relevant mechanism involving a public corporation and an engineering university. Viable models were proposed for the interrelations of businesses, authorities, and educational institutions beyond the known schemes; we also justified their feasibility and showed how PPP activities affect forming the contents of engineering education, enhancing its quality, increasing the qualifications of academic staff, activating academic mobility, and developing international contacts and interuniversity relations.The authors are proving the necessity of involving the authorities in PPP to support the educational institutions of additional professional education (APE) and solving the strategical problems of developing the real-sector enterprises.We analyzed the key aspects of PPP in education, exemplified by a specific university. The findings can be widely used to perform applied studies on the relevant topics, while the models developed can be further reproduced.KeywordsAdditional professional educationPublic-private partnershipEducational innovationsNational projectsEngineering university