New Ways Of Cooperation Research Articles

ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION AND EDUCATION OF FUTURE BIOLOGY TEACHERS

The article reviews and analyzes the state of environmental education and upbringing of future biology teachers. The purpose of the article is to establish the role of economic education in the education of future teachers of biology. To test the research hypothesis, various methods were used: conversation, observation, survey, questionnaire, methods of mathematical statistics for quantitative and qualitative analysis of experimental data, determination of the reliability of the results. The methodological basis for revealing the essence of the state of environmental education and upbringing of future biology teachers at the present stage of society's development is based on various approaches and principles. The necessity of improving and saturating the content of the educational process with environmental material and creating appropriate conditions for the environmental education of future biology teachers is proved. Environmental education and upbringing are becoming the core of modern education and serve as a key to the restructuring of its modern systems and society as a whole. The role of environmental education as the basis of a new morality and a support for solving numerous issues of people's practical life is especially relevant.The basic principles of environmental education and upbringing of future biology teachers are revealed, such as: the principle of practical orientation, the principle of continuity and consistency, the principle of activity and consciousness, the principle of nature correspondence, the principle of interdisciplinarity. The main approaches to the development of environmental education and upbringing are highlighted: natural science, naturalistic, global-biospheric, problematic, and value-based. The current state of development of environmental education and upbringing is characterized by the search for new ways of cooperation between teachers and students, during which the latter become initiative, independent and creative individuals.

СURRENT MODELS OF PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP IN THE FIELD OF PROFESSIONAL (VOCATIONAL-TECHNICAL) EDUCATION

The relevance of the article is determined by: the constant changes and challenges in the field of professional education and the development of public-private partnerships; the necessity for people to adapt to new technological and economic realities, which requires finding new ways of cooperation between public institutions and the private sector in education; the need for domestic professional education to create effective methodological recommendations for the development of public-private partnerships to improve the quality of professional education, enhance the competitiveness of graduates of professional (vocational-technical) education institutions in the labor market, and innovative development of the Ukrainian economy. Purpose: to conduct a theoretical analysis of public-private partnership in the field of professional (vocational-technical) education and determine the modern models of its operation. Methods: theoretical analysis of the source base – to study the normative documents and laws that regulate public-private partnership in the field of professional (vocational-technical) education and determine its various models; comparative analysis – to identify the common and distinctive characteristics of the identified models of public-private partnership, revealing the peculiarities of their operation; expert evaluation – to obtain recommendations regarding the prospects for the development of public-private partnership in the field of professional education in Ukraine. Results: an analysis of legislative and regulatory documents on the development of public-private partnerships has been carried out; contemporary models of public-private partnership have been identified and analyzed; their features and advantages have been revealed and characterized, which can be used to improve public-private partnership in the field of professional education in Ukraine; the existence of a link between the effectiveness of the partnership and the quality of future professionals' training has been noted; significant opportunities and prospects for this form of collaboration have been outlined. Conclusions. The modern models of public-private partnership in the field of professional (vocational-technical) education include: the partnership model at the legislative level (main attention is paid to the regulation of relations between public and private education entities through the adoption of relevant laws and regulations); the project collaboration model (focus is on the implementation of specific educational projects and programs in conjunction with private companies and organizations); the joint financing and resource provision model (partners jointly finance educational programs and provide access to necessary resources); the partnership model in the form of entrepreneurial activity (includes cooperation with private enterprises and the creation of joint educational enterprises). There is a growing interest from both public and private entities in participating in partnerships in the field of professional education, which can be favorable for the further development of this sector. The positive aspects of public-private partnership include improving the quality of education, expanding financing opportunities and access to resources, and creating practical opportunities for educational attainment. Challenges that exist in the development of the partnership include: the need for legislative regulation, ensuring transparency and effectiveness of cooperation, and resolving issues of intellectual property.

Privileged or ordinary carrier: strategic choice in a competitive environment

ABSTRACT Facing the increasing demand for ocean transportation, transport participants are seeking new ways of cooperation to improve overall productivity. In this study, we suppose a terminal operator would propose an agreement, in which carriers who choose to sign the agreement with the terminal operator could be a privileged carrier, otherwise they can only be an ordinary one. The berth requirements of privileged carriers will be satisfied in priority, resulting in certain operation efficiency improvements. A non-cooperative model is proposed to investigate two competing carriers of two transportation chains about whether to be the privileged carrier. It is noticed that the equilibrium strategies for two carriers are always the same. The operation efficiency and intensity of competition are the two key factors influencing the optimal strategy. When the efficiency improvement is at an appropriate level, it is more profitable for carriers to sign the agreement with the terminal operator. When the operation efficiency is at a high level and intensity of competition between two carriers is comparatively greater, the Pareto-optimal strategy will be selected to be the ordinary carrier. Furthermore, we discuss some extensions to prove the robustness of our main insights.

Albania and Kosovo – Common Ties, Common Issues

Sharing the same language, culture, and except for the last hundred years, history, Albania and Kosovo are closely tied to each other. With common symbols, history, and geography, the two states have had to build new ways of cooperation in the new millennium, especially in the field of transportation, energy, and tourism. The two societies keep each other in high esteem, there is a social will for further cooperation, as well as a common commitment to European integration, which is even preferred over national integration, as it is obvious that in the twenty-first century it is the European Union that can offer a national union for Albanian people.

Cooperation for innovativeness in SMEs: a taxonomy for cooperation design

Various resource constraints of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) highlight the strategy of cooperation for innovation as it enhances organisations' options and breadth of knowledge sources. Nevertheless, research lacks guidance on why, with whom, and how to cooperate and has so far not provided a comprehensive overview of the characteristics of cooperation to foster SMEs' innovativeness. We build a taxonomy based on deductive and inductive iterations. The taxonomy incorporates insights from literature including information science, innovation management, and organisational science. Further it represents insights from practitioners on cooperation for innovation. Our taxonomy delineates the design options for practitioners and advises that one select organisation-specific parameters. With this taxonomy, we conceptually structure existing research and empower practitioners to analyse their current cooperation projects, reconsider them, and gain knowledge to design new ways of cooperation that best suit their aims.

Розвиток науки в Черкаському національному університеті імені Богдана Хмельницького (1990-ті – початок 2000-х рр.)

Розвиток науки в Черкаському національному університеті імені Богдана Хмельницького (1990-ті – початок 2000-х рр.)

FEATURES OF TOURIST INTEGRATION ENTERPRISES

Introduction. The tourism sector is the most globalized sector of the world economy, as it is constantly expanding its activities in the countries of the world, opening up new opportunities for development. Globalization conditions of business development require enterprises in the sphere of tourism to work closely together and to consolidate their activity, to find new ways of cooperation. This is very difficult to achieve in the context of isolated activity, when the enterprise is a closed system, so in the field of tourism to become effective enterprises get open systems, which are forced to create complex business structures, which include enterprises from different fields of activity and different countries of affiliation, which ensures their further development. Purpose and methods. The purpose of the study is to analyze and systematize the forms and directions of integration of tourism and other companies operating in the tourism market in the context of the systematic integration of tourism enterprises in the global space. The research uses such general scientific methods as monographic, system analysis, synthesis, and generalization. Results. The article found that the integration of tourism enterprises can be carried out in three directions: integration in the formation of a tourism product; integration in the promotion and sale of the tourism product; integration of financial support for the processes of formation, promotion and sale of the tourism product. In each of the areas of integration, tourist enterprises can choose different forms of organization of their activities, which forms a system of integration of tourist enterprises. Conclusions. The scientific novelty of the obtained results is the formation of a system of integration of tourist enterprises, which, unlike the existing ones, allows the tourism industry enterprises, depending on the stage of work with the tourism product (formation; promotion and sale; financial support) to choose the directions and forms of cooperation through specialization, cooperation, concentration. The practical significance of the obtained results lies in the possibility of their application in the practical activity of domestic enterprises of the tourism industry to increase the efficiency of their activity, increase competitiveness and as one of the possible strategic directions for further development.

Back to the Forest’s future: Guiding principles of German forest stakeholders and their impact on the forestry sector

Long-term planning is an important aspect of forestry. The future-oriented guiding principles of forestry stakeholders impact their decisions and therefore the future of the sector. Forestry faces major challenges due to global changes. At the same time, the ability of traditional forestry stakeholders to manage uncertainty and ensure sustainable management is increasingly being questioned from both within and outside the sector. To study the shared and conflicting guiding principles followed by forestry stakeholders and how these might shape stakeholders’ actions, we conducted 49 semi-structured qualitative interviews with different German forestry stakeholders, mostly from Bavaria. We used a qualitative approach and linked the “Leitbild analysis” (Leitbild = German for guiding principles) and the sensemaking concept to derive a typology of six guiding principles followed by forestry stakeholders. Results show that the guiding principles of forestry stakeholders are mostly formed around policy conflicts between traditional forest users and nature conservationists. Differences were mainly based on the question of which side would dominate future forest management. In all the groups, the views reflected were mainly negative, and traditional forestry stakeholders saw themselves losing power and authority in the future. We argue that these negative future expectations might narrow stakeholders’ perspectives on potential chances and opportunities due to the low self-efficacy that we observed. In line with the assumption that by guiding today's actions, future images have a real-world impact, we find that current problems might be perpetuated through the expectation that they will remain unchanged in the future. Based on our findings, we emphasize the need for a stronger focus on potential future chances and shaping options within the German forestry sector and the need to embrace new ways of cooperation between stakeholders.

Purchasing decisions making in the context of digital transformation of retail

The paper analyzes the impact of retail transformation on the consumers’ expectations and behavior in the electronic environment and identifies the main directions of digitalization of the marketing activities of domestic retail enterprises at each stage of the purchasing decision-making process. It also systematizes the consumer expectations in the context of the digital transformation of retail, which made it possible to establish the importance of managing customer acquisition for retailers and demonstrated how technology changes the way customers purchase. The results of an online study of the impact of marketing efforts in retail outlets to highlight digital transformation tools at every stage of consumer decision-making by consumers are presented and the main directions of digitalization of marketing activities of domestic retail enterprises are summarized. The legitimacy of taking consumer expectations into account when determining the impact on the business model of retailers, returning it to the plane of mobility, digitalizing the purchase process, and the integration of digital and physical trading, has been proven. It is suggested to consider the main areas of digital transformation as digital interaction with customers, innovation in the development of products and services, distribution channels, marketing and sales; digital implementation, risk optimization, strengthening corporate control, intelligent information management and customer service, managing customer and contact center experience, customer relationship management. This made it possible to specify promising areas of digital transformation in the retail industry, in particular, optimizing human resources, creating new ways of cooperation, attracting labor and assistance (flexible work, social cooperation, corporate cooperation, integrated communications), as well as employee training for the retail industry.

Research on the Countermeasure of Jiangyong Economic Development in the Context of the Comprehensive Tourism

Jiangyong County has no foundation for industrial development, except natural advantage in the development of tourism. In order to realize the development of county economy, Jiangyong County regards comprehensive tourism as a development goal. Based on the basic concepts of comprehensive tourism, this paper analyzes the economic development status of Jiangyong County and the favorable conditions for comprehensive tourism development. It believes that Jiangyong County has rich and diverse tourism resources, government policies and financial support, and then make a new comprehensive tourism concept as a kind of theoretical support. From the perspective of practice, it puts forward the road of industrial integration to develop leisure tourism, integrate folk festivals and resource integration path. The integration of points and layers, as well as new ways of cooperation between industry and sector participation explore the tourism development path of the entire region and look forward to the rapid development of the county economy.

Drug pricing should depend on shared values.

Paying for cancer immunotherapy will require new ways of cooperation between drug companies, insurers and policymakers, says Scott Ramsey. Paying for cancer immunotherapy will require new ways of cooperation between drug companies, insurers and policymakers, says Scott Ramsey.

Adaptive management in agricultural innovation systems: The interactions between innovation networks and their environment

The purpose of this article is to investigate effective reformism: strategies that innovation networks deploy to create changes in their environment in order to establish a more conducive context for the realization and durable embedding of their innovation projects. Using a case study approach, effective reformism efforts are analyzed in a technological innovation trajectory related to the implementation of a new poultry husbandry system and an organizational innovation trajectory concerning new ways of co-operation among individual farms to establish economies of scale. The findings reinforce the idea, emerging from a complexity perspective on agricultural innovation systems, that interaction between innovation networks and their environment is only steerable to a limited extent. Nonetheless, innovation networks can enhance effective reformism by creating tangible visions that serve as vehicles to create understanding about the innovation and mobilize support for it, and by employing several kinds of boundary spanning individuals that are able to forge effective connections between innovation networks and their environment. Because innovation networks can only partially influence their institutional environment, and because unintended consequences of actions and random events influence the course of the innovation process, innovation network actors need to continuously re-interpret the contexts in which they move. This constant reflection by the innovating actors on their position vis-à-vis their environment needs to be supported by dedicated facilitators and monitoring and evaluation methods aimed at system learning. This implies that agricultural innovation policies should, instead of aiming to fully plan and control innovation, foster the emergence of such flexible support instruments that enable adaptive innovation management.

Measuring long-term location privacy in vehicular communication systems

Vehicular communication systems are an emerging form of communication that enables new ways of cooperation among vehicles, traffic operators, and service providers. However, many vehicular applications rely on continuous and detailed location information of the vehicles, which has the potential to infringe the users’ location privacy. A multitude of privacy-protection mechanisms have been proposed in recent years. However, few efforts have been made to develop privacy metrics that can provide a quantitative way to assess the privacy risk, evaluate the effectiveness of a given privacy-enhanced design, and explore the full possibilities of protection methods. In this paper, we present a location privacy metric for measuring location privacy in vehicular communication systems. As computers do not forget and most drivers of motor vehicles follow certain daily driving patterns, if a user’s location information is gathered and stored over a period of time, e.g., weeks or months, such cumulative information might be exploited by an adversary performing a location privacy attack to gain useful information on the user’s whereabouts. Thus to precisely reflect the underlying privacy values, in our approach we take into account the accumulated information. Specifically, we develop methods and algorithms to process, propagate, and reflect the accumulated information in the privacy measurements. The feasibility and correctness of our approaches are evaluated by various case studies and extensive simulations. Our results show that accumulated information, if available to an adversary, can have a significant impact on location privacy of the users of vehicular communication systems. The methods and algorithms developed in this paper provide detailed insights into location privacy and thus contribute to the development of future-proof, privacy-preserving vehicular communication systems.

La cooperación de la biblioteca escolar y la pública: alfabetización en información, “biblioteca integrada” y el mundo virtual

The stimuli of educative convergence between the school and public libraries are examined, within the framework of the new environments and educational models that the Society of the information is trying, a few stimuli tending to a model of cooperation more effective than till now existing. There is studied, then, the educational convergent process, based on the informative competitions on the electronic discourse, for major efficiency of the collaborative and lifelong learning in formal and non-formal education, in order to reach a convergent educative model, whose engine is the information literacy, phenomenon that transforms the educational role of the libraries, particularly the school and public, who find new ways of cooperation, as he is credited in different actions. Authors analyse, finally, two scenes of this partnership working between school and public libraries: the model joint-use, that is defined, describes its typology and their possibilities in future; the virtual world, Second Life and the MMORPGs, that are described, score their formative applications and their incorporation at libraries.

Chronische Wunden - Perspektiven der integrierten Versorgung

In Germany more than 4.5 million people are treated for chronic wounds per year with resulting costs for the public health system up to five billion Euro. Within the next 30 years, the demographic development will result in a doubling of these numbers of patients. On the other hand, the social security systems have decreasing resources and are confronted with rising costs of modern medicine. New legislation was designed to limit costs and to enable new ways of cooperation between hospitals and practioners ("Intergrierte Versorgung" = IV) aside of fixed budgets. According to German legislation, the contract is made between practitioners, hospitals, rehabilitation units and homecare companies on the one hand and public health insurance companies on the other hand. When designing special contracts for IV, the strategic interests and expectations of the partners have to be analysed. In these complex models, financial as well as bureaucratic and others aspects of health care are to be considered including quality assessment. In the case of chronic wounds, specific in- and exclusion criteria, duration of the treatment period and clear end-points (treatment success or failure) have to be defined. Optimizing clinical pathways as well as improved process management should be possible with IV. Low-volume contracts with limited duration and well defined clinical features are probably the best way to establish IV for chronic wounds.