Функциональная модель влияния системы высшего образования на устойчивое развитие региона

Вестник Пермского национального исследовательского политехнического университета. Социально-экономические науки. 2021. № 3. С. 241–256.

О. В. Котомина

The concept of sustainable development (SD) is aimed at preserving life on Earth and ensuring a decent level of life for the present and future generations. It also addresses modern global challenges. The transition to SD implies a revision of existing values in the economics, ecology and social life. In this regard, education plays the most important role because it is responsible for the formation of the attitudes of a younger generation, and progress in the transformation of formal and informal institutional frameworks.

In order to realize these processes The UN has developed the global program “Education for Sus- tainable Development” (ESD) and formulated one of the specialized goals in the system of seventeen sustainable development goals approved by the UN for 2016–2030. Higher education plays a special role there, since it not only creates and disseminates knowledge about SD, but also influences the process of making future decisions by managers of various levels. In doing so, the question of how higher education systems can influence sustainable development becomes topical. This issue is especially relevant for the regions since that the regional system of higher education, as a rule, is focused on the needs of the re- gion in training professional personnel and conducting scientific research.

The paper presents a functional model of the higher education system impact on the region sus- tainable development. The novelty of the model is that it is developed on the basis of a functional ap- proach and takes into account the mutual influence of the higher education system and the external envi- ronment in which it operates. Such a model will expand the methodological tools for analyzing the func- tionality or dysfunctionality of the regional higher education system and understanding the channels of its influence on the sustainable development of the region.

Keywords: университет, функция, university, function, система высшего образования, higher education system, sustainable development of the region, устойчивое развитие региона