Innovative Dynamic Matrix-Type Learning Environment Based on the Example of the St. Petersburg School of Conference Interpreting and Translation, Herzen University, Russia

The paper examines an innovative cluster-type matrix model for training interpreters and translators, based on recent developments in text and pragmatics theory, as well as on the scenario approach in education. The aim is to create a single, multifaceted space for open interpreter and translator training with an anthropological focus, drawing on the achievements in Russian teaching culture and best world practices, including a system of feedback from employers, to enable a flexible response to the needs of the society. To achieve the aim, an innovative interactive system of intensive interpreter and translator training has been developed based on a cluster principle and continuous education quality monitoring. At the heart of the system are a scenario strategy and a text typology approach. What is unique about the St Petersburg School of Conference Interpreting and Translation (SCIT)’s project is the fact that it is not just an educational programme or a system or an algorithm, but a dynamic matrix-type learning environment.It is a flexible model for professional retraining that presupposes a range of basic skills and can fill any gaps in the general translators’ competence and current performance by applying the professional environment matrix. The cluster approach provides a combination of in-person, distant and independent learning components, as well as increased transparency of the educational and professional spaces, opening up future employment prospects.The ‘diffuse matrix’ version of the innovative matrix principle in education underlies the diversity of methods employed by SCIT: methodological pluralism, dominant in the process of training, implies a combination of diverse techniques developed by different authors for the matrix, making it most flexible and the whole approach – customer tailored. It should be pointed out that the external diversity is strictly regulated and targeted by the project’s creators by means of a monitoring mechanism.The future of the model is seen in its use in Russia and other countries to train highly professional interpreters and translators in other spheres (for example, audiovisual translation). It could also be used at the final stage of higher vocational training; as a standard mechanism for improving professional skills and retraining; as well as a social harmonising element (creating new links among academic, educational, and professional activities).

УПРАВЛІННЯ ІННОВАЦІЙНИМ КЛАСТЕРНИМ РОЗВИТКОМ ТУРИСТИЧНОГО ПІДПРИЄМНИЦТВА: ОСОБЛИВОСТІ ТА ТЕНДЕНЦІЇ

The article discusses the contemporary issues related to the specifics of managing the innovative development of cluster entrepreneurship in the tourism sector. High dynamism of the external environment, rapidly growing consumer market demands for the quality of goods and services, intensified competition and a range of other factors urge local governments to make effective management decisions aimed at supporting further development of tourism business clusters that have to rely on compliance and well-reasoned application of methods, principles and functions of strategic management based on modern economic and mathematical modeling toolkit. The study presents the results of research on managing innovative cluster development of tourism entrepreneurship along with providing step-by-step assessment of innovation environment and exploring the sources of possible barriers to transformation processes. In addition, the intensity of transformation dynamics has been measured. The findings suggest an algorithm to run the diagnostics for the sensitivity of tourism companies within integrated clusters to innovative transformations. It is argued that the management framework, with innovative cluster development pattern of tourism entrepreneurship as its structural element, is capable to ensure integrated congruence of interests of all market actors, non-for-profit institutions and consumers, which allows to develop and implement effective policies for tourism and recreational services sector, subject to availability of appropriate management structures, powers and levers of influence. A conclusion is made that the primary function in managing the innovative cluster development of tourism entrepreneurship is the ability to balance the interests of various regional market actors and implement the strategic socioeconomic priorities of the tourism and recreation services sector in the context of sustainable development.

Formation and Development of Innovative Clusters as a Tool for Innovative Activities of the Region

The urgency of the need for research is due to the current trajectory of innovative development of the Russian Federation. In the article, special attention is paid to the aspect of the analysis of the factors that form the innovative potential of the Russian Federation at the meso-level. The study of foreign and domestic experience of the regional innovation clusters functioning allowed us to identify the main trends, problems of development and directions for improving innovation clusters as an instrument of innovation activity in the region. In the analytical part of the study, the analysis of the regional innovation clusters functioning (on the example of European and Asian countries) is carried out. The study identified the promotion of economic modernization through innovation and increasing the competitiveness of industry. Foreign and domestic experience in the implementation of regional innovation development strategies allows us to identify common features of the distribution of regional factors of innovation, advantages and disadvantages, prospects for the formation, implementation and improvement of development programs of innovation clusters at the meso-level. The article defines the positive impact of state incentives and support of innovation activities, the presence of a developed innovation infrastructure, as well as networking between large corporations, small firms, research institutes and the state on the socio-economic development of territories. The results of the analysis can serve as a basis for adapting successful foreign experience in the formation and development of innovation clusters in the region in order to create a competitive innovation environment of the territory, as well as to develop practical recommendations for the implementation of innovative cluster development programs in the regional economy.

MODERN MANAGEMENT AND INFORMATION AND SECURITY APPROACHES TO THE FORMATION OF AN INNOVATIVE CLUSTER GROUP IN THE CONDITIONS OF COVID-19 ON THE BASIS OF SUSTAINABILITY, DECENTRALIZATION AND EUROPEAN INTEGRATION

Introduction. Differences in the understanding of the main management and information and security approaches to the formation of an innovative cluster group of SME with large industrial enterprises indicate the ambiguity of ways to measure and evaluate such interaction and its scope, which in Covid-19 on the basis of sustainability, decentralization and European integration requires further study. Methods. The historical and logical method is used in the article; the method of systematization, classification and theoretical generalization; the method of institutional analysis; the method of system analysis; the method of logical analysis and synthesis; the method of graphical analysis. Results. It is proved that the cooperation of industrial SME with large industrial enterprises makes certain demands on them. Before attempting to cooperate with large and medium-sized industrial enterprises, manufacturing SME must have a clear idea of the state of their activities, their own potential and its use, the market position of goods and services relative to competitors. Therefore, the procedure of diagnostics of the state of activity of industrial SME is developed in the work, the leading one in which is the assessment of its solvency. The competitiveness of a production SME, its potential and sustainability are assessed using available methods. Production SME differ in scale and types of activity, policy of its financing, degree of integration into the economy of the region or production cluster, which determines the multiplicity of areas of their support. Discussion. Market support for manufacturing SME should be directed to intensify their activities - assistance in finding markets, customers and business partners, the use of mechanisms for adaptation of enterprises using the full range of opportunities for administrative support. Cooperation of manufacturing SME with large industrial enterprises as a kind of business partnership can take place not only in traditional forms, but also using its most common organizational and economic models - subcontracting, franchising, leasing and venture business. The use of such a range of organizational and economic models of cooperation will help meet the interests of each of its participants and strengthen the economy of the region. Keywords: modern management, information and security approaches, innovative cluster group, COVID-19, sustainability, decentralization, European integration.

Shaping Students' Spiritual Worldviews Through Fine Arts

The article explains the problems of the current era of globalization, the importance of developing creative qualities in students through the fine arts within the innovative cluster of pedagogical education, the formation of a spiritual worldview in the "teacher-student" system. At the same time, it deals with the issues of cultivating the spiritual worldview of students, which is an integral component of ensuring continuity and continuity in education.