‘Imprensa Jovem’: São Paulo city ́s MIL successful public policy for municipal basic education

In consonance to UNESCO Media and Information Literacy (MIL) Cities concept and recognizing the importance of initiatives that ensure that all citizens have access to media and information competencies for sus­ tainable development of MIL communities and informed citizenry, this article presents the successful Imprensa Jovem (Youth Press) Educa­ tional Municipal Programme of the city of São Paulo, Brazil: the most populous city of South America, with 12 million inhabitants, marked by high levels of social inequality. Imprensa Jovem was one of the winners of UNESCO MIL Alliance Awards 2020. In the two decades, more than 25.000 teachers and 60.000 students were trained in MIL by the mu­ nicipal education system of São Paulo. It addresses MIL in Basic For­ mal Education Curriculum by allowing teachers and students to acquire competencies of both (Media and Information) through participatory processes, approaching different media languages; critical reading of media, TICs, and SDGs within school news agencies.

Economics of Sustainable Development (Problems and Prospects of Formation)

The present study examines the coming crisis of economic science, which does not correspond to the changes taking place in the world economy. Economic concepts based on gross domestic prod-uct calculation cannot adequately reflect the ever-increasing impact of environmental and social fac-tors on the life of society. Scientific centers in West-ern countries are intensively working on creation of indices that take into account the changes in the environment and their economic consequences, as well as their impact on the quality of life of the population. These studies show how urgent is the need for the transition of economic science from the concept of GDP to the socio-economic one. Sus-tainable development indices developed by leading research centers reveal the contours of a new, green economic science. The authors think it expedient to apply new tools with regard to contemporary Rus-sian realia.

Health Inequality as an Object of Scientific Discourse: Main Approaches and Directions in the International Studies

Social inequality in health as a global social prob-lem, which refers to one of the traditional questions of the scientific and public discourse due to the importance of health in the life of the individual and society as a whole. Overcoming socially determined differences in the health status of certain social groups, between the population of different coun-tries is a priority task of the «2030 Agenda for Sus-tainable Development». Among domestic scientists, this topic is a relatively new, but relevant direction, which makes it necessary to study it. The analysis of existing publications shows that significant re-search experience has been accumulated in the de-velopment of a considered problem. In this regard, in this work, based on the historical-comparative approach and the method of qualitative analysis of scientific works devoted to the problem of social inequality in health, the main stages, approaches and directions of its study in the foreign research field are highlighted.

Educational Novations: Scaling Up and Institutional Practices

Th e educational novations that have already proven their eff ectiveness and relevance at the level of pilot projects, programs, practices, including in other countries, are considered as one of the ways to improve the quality of education in Ukraine. It demands using the applied potential of the concept of scaling up, which allows to justify the structure and algorithm of interrelated actions at diff erent institutional and managerial levels. Th e relevance of the article is determined by the fact that a scaling up in the fi eld of edu cation at international level is currently infl uenced by interdisciplinary intelligence and the rapid accumulation of empirical data in new areas of educational activities, including sus tainable development. However, among domestic scientists and experts, the topic of scal ing up still remains undervalued. Th is presupposes the expediency of generalizing the con ceptual framework and institutional scaling up practices for further conceptualization of the scaling up process. Th e purpose of this article is to formulate a multidimensional conceptualization of scal ing up of educational novations, which takes into account modern theoretical and empirical studies of scaling up in socially signifi cant areas, as well as the logic of consistency of key components, processes and results of scaling up. Th e novelty of this study is characterized by the following provisions. Th e multidimen sional conceptualization of scaling up of educational novations was further developed. It is suggested to consider novation as a scaling object, because this notion is broader than innova tion and covers a wider range of educational activities, including the implementation of sus tainable development principles. Th e necessity to introduce the English term “scaling site” into the domestic scientifi c circulation is grounded, which is important for understanding and interpretation of the scaling up conception. Among the results of the study it is worth noting the author’s proposed visualization of the scaling up model, which generates various interdisciplinary ideas and structures of the scaling up process from a systemic point of view and covers the key stages and cycles of scal ing up. Th e focus is also on elements and strategies of scaling up (subjects, contexts, dimen sions, resources and fi nancial models, approaches and drivers of scaling up), adaptation sce narios (sites, levels, sectors, cycles and duration of scaling up) and object transformation sce narios (including the monitoring and evaluation). Th e study allows concluding that it is appropriate to use the scaling up conception in areas of educational activities, for which the eff ectiveness and rates of implementation of relevant novations are critical.

Formation of the capital structure of metallurgical industry companies in conditions of sustainable industry development 4.0

The article deals with current issues of digital transformation of metallurgical companies in the conditions of sustainable development of industry 4.0. The authors systematize the tools of through digitalization of companies in the metallurgical industry, give their characteristics, as well as proposed a mechanism for the impact of digital tools on the capital structure and financial stability. At the same time the analysis of the capital of the leading metallurgical company of Russia and the world JSC “Uralelectromed” confirms the necessity to consider the formation of the capital structure by digital methods of management in the aspect of sus-tainable development.