Modern ecological crisis threatens the sustainability of human civilization. Awareness and education for probable disaster risk reduction give greater urgency to the issue of decreasing industrial failure rates associated with basic manufacturing activities and, consequently, improving the training in this area. The authors have highlighted the features of modern risk based approach in engineering training based on proximity of production entities to anthropogenic factors: allocation of risks and threats in professional and personal situations or tasks; critical analysis of any industrial process and considering its consequences; using professional and personal risk response strategies; risk-based thinking as the core professional activity. The paper considers the mechanism of risk-based thinking as a necessary part of engineering students training on the basis of diversionary analysis, and gives its algorithm adapted to their learning activities. A system of professional tasks and tools to be used in the students' future job has been developed to promote their readiness and willingness to work across trades within the sphere of their technical competency. The paper is intended for researchers, practitioners, managers of enterprises dealing with ecological and economic production activities, as well as for professional training of engineers.

In order to prevent and minimize the consequences of global environmental change caused by ecological, technological and economic problems, there need professionals with high-quality training in the field of health and safety. The article defines the special aspects of technical students' professional competences formation of in the field of health and safety in the modern world. The authors propose a set of integrative games boosting the learning process, creating simulated professional activities (situations), making it possible to develop skills and influence the relationships of participants and ensuring the formation of social and professional activities and readiness for work. This article is intended for teachers, psychologists, researchers, potential employers, specialists in the field of health and safety.

The educational system is sensitive to all changes in the world space. The transition to a digital society is determined by significant changes in the philosophical foundations of human activity and creating products, especially intellectual ones. The information and digital revolutions have significantly changed the spheres of cognition, perception and human activity, putting them on the rails of continuous education in an actively developing dynamic world. In order to evolve, it is necessary to transfer the existing system of knowledge and sciences to the new, digital generation of people, to form mechanisms of continuous learning, to generate innovations - the solution to this problem lies with the education system, referring to all its levels. The change in the education model is not only about the digitalization of educational processes. The “human-centered” approach is global. The authors consider the methodology for the development of educational ecosystems as a new norm of educational activity, revealing the concepts of educational ecology and analyzing the principles of implementing the ecosystem approach from the standpoint of achieving the quality of education.

The purpose of this article is aimed at studying the problem of increasing the formation of students' diagnostic skills in the course of training at a university. The presented article demonstrates a technique for diagnosing the level of professional and cultural competences formation on the basis of students' effectiveness in quasi professional environment. The basis of the presented work is formed by the ideas of the competence approach, their qualitative tools, expert assessment of the educational activities of university students. The article describes a method of assessing competences, criteriaё and levels of formation and methods of their estimation, allowing a diagnostics of educational activities. This article is intended for teachers, researchers, educational institutions heads who deal with the diagnostics of educational activities.