The article is devoted to the analysis of the algorithm of formation of social and project competencies of ecologists as a basis for the development of appropriate training programs. For this purpose, the analysis of process of social and ecological designing in which value- willed, conceptual and normative-administrative stages are allocated is carried out. Accordingly, the content of social and project competencies of experts in ecology is determined, and the programming of the formation of social and project competence of experts in ecology is reoriented to the development of the ability of experts in ecology: 1) identify and articulate the deep integrated socio-ecological interests of a particular community; 2) to substantiate the social-project idea as an explanation of the laws of translational social transformations of the natural environment; 3) to overcome the dogmatism of outdated linguistic non-normative forms, and instead to be able to discover new social and project eco-meanings in them.