The article reveals the problems of finding tools to eliminate the most unjust challenges to society and increase the effectiveness of management on a regional and national scale. With the use of analytical research methods, the reasons and motives for creating the prerequisites for distortions in the state administration system were revealed. The place and role of science, the public, politicians, state authorities and local self-government are defined in these processes. Separate differences in views on the political vectors of the state’s development are highlighted. The views on these problems of people who, expressed in the discussions, impartially assess the situation in Ukraine, politicians, scientists, public figures, and ordinary citizens of our country are highlighted. It is proposed to organize preventive measures in this area based on the integrated use of scientific, humanitarian and economic tools.

The scientific research aims to describe the content and features of the introduction of dual education in Ukraine, to investigate the prospects and advantages of the formation of practical oriented engineering education, to construct a circular model of dual professional competencies of engineering education and to establish the interconnection of structural and functional subsystems of this model. Using the methods of the systematic approach, comparative analysis, synthesis, and generalization, the authors concentrate on conceptualising and formalising the dual content of engineering education. The authors analysed the curricula of individual engineering majors, identified several discrepancies in the correlation of theoretical and practical courses, proved the need to change the curricula and bring them closer to dual education standards. To develop the dual content of specialists' professional training in the field of engineering, the authors suggest using the distinction the two subsystems – internal and external. The result of interaction between these two subsystems is the parallel acquisition of necessary applied engineering skills while studying at higher educational establishments, practical cooperation between higher educational institutions and leading enterprises of the region, rational alternation of theory and practice in the educational process. Our finding offers a significant contribution to further understanding the methodology involved in implementing the academic standards and highlighting discrepancies between traditional and dual education systems. Prospects for further research in this area may be studies on developing dual education in economic and humanities.

The article, based on the primary analysis, revealed high cost and low efficiency and contradictions in the functioning of the anti-aircraft, especially anti-missile defence of Ukraine during hostilities. It is suggested to clarify the terminological apparatus in this specific sphere of defence activity of society. The problem is considered both in the global and international, as well as regional, branch military conditions of the functioning of the voluntary association of territorial communities of Ukraine, territorial defence, etc. It is noted that air defence is carried out by air defence troops of land units and fighter aircraft in cooperation with air defence troops of the country, and in the case of hostilities in the area of the sea coast – with air defence units of the navy. It is established that most Western and European Commonwealth armed combine air defence exclusively with conventional forces (i.e., army, navy and air force), as a separate wing, or as part of the artillery. It is assumed that from a practical point of view, Ukraine may need ground air defence more than aviation. In the paper the interrelationships of the development of the air defence system within the framework of the development of the European Commonwealth in the interstate context are revealed. On this basis, the trends of this process are established and offered to use of modern economic European approaches to the organization of antimissile defence on the latest economic and environmental principles and the implementation of reforms in Ukraine in accordance with the modern requirements of European standards. The progressive experience of anti-aircraft protection of the population, the peculiarities of the operation of the “Iron Dome” and the issues of defence of the state maritime zone, for which the "M-dome" is used, are described. The economic characteristics of air defence with the use of anti-missile installations are given. It was emphasized that, like any other weapon, “Iron Dome” should not be considered as a separate unit, because all military equipment and weapons work in a single system.