The long-term trends of world energy development envisage a radical increase in the energy efficiency, an increase in its quality indicators, and a transition from fossil fuels to the use of sustainable energy technologies. The article presents an algorithm developed by a team of authors for planning, implementing, and evaluating economic efficiency of benchmarking sustainable energy technologies in cross-border regions. Its use will allow optimizing the energy intensity of enterprises, ensuring energy security, economic efficiency and environmental stability of adjacent territories, preserving the mineral resource base, and improving the quality of life of the population.

The research objective was to determine the main vector of education development based on the analysis of Russian and foreign experience in using various methods of active learning. This vector is directed at a stable interaction between the real sector of the economy and the state in the educational process in order to improve the quality of education in general. The modern digital environment of higher education should create conditions for comprehensive development and new opportunities for students to receive high quality education based on modern practice-oriented technologies. Modern society needs education to preserve its fundamental nature. However, education reforms change its content, e.g. by reducing classroom hours, focusing on independent learning, etc. The article describes the main problems and prospects of personnel training in higher education and the necessary competences of all participants of educational process aimed at sustainable economic development of society in the context of global digitalization. The authors developed and described the mechanism of interaction between the participants of system science – business – production – state – society, integrated in the educational process. The mechanism uses practice-oriented technologies in order to increase the competitiveness of university graduates in the labor market and the quality of education in general. This mechanism will help to involve students in the educational process and face the modern realities of changing society, whose main priority is to adapt to rapidly changing working conditions.