In the context of digital technologies' development, digital competence is a necessary prerequisite for everyone to learn, work, and actively participate in social life. Higher education institutions are faced with the mission of selecting and developing appropriate teaching strategies and cultivating digital competencies of students and academics, as well as using appropriate tools to improve the quality of education. The article highlights the experience of forming digital competencies among students majoring in the 122 Computer Science specialization while writing their thesis. Students developed a university automated system for choosing disciplines from the variable part of the curriculum. The practical results obtained by students during the research in accordance with the thesis tasks are represented by the following: examples of UML and ER diagrams (design stages), graph images (implementation stage), sections of the program code and test results of the created automated system (implementation and configuration stages of the software product). The formation and development of digital competencies during such thesis research is analyzed. The European model of digital competencies ``The Digital Competence Framework for Citizens'' (DigComp 2.1) has been selected as a conceptual standard. Attention is focused on three areas of DigComp 2.1: information and data literacy; digital content creation; problems solving in the digital environment. The activities that contribute to the formation of these competencies are outlined. It is concluded that the described strategy promotes the formation and development of digital competence at the eighth (highest) professional level in accordance with the DigComp 2.1 model for higher education students majoring in the 122 Computer Science specialization.

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The article is devoted to the problems of content formation and software selection for the implementation of the course "Databases and Information Systems" as a necessary component of professional training of bachelors in the specialty 014 Secondary Education (Informatics). The current needs of the country in qualified IT specialists require the formation of computer science teachers' ability to work with popular programming environments and information and communication technologies. In particular, mastering the knowledge of such an important section of ICT as databases will allow pupils to implement the tasks of automating data processing and prepare them for future professional activities. Training of bachelors in the specialty 014 Secondary Education (Informatics) at the Volodymyr Vynnychenko Central Ukrainian State Pedagogical University is carried out on the basis of an educational and professional program, a mandatory component of which includes the discipline "Databases and Information Systems" as a necessary component of training in informatics. The discipline consists of the following thematic sections. Section 1. Basic concepts and architecture of databases and database management systems. Database design. Section 2. Creating and managing a relational database. Section 3. Use of CASE-tools and work in the database management systems terminal. Procedural SQL. Section 4. Database administration. Modern directions of database development. Theoretical and practical provisions of the course from sections 1 and 2, related to the issues of architecture, design and creation of databases, it is proposed to consider the example of Microsoft Office Access. Topics from sections 3 and 4 are offered to be considered on examples of "non-educational" database management systems. Thus, the study of system aspects of SQL, user security and authorization, data protection mechanisms, data backup and recovery, and database administration, it is proposed to carry out using the CASE-tool MySQL Workbench and the client terminal of the MySQL server This program was successfully tested in 2019-2020 academic year, when teaching 3rd year students majoring in 014 Secondary Education (Mathematics), educational program: Secondary Education (Mathematics, Informatics and Economics).