Based on the results of the authors’ sociological research, the article analyzes the components that determine the professional development trajectories of young teachers in an innovative technical University. In the course of studying the respondents’ motivational preferences and working conditions there were revealed the peculiarities of young teachers’ adaptation in the educational process. The requirements imposed by the University in the process of its innovative development on young teachers and researchers are of key importance. An openness of the University to innovation involves the formation of a whole range of activities on quality management, measuring the activity of young teachers in research and educational work of structural units. The presented complex analysis of the developing practices allows to reveal the most “bottlenecks” in the work with young people and to offer a list of practical recommendations for the fuller use of their professional potential.
The link between media habits and the formation of an ideal view of sustainable development (SD) is poorly researched in scientific literature. Based on an empirical study among 229 Bulgarians, this report examines the role of different media channels in the formation of consumer expectations and assessments about the role of the four actors in achieving SD: the State, Business, Society, and the Individual. The results show that there exist relations between media habits and expectations' formation, whereas such links are not expressed in assessing achievements in terms of SD.
The purpose of this article is to present the process for developing individual indexes of sustainable household actions in several thematic areas of sustainable consumption. These areas are energy efficiency, electricity and water consumption, food consumption, transport use and product disposal. Based on these individual indexes, a proposal for the creation of an aggregated individual household index for sustainable consumption is discussed. Based on the developed indexes, a segmentation of households into three basic segments is proposed. The proposed indexes are designed based on the results of a survey conducted among 342 households from the city of Varna, Bulgaria in the months of January - April 2022. The proposed indexes, after adaptation, can be used as a tool for self-assessment of sustainable household consumption in different cities and countries. In this sense, as a result of their implementation, it is expected that the motivation of households towards inclusion in sustainable consumption will be increased.
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