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Nowadays, we are becoming more and more convinced that the educational sphere cannot be underestimated and we do not pay enough attention to its development. After all, it is responsible for the formation of a well-developed and indifferent personality both in social and environmental problems, as well as qualified workers in accordance with the modern requirements of the world. In this context, optimal government regulation of education will contribute not only to economic growth and the acquisition of intellectual capital of the country, which will ensure its competitiveness and innovations, but also to balanced sustainable development, which is important on a planetary scale. This article is devoted to the analysis of the interrelation between indicators of state regulation of the education sector and the achievement of sustainable development goals. For this purpose, the method of integral indicators with elements of the method of principal components (for each sustainable development goal) was used, as well as regression models with fixed effects (to determine the presence and nature of the link between state regulation of the education and the goals of sustainable development). The basis for the study was the official data of 14 countries of Central and Eastern Europe for 2006-2016 years, which is presented as panel data. The obtained results made it possible to confirm the existence of such interrelation, where the most effective state instrument proved to be the state financing of the education sector.

The paper is devoted to the investigation of environmental, energy and economic security by multivariate analysis methods. A set of indicators selected for research conducting includes 9 parameters for each security type. Study sample is formed by data for 6 Eastern European countries (Ukraine, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Hungary and Slovak Republic) for the period 2000–2019. Empirical study was conducted by factor analysis, which allowed identifying the main components of environmental, energy and economic security. Comparison of the results obtained for the studied countries showed differentiation of individual profiles of such types of security. Investigation of integral vectors of environmental, energy and economic security showed the highest level of interaction between energy and environmental security and the lowest one between energy and economic security.

This study presents the results of bibliometric analysis of publications that are thematically related to migration, environment, and safety. Vosviewer software helped to analyze the co-use of keywords in these publications, and the authors' affiliation to specific countries was performing. The works for the period 1965-2019, indexed by the scientometric database Scopus, were taken for analysis. With the help of Scopus analytical resources, and analysis of the dynamics of publication activity on the research issue was performing. The study found that scientists made the most significant number of publications related to migration, environment, and safety from the United States and the United Kingdom. The analysis by keywords showed that the concepts of migration, environment, and safety often intersect, which indicates the possibility and necessity of their joint research to identify key factors influencing these phenomena.

The article considers the impact of environmental changes on population migration and security of countries. Theoretical aspects of Environmental migration, in particular its essence and types, are studied. The main directions of scientific research in this field are considered. In particular, much attention is about finding ways to adapt to changes in the environment and minimize the negative consequences of these changes to achieve sustainable development in both regions and countries. The study found that internal population movements are mainly due to climatic factors such as storms and floods. It was determined that in 2019, about 52% of new mixing was caused by storms and 40% - by floods. Countries for which the phenomenon of ecological migration is most characteristic are India, the Philippines, the United States, China, and Indonesia. The main problems that arise in the study of Environmental mobility of the population are identifiedThey are mainly related to the lack of information and statistical base for conducting qualitative and diverse research.

The authors test the hypothesis that there is a link between the consumption of non-renewable resources of the leading economies in the European region in terms of value-added industry and health. They performed a ranking correlation analysis on key indicators of population health and volumes of consumption of renewable and non-renewable resources in individual countries. The researchers assumed a slight relationship between the rate of healthy years of life and the production of renewable energy resources, making a positive contribution to the country’s environmental situation. Among the compared countries, those characterized by high consumption of primary energy resources are proportionally more productive and renewable energy resources. The analysis shows that differences in the health indicators of the regions’ population cause other more important factors than the studied ones. Some dependencies can be seen in analyzing the causes of death among the population of countries, for example, by cardiovascular diseases. The risk factor for this illness is air pollution caused by excessive consumption of non-renewable energy resources. The authors recommend considering the indicator of ecological footprint in the ratings of life quality in the regions. Compared to countries with lower welfare rankings, this parameter is too high for leaders. Under investigation, the authors considered the x3 weight for the health indicator in the Legatum Prosperity Index.

This article generalizes arguments and counter-arguments within the scientific discussion regarding the determination of the optimal decentralization level, which will provide the country's innovative development, since the key task of decentralization has to be not only to expand the income and expenditure powers of the subnational formations but also to understand the final goal of this process-qualitative transformation of the country's economic system towards improving its innovativeness and competitiveness. Thus, the decentralization reform has to be the driver of the innovative economic development, which is the expected result of the managerial decision-making freedom increase at the local level, the subnational formations' financial self-sufficiency increase and more effective spending policy (expansion of the innovative projects financing amounts that will promote the sustainable economic growth). Systematization of the scientific works on the above problems proves that there is no one idea regarding the decentralization impact on the country's economic and innovative development among scientists. That is why it is urgent to continue the empirical searching in this area, that will enable to take into account the dual nature of consequences regarding the activation of the decentralization processes. The empirical study is carried out through using of the non-linear analysis form of dependence (GLM regression, which enables to identify the linear and nonlinear character of the relationship between variables) based on the panel data, formed for set of 23 states-OECD members

Digital technology permeates all aspects of life. During the pandemic, all countries in the world began to use distance learning methods through the use of digital platforms, classes, labs. Digitalization avoided the collapse of the educational system. The aim of the article is to analyze the processes of digitization of education in Eastern Europe. To achieve the goal of the article, the following tasks were set: to study the theoretical basis of the digitization of education, to analyze the trends in the digitization of education in Eastern Europe, to develop recommendations for improving the digitization of education. The article analyzed the ranks of the Network Readiness Index and the Global Digital Readiness Index in terms of the technological readiness of higher education institutions and students for distance education. The article offers a case study of the Ukrainian university for the implementation of an e-learning environment. The authors grouped countries from Eastern Europe according to their potential for digitizing education. For these groups of countries, the authors identified specific criteria. SWOT an analysis of the digitization of education was conducted for the countries of Eastern Europe.