Cross-Cutting Practical Trainings for Students in the Field of Ecology and Environmental Sciences

Abstract

The paper addresses the key structural elements of the cross-cutting practical training (or program), namely: methodological (e.g. methods, techniques), regulatory (e.g. laws, decrees, regulations of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine), technical (e.g. standardization system), human resource and financial support of practical training; structural-and-logical profiles of practical trainings for students in the field of ecology and environmental protection in order to meet the needs of the labour market; working practice programs. There are defined the professionally important qualities and skills that are acquired in the course of practical trainings, including academic, intellectual, communicative, moral, practical, self-reliance, initiative, commitment, predictability, decisiveness, which in turn encourage the specialists to carry out professional research, develop designs, conduct expert control, perform tasks such as legal and regulatory, environmental, educational, administrative that are related to sustainable use of natural resource, modelling and predicting the state of the environment etc.