The Human recourses in Baltic sea macroregion: facts, trends and potential risks to fulfilling the "strategy 2020" targets
ENThis research into the intense integration of the Baltic States, as a macro-region, into the European and global socio-economic and technological spaces makes use of a conceptual model that is based on the representation of the Baltic region as an environment in which open innovative systems direct their ‘knowledge triangle’ and socio-economic structures towards sustainable development. In view of the priorities of the strategic framework for European cooperation in education and training (Europe 2020), the trends and problems of human resources due to increased mobility, the emergence of new conditions of migration processes, and increasing the total requirements for competence, will be studied. Specifically, a comparative analysis of the transformation processes taking place in the educational structures of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia was carried out. It is shown that the traditional structure of higher education is effective in conditions of high mobility in a global society, but it does not correspond to the requirements laid down by the Europe 2020 strategy. One of these contradictions, which need to be resolved, is unevenness and continuity in the provision of educational services. For this purpose, the authors propose a new concept of the educational structure, based on the specification of abstractions of a concept “cloud”, to be applied to the structures of higher education.
