Educational hub as a space for the development of professional and practical competence of environmental safety specialists

The article contains the results of scientific research in the field of application of educational hubs in the process of training specialists in environmental safety. The analysis of the current Ukrainian regulatory documentation on the implementation of Sustainable Development Strategy dominants and provisions of the Law of Ukraine "On Environmental Protection" through environmental education of the society has been made. The problem of formation and development of professional and practical competence of environmental safety specialists in lifelong learning is updated in view of the constantly changing requirements for environmental safety at the enterprise and the territory of its influence. The analysis of professional and practical competence of environmental safety specialists by integral, general and special components has been made. The role of educational hubs for students through the provision of educational and scientific sessions of different duration and intensity using different learning styles (cooperative and competitive, cognitive and emotional, activity and observation, practical and theoretical) has been determined. A methodology of introducing an educational hub into the process of training specialists in environmental safety has been created. It has been established, that the process of the educational hub implementation has four stages: informational and organizational, evaluative and analytical, practical and technological, summarizing. The effectiveness of the implemented educational hub is proved by enabling the customers of educational services to create more complex educational and scientific and professional and practical products through exchange and cooperation, taking into account the collective integrated experience of professional activity. A model for assessing the formation of professional and practical competencies of environmental safety specialists according to indicators that include personal and professional qualities, practical and technological and organizational and managerial skills has been developed