During years of full-scale aggression, the education sector has faced enormous threats on a daily basis, such as the complete or partial destruction of institutions, constant danger to the lives and health of those involved in the educational process, disruption of stable learning activities, and the search for sources of funding. All these problems underscore the need to rethink the key priorities for the development of education in the context of martial law and the post-war recovery of the country. These issues need to be addressed on the basis of technological development, in particular the introduction and use of the latest educational technologies (Edtech, short for education technology), which also applies to the regional context in connection with the continued implementation of decentralization reform, taking into account the latest challenges and threats. Information on the ratings of Ukrainian universities compiled by various expert organizations based on relevant education assessment criteria, which fairly broadly represent the regional profile, has been summarized and analyzed, and it has been found that the degree of implementation of the latest educational technologies is a significant factor in the quality of education. Based on an analysis of trends in education, it has been established that in 2025, education will continue to undergo transformations under the influence of technologies that are changing its configuration, primarily artificial intelligence (AI), and therefore the traditional model of frontal teaching is not sufficiently suitable for a society undergoing rapid processes, and therefore skills such as emotional intelligence and communication are becoming increasingly important as machines take over many routine technical tasks. Trends in education development and their interconnection with educational technologies have been analyzed. It has been established that when forming an ecosystem of the latest educational technologies at the level of individual territories and communities, problematic issues arise, which are primarily due to the lack of safe conditions for activities caused by the state of war and compliance with the norms of psychological, physical, informational, and social security of each student. It is argued that a strategic plan for the development of education in each community with a corresponding component of technological support should be mandatory, which will help coordinate budget planning in terms of the targeted and effective use of resources, and community members will better understand the common goal and offer their own skills and abilities to achieve it. The features and prerequisites for the impact of modern educational technologies on the educational process in conditions of increasing uncertainty and crisis situations have been identified. The state of development of educational technologies has been characterized and the factors influencing this process have been identified. Problems in the formation of an ecosystem of educational technologies in Ukraine at the regional level have been identified and proposals for their solution have been developed. 

education, educational technologies (EdTech), regional educational systems, capital investments, digitalization 

Today, the issues of the special role of the innovative potential of the economy and society are not only relevant, but also require a systematic rethinking, due to the strategic tasks of choosing effective means of Ukraine’s victory in the war against the Russian aggressor and post-war reconstruction of the country. In the innovative development of society in terms of the formation, realization and reproduction of its innovative potential, everything begins with education. In the conditions of war, systemic issues related to the study of the impact of socio-economic and technological problems of different levels on the development of the State’s education sector in the direction of forming its innovative orientation and the basis of the latest knowledge remain poorly researched. The purpose of the article is to actualize the role of education in socio-economic processes and to identify and substantiate the trends and possible directions for improving the efficiency of its development as a component of the innovative potential of Ukrainian society. The author proves that building an independent and self-sufficient state and defending its national interests involves, first of all, recognizing the priority of education. Its development is based on the principles of democracy and humanistic values and requires the use of advanced teaching and management technologies to ensure, first of all, self-development of the individual and the formation of an innovative culture. Based on a comparative analysis of international indices, the article identifies general trends in the development of education and training in Ukraine, which demonstrate a number of positive results in certain areas that shape its innovative potential. In particular, Ukraine belongs to the category of countries where the development of the country’s innovations is faster than its economy, ranks third in the world in terms of the ratio of the number of teachers to the number of students, and has a high impact of talents on economic development. 

education, trends, innovation potential, innovativeness, post-war reconstruction 

The results of science are directly related to the development of technologies, the level of which depends on the timeliness, scope, and quality of research, the effectiveness of R&D, and its transfer to production. The effectiveness of such processes directly depends on an efficient state science and technology policy. Years of postponed systemic reforms of the organization of scientific activity in Ukraine and gradual reduction of funding for science to a critical level only increase the scale of problems and deepen the loss of the country’s innovation capacity. New shocking challenges have been added to the problems of science’s survival in the last pre-war years due to the consequences of the full-scale war unleashed by russia against Ukraine. The article analyzes the role of science as a way of forming and increasing the innovative capacity of economic and social development. The authors identify and characterize the state and peculiarities of the functioning of the scientific sphere in Ukraine in the context of the russian-Ukrainian war. The article summarizes the peculiarities of approaches to the prospects for the development of science as an effective component of the national innovation system and the directions of its contribution to the post-war reconstruction of the country. The article aims to summarize the peculiarities and analyze the general state of functioning of the scientific sphere of Ukraine during the war, to identify its systemic problems, and to set the tasks of development in the post-war period in terms of forming the innovative capacity for the restoration and modernization of the national economy. Systematic analysis of the proposals initiated by scientists, experts, and public authorities in the field of education and science has shown that the state will try to focus funding on research in the field of defense complex and several other applied fields. This requires the actualization of direct dialogue between enterprises and scientists with some support from the state. There is a need for another significant transformation of the science governance system and the creation of an effective state body capable of efficiently planning activities and allocating and controlling research expenditures. 

science, scientific sphere, problems, innovation capacity, prospects, post-war recovery 

The paper evaluates the capacity and defines the development directions for Lvivska oblast as an educational center. The place of education in the GRP of Lvivska oblast and dynamics of employed in science in the region in 2012-2018 are analyzed. The reasons for professional and qualification misbalance at the labor market of Lvivska oblast are examined. The trends that characterize the demographic situation in Lvivska oblast and their socio-demographic consequences for the nearest future are determined. The falling birth rate causes the reduced need for places in pre-school establishments and the annual decline in the number of first-grade pupils, thus leading to the falling number of the working-age population and workforce deficit as well as growing demographic load on the working population. Structural changes in the population distribution by the type of settlement testify to the activation of urbanization processes. The ongoing spatial redistribution of children within the region will lead to misbalances in the load on the educational infrastructure. The gradual decline in the number of persons studying in the general secondary education and vocational establishments and growing number of students in higher education establishments are emphasized. The dynamics of the number of educational facilities and consumers of educational services in the region is analyzed, and the falling number of educational facilities of all levels (excluding the pre-school one) in 2012-2019 is emphasized. The results of the external independent evaluation on Ukrainian language and literature of the 2019 graduates in Lvivska oblast by the types of educational establishments. Transformation processes in higher education are examined, including the optimization of the number of educational establishments, quick development of large universities, losing the positions by small establishments with lower quality of services, and growing education level. A hub is suggested to be used as an organizational ground for the development of an educational domain in the region. 

demographic situation, education infrastructure, consumers of educational services, regional policy in education