Abstract:

Modern education is looking for new methods, solutions and concepts that will improve teaching as well respond to emerging challenges resulting from social, economic and environmental changes. Learners, and more broadly the entire society, expect education that will allow them to understand the world and its governing rules. Moreover, it is expected that the universities will help them to gain an appropriate social position and a job bringing adequate incomes for the family. Employers expect that the educational system will prepare well-qualified employees for them, which will later translate into higher labour efficiency and make it easier for enterprises to achieve satisfactory profits. All this is happening within a dynamic environment characterized by the digital revolution, globalization processes and attempts to take care of local development. There are visible and harmful consequences to the natural environmental because of the way economies are ran in addition to the period of global warming and strong climate changes in weather patterns, which supports the need for an action oriented towards higher education institutions and more specifically universities. This means that education at all levels, including higher education, should face with these changes, adapt to new challenges and conditions, and change its approach to teaching. The problem here, however, is both the general availability of education on a global scale (which applies especially to underdeveloped countries and war-torn areas), and separation of theoretical knowledge from practice experience. Moreover, a wide separation of fields of knowledge without indicating connections with other parts of knowledge and the emphasis on the transfer of knowledge itself, but without improving intra- and interpersonal skills, which in today's increasingly advanced economy are essential at work and are often a source of competitive advantage. This makes learning less effective, more difficult to absorb and less attractive for students. Therefore, it seems that it is worth considering moving education towards a model that will show the possibilities of greater practical use of various fields of knowledge as part of the implementation of specific projects. It is about a model that at the same time can help in building the so-called soft skills among learners, which will better prepare them to work with other people and to cope with problems resulting from social, economic and environmental changes and is in line with the principles of sustainable development.