Integration Strategies of Academic Research and Environmental Education

Modern development trends of knowledge-intensive industries determine the necessary reduction of time of the market waiting for technological novelties, which is achievable due to promotion of knowledge and innovations in an educational environment of large centers of higher vocational education formed in a new way. An efficient mechanism of solution for this task must become innovation educational projects at universities integrated with academic research. The paper deals with the prospects of using GIS-technologies and remote sensing ones as the main directions of implementing the innovation project in the sphere of environmental education. The main directions of perfecting the system of environmental education are grounded. In order to ensure the development of innovative thinking in future professionals, it is suggested to implement an integrated system of teaching, knowledge generation, project and innovative work of bachelors and master's degree students, their participation at the market of knowledge-intensive enterprises. The innovative approach to management of scientific and academic activity of the university is considered based on cluster organization of its activity. The paper suggests new models and technologies in the system of teaching that rely on the obtained experience of implementation of environmental education tasks and integration of modern technologies into it.