Director of the Research Institute of Development Economics of the Ministry of Education and Science and the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (at SumDU), Doctor of Economics Leonid Melnyk, Professor of the Department of Economics, Entrepreneurship and Business Administration (EPBA) of SumDU took part in the World Science Forum, which was held on November 20-23 in Budapest.
The forum considered the current challenges of our time and the role of science in society’s response to them. It was shown how investments in science create ripple effects in society, economy, and management.
Among the key issues considered at the Forum, the following can be distinguished:
- problems of trust in science;
- dynamic monitoring of the status of achieving sustainable development goals;
- formation of a new paradigm of life in a changing world;
- sustainable alternative to GDP;
- problems of education for sustainable development;
- evolution of artificial life forms.
A number of speeches at the Forum expressed concern about armed conflicts in the world (primarily Russia’s armed aggression against Ukraine), which undermine the peaceful community of countries and humanity’s years to sustainable development.
The Forum ended with the adoption of a declaration, which placed special emphasis on the responsibility of science for the fate of civilization.
