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One of the most important component of innovative economy is forming of effectively functioning the work market. This is particularly true for countries with developing economy, that requires the formation of new pedagogical paradigms. The universities face a global challenge - to rebuild the educational process, taking into account the challenges and requirements of modern production. A successful preparing of future specialists, who are able to independent, creative, solving problems and strive toward their goals achieving is a practice-oriented project management education. It should consist in the work on educational project of different level of sophistication, using adapted educational attempts. Studying in this ideology, students acquire the experience of team work required in professional activity, such as team work, practice of presentation and defending of their ideas and responsibility of solutions adapted. Such an approach is actively applied in many leading universities in the world. The main task of the authors is to carry out a comparative analysis of educational design practices in different areas of training (engineering, management, public administration, organization of work with youth) in two leading universities in Poland and Russia -- Wroclaw University of Science and Technology and Ural Federal University. Used research methods are general and particular document's analysis, data integration, benchmarking, constructive congruency and case study. It is established that project competences are universals and recommended in national learning standards at all levels and streams of education. Regardless of corporative specificity, project management affects education matters, resources of educational process and pedagogical technologies. Project education of students has a systemic, infiltrating, successional and interdisciplinary character. Specificities of project learning, its social and corporative heterogeneity, are addicted many factors. Among them, the most important are project learning content, specificity of national project background, level of adaptivity in regional practices and different methodological approaches to project management--from the classical to agile one. [For "NORDSCI International Conference Proceedings: Education and Language Edition (Helsinki, Finland, July 17, 2018). Book 1. Volume 1," see ED603189.]

The 2008 Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, a joint conference with the Michigan World Language Association, focused on learning about the diverse backgrounds and needs of today's students and discovering new ways to help them succeed in reaching the goal of language proficiency. A wide variety of workshops and sessions offered practical advice on how to deal with reluctant learners on a variety of levels. Immersion-type workshops and sessions were offered to help participants brush up on their language skills, and participants were brought up-to-date on topics such as foreign language advocacy, advanced placement, technology, assessment, culture, brain-based learning, and much more. In addition to "Best of" presentations from 15 states, the program included several encore presentations from last year's "All-Star" presenters. This volume offers the reader a wealth of research based approaches and strategies to language teaching and learning designed to assist the language educator in creating a learning environment that will motivate and engage all students in the language classroom. These articles focus on best practices representing theory-based instruction designed to optimize language communication skills and cultural knowledge for all learners.