Urgency of the research. The formation of mobility takes place within the framework of the corresponding stage of the civilizational development of society, which determines the conditions and factors that affect mobility, including technical and technological development, the moral and psychological readiness of a person to perceive new things that open up to him thanks to new digital, information - communication, communicative and cybernetic technologies. It should be taken into account that along with virtual mobility, physical mobility has also increased due to new opportunities that have become available to broad segments of the population. Target setting. Considering the growing level of academic mobility, it is necessary to consider the readiness for it on the part of teachers and methodologists to work in a multinational, multi-religious, and multicultural educational environment, where foreign citizens from all over the world are students of education. In turn, this also applies to the readiness of the student to study outside the place of residence (in another region - at the national level and in another country – at the international level). Actual scientific researches and issues analysis. The issues of modern mobility in general and mobility in the educational sphere as its element are paid attention to by both foreign and domestic scientists, and practicing teachers, among whom we can single out the following: I. Antonenko, G. Kilinicheva, D. Svyrydenko, M. Romanynets, S. Oksamytna, S. Bacci, V. Bertacini, M. Beine, R. Noel, L. Rago, P. Brown, J. Michael, S. E. Gilmer, etc. The research objective. The main tasks of the article are: outlining the role and influence of the modern stage of society's development on the issue of academic mobility; analysis of scientific and pedagogical literary sources regarding studies of academic mobility at the general level and individual factors affecting it; proposals for the integration of national institutions of higher education into the global educational space and provision of return and export mobility as part of academic mobility to improve the quality of domestic education. The statement of basic materials. Modern researchers considered various types of academic mobility, which includes a wide range of factors influencing its application (the influence of socio-economic factors; the satisfaction of the inner “ego” with the opportunity to study at a “fashionable” university; the choice “narrow” specialization, which is not available in every specialized institution of higher education, etc.). On the basis of the results of the analysis of the research conducted by modern scientists on the issue of academic mobility, to offer recommendations on ensuring the possibility of using academic mobility in modern realities. Today, academic mobility at the international level is largely shaped by the global labor market, which is shaped by the activities of transnational corporations and their implementation of international projects in all corners of the world. Also, academic mobility is developing between countries at the regional level, where a regional center of globalization is being formed. As an example – European countries and the European Union. As for academic mobility at the national level, the catalyst here is the uniformity of territorial development. In those countries where this development is uniform and high, the level of academic mobility is consistently low and vice versa. Conclusions. Summarizing the study of academic mobility in modern conditions, the following should be noted. First of all, it is necessary to take into account the moral and psychological readiness for academic mobility of both education seekers and teachers and methodologists. Secondly, the readiness of higher education institutions to integrate into the global educational space. Thirdly, a sufficient level of communicative and language competencies for further communications at the level of a multinational, multicultural, multireligious educational environment, where everything is based on the key positions of human dignity, equality, and tolerance. Thus, there is a need to form new competencies (mobility, communicativeness, foreign language, IT, cyber security, and cyber hygiene) among teachers and students for the possibility of forming both vertical and horizontal academic mobility, because wide cooperation with educational institutions of other countries will contribute to improving the quality provision of educational services at the level of domestic educational institutions, and this, in turn, will raise the general level of domestic education, teachers, pedagogical scientists and the national scientific school as a whole. Ultimately, this should create stable conditions for higher education institutions to increase the level of return and export mobility within the framework of academic mobility. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]