Science, Research and Innovation in Educational Reforms

Modern states’ progress, as well as the EU member states, is based on the adequate provision of knowledge and skills to workforce and providing sufficient opportunities for younger generations to develop their talent in attractive employment. Therefore science, research and innovation centers in universities, as well as in numerous industrial and manufacturing sectors, are striving to create not only a strong background for new skills and re-skilling but also provide necessary facilities for employment careers in public and private organisations. For example, in the context of European integration, the triangle of science, research and innovation (SRI), has been already substituting a the previously used double connotation, i.e. research and development, R&D; the transformation is not just a “play of words”, it has an utmost importance in the present educational reforms, as the SRI-triangle has taken the leading positions in education policy’s fundamental transformations. Actually, without serious breakthrough in each triangle’s component the education revolution will hardly succeed. Thus, it is necessary to follow changes in fundamental and applied sciences, in natural, social sciences and humanities, etc. as certain “assisting means” in modern education and training’s transformations. Besides, the process of reforms also concentrates on science’s role in contemporary process of national recovery and resilience programs in the member states as reflected in the Union’s measures concerning education policy’s adaptation to global challenges.