This week ended with a lecture by Nataliia Letunovska, Ph.D., Associate Professor of the Department of Marketing, which is part of a comprehensive course within the framework of implementing the Jean Monet project "Healthy Regional Development: Best European Practices." The lecture dealt with issues of regional economic growth models with an emphasis on the features of the healthy smart-specialization model as an innovative type of regional development, which is gaining relevance in the conditions of the dominance of the paradigm of the need to ensure the uniformity of the dynamics of territorial development. Regional systems cause the most significant interest in this issue. The lecturer emphasized that in today's conditions, it is crucial not only to stabilize the pace of economic development and preserve the environment but also to ensure equal opportunities for the realization of human development in certain regions, which can be expressed, first of all, through equal opportunities to ensure health, personality development, culture. The lecture provoked a lively discussion. The students expressed their thoughts on ways to ensure the development of different territories of the country, both central and peripheral. Also, they gave their opinion on the problems of a social nature, in particular in health care.
