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The Russian aggresion against Ukraine became a new reality in the XXI century and definitely shook the whole World. New realities are forcing all spheres of science and practice to work harder and develop, that is why philosophers of law are tended to call war “the driving force of progress”. Our modern life in the condition of war proves, that the technical and scientific progress as it is, is created and developed on thousands and millions of destroyed human lives. But, in order to make a warring society to move successfully forward, save as many innocent lives as possible and meet basic needs of a particularly vulnerable polutation, it is not only army, which is supposed to work for 100%, but also “home front workers” has to try harder. The current war has dimished an understanding of difference between quintiles of population, especially, if we are taking into account differences between beneficiaries of the Affordable Medicines Program (AM). At the beginning of the War, all beneficiaries of the AM, despite of level of their well-being had to suffer equally because of the short-term period of medicines’ shortage due to destroyed infrastructure of cities and regions. They were afraid that those highly necessary medicines would not return to the pharmacies neither in the sphere of the AM, nor even for normal sale. Because of the aforementioned force-majeure, most of people were not even assured that their basic needs will be met, especially were worried those ones, who have been active users of the AM for a long period of time. However, despite of the aforementioned destruction of the insfrastrucutre, the commons fears and dangers of war, the AM has not stopped working. On the contrary, it has become even more successful and progressive. The need to react quickly to the circumstances that took place, forced to achieve long-term plans of the AM creators in a very short time. Thus, the pilot program has finally fit into the general outline of the life support and health care system of Ukraine and became perhaps the most progressive in the whole Europe. But, nevertheless, the progress is definitely not standing still, the situation remains critical, the humanitarian catastrophe is becoming more and more real today, and, thus, the AM opens new promising ways of development for the coming month and years. In fact, our study was devoted to the analysis of the changes that took place since February 24, 2022, as well as promising directions for the development of AM, which are mostly dictated by the newly created humaniatrian crises in the current article.

Higher education institutions are increasingly being transformed from establishments with traditional teaching and research functions to those playing a social role in ensuring sustainable regional development. The aim of the article is to substantiate the possibility of ensuring sustainable regional development based on socialization of higher education institutions. The study is aimed at expanding the understanding of traditional ways of ensuring sustainable regional development, taking into account the ability of higher education institutions to promote the dissemination of knowledge about sustainable development, maintain sustainable entrepreneurial ecosystems and generate management decisions that affect the achievement of sustainable regional development. The carried out assessment of the state of incorporation of the Sustainable Development Goals into strategic planning documents in Ukraine made it possible to justify five reasons for the need to reflect the Sustainable Development Goals in regional strategies. A conceptual scheme of the influence of higher education institutions on the subsystems of achieving sustainable regional development is proposed, changes in the indicators of sustainable development associated with universities are analyzed. The breaking down of the higher education institutions by region by indicators of the U-Multirank 2020 ranking in the dimension of regional engagement (bachelor graduates working in the region; master graduates working in the region; student internships in the region; regional joint publications; income from regional sources; regional publications with industrial partners). It is proved that the key to sustainable regional development and harmonization of the relationship “economy-society-nature” are specialists able to take into account all aspects of the economic, social and environmental development of the region. This made it possible to highlight the priorities for the further development of the social mission of higher educational institutions.

The aim of this paper is to analyze the current situation of social entrepreneurship in Ukraine and to define challenges and obstacles it faces during development. A multidimensional study of the phenomenon, the relevance of which is due to a change in the whole paradigm thinking about what business is, what responsibility they bear to society, and what impact they can have on the society around them. This article contributes to the literature on combining qualitative and quantitative methods of research on social business in Ukraine. The empirical part of the study was conducted through document analysis (a catalog of social enterprises), semi-structured interviews, and a quantitative survey. The perception and understanding of phenomena by social entrepreneurs were clarified. The barriers to social business development were identified and typified by resource, financial, communicational, system, and the quarantine as specific challenges during COVID-19 time. There is no universal definition of "social enterprise", even among those involved in social business. However, there is a common idea of the image of a social entrepreneur, the emphasis being mainly on intrinsic motivation and outstanding personal characteristics. Resource barriers include rooms/building, land, and materials. Financial barriers are the startup capital, chances to get loans, taxes, and rent. Communication barriers are in interaction with government agencies, investors, and employees search and selection. System barriers are connected to lack of a specific status in legislation and the registration form for social business, also rejection and misunderstanding of the phenomenon by society. Quarantine was named as a specific challenge, because it threatened both social and traditional business during a coronavirus pandemic. The development of social business creates the demand for training programs and for the events where experiences and ideas can be shared. Considering the differences between social and traditional business models, there is a need to develop an appropriate system for monitoring and performance evaluation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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