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The analysis of the current state of the Ukrainian system of engineering education indicates the prevalence of traditional teaching-learning approaches in contrast to the modern needs of the labour market. Many universities across the world use the problem/project-based learning (PBL) which is an effective approach for the development of design and management skills of engineering students. The paper describes a detailed structure of a PBL course in project management and practical experience related to its implementation in an engineering degree programme at Bohdan Khmelnytsky National University of Cherkasy. Also, the results of surveys carried out in order to study the students' generic competences' development and perception of the PBL process are presented. The results show that students understand the diversity of PBL aspects and the influence of the PBL approach on their professional characteristics such as teamwork, ability of self-directed learning, communication and problem-solving skills.

The research confirmed that in order to carry out a comprehensive multi-level diagnosis of the well-being of the population, it is necessary to systematize the most important social, economic and other types of indicators. The authors developed a multilevel approach to implement the tools for diagnosing the population welfare: at the international, national, regional, territory and local levels. It is proved that socio-economic exclusion is the result of the law of the synergetic development of the system, that is, a law that expresses internally necessary, stable connections between elements of the system that determine the level of system synergy. The system of estimation indicators of population welfare is generalized taking into account its multilevel dimension. The complex of factors is determined, under the influence of which the level of population welfare changes. The authors develop methodological and applied aspects of the choice of a multilevel approach to estimate the population welfare through the neutralization of the negative effects of exclusion and the promotion of population improvement in different regions. The conducted studies allowed to confirm the results obtained regarding the choice of instruments to overcome existing problems and disproportions in society. The introduction of a multi-level approach to evaluate the population welfare could directly affect to the level of life quality of the population and progressive socio-economic development. Avoidance of regional disproportions in development and rejection processes taking place in the state is possible taking into account from the different point of views on the specificity of socio-economic development of each region. Monitoring of the coherence of the public communities actions and governmental organizations could ensure the achievement of a high quality living standard of the population, which enable each individual member of the community to implement their own rational-selfish development goals, which trigger the loop of feedback with a multiplicative positive effect. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]