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Nowadays, the greatest challenge that the educational system faces is the way we learn. This leads to the need for coming up with much better methods in order to develop and form and turn into habit key life skills, also known as ‘21st century skills’, (problem solving, creativity, teamwork, communication, initiative, leadership, adaptability, etc.). A successful way to accomplish this is project-based learning. The missions that are part of the ‘Design thinking’ method are an innovative way for its implementation. Therefore, this method is being used during the school year of 2020/2021 in Bacho Kiro High School, town of Pavlikeni, as part of a project under which turned the school into innovative. ‘Design thinking’ is a process which can be applied to everything that has to be produced, created or solved. This method helps younger pupils organize information and ideas in a better way, understand other people’s point of view and their problems more clearly, manage to lay down challenges accurately, think of more creative ideas and find quick ways to put them into practice. Every realized activity or ‘Design thinking’ project helps pupils understand that they can face unknown challenges as a team and find new solutions. There are seven missions for a single school year. There is one mission in a month, each in five consecutive days for 2 hours a day. Thanks to their creators from the Red Paper Plane, pupils became architects, space-men and discoverers. They await to become ecologists, travelers, meteorologists and automobile designers. All pupils, teachers and parents together have embarked on an incredible journey on the wings of the red paper plane so that the pupils from Bacho Kiro High School, town of Pavlikeni, are happy and successful in the 21st century.

This study finds a clear shift towards the importance of HRM strategy and the need for change towards service quality [Vachkova, E., Gaidarov, M. (2001). Management of Human Resources in the Global Society, Banki Investicii Pari, 1. Sofia, Bulgaria, pp. 29–35] in Bulgarian hotels 15 years into the post-socialist era. This is not matched by a significant change in improved employment flexibility, more effective career development, improved communications and management style and, most problematic of all, improved training and development. Although managerial statements about the importance of HRM may be rhetorical, the balance of evidence suggests that the legacy of cultural and institutional effects in Bulgaria remains strong and may have created a vacuum that prevents managers from developing the ability and know-how to initiate change, and by implication, improve firms’ performance.

Using empirical data from interviews among leading hotels in Slovakia, this paper sets out to explore recent developments in human resource management (HRM) policies and practices and labour relations in an emerging Central European economy. The main areas explored are the HRM function, employee resourcing, employee development, employee relations and emerging HRM issues. The paper establishes that there has been a move away from the traditional rigid socialist type of personnel management, but it has not been fully replaced by HRM practices. The emergent 'model' is a hybrid of the traditional Western personnel management and basic HRM activities, alongside which some legacies of the socialist personnel function still exist.

The application, or to be more precise, the misapplication of securitization in the mortgage market had fatal consequences for the financial sector worldwide. More over securitization techniques enabled single banks to reduce their individual risk while at the same time transferred greater risk to the financial system. Meanwhile a lot was written on the causes for the recent financial crisis. In most cases inadequate ratings provided by the credit rating agencies and different principal agency problems were addressed. I argue that international and national financial supervisors established an inadequate framework for financial regulation and supervision, and among other failures, even supported credit rating agencies to further establish their businesses. Further on, I argue that early warning indicators of systemic risk in the financial sector and signs of the coming turmoil were irresponsibly ignored at the time they were perceived. What turned obvious during and after the recent financial turmoil is that capital regulation failed to reach its main goal - ensuring stability of the financial system. In particular, securitization and related credit risk transfer products were adequately treated neither in Basel I nor in Basel II. With the development of both Basel Accords capital ratios became the center of banking regulation. However, capital ratios are obviously not sufficient as a measure for a systemic financial stability. It is time to ask if the developments in Basel II are the right way of banking regulation and supervision and in particular, if capital ratios can be the centre of banking regulation?

A reassessment of ground-based observations confirms to better than a 98% confidence level that the Galileo probe entered a 5-μm hot spot, a region of unusual clarity and dryness, some 900±300 km north of its southern boundary. Cloud conditions at that point were similar to those in the center of this region, some 600 km further north. At the time of the probe entry, the region was evolving to a slightly larger size and even thinner cloud conditions, as evidenced by its rapidly brightening appearance at 4.78 μm. The low reflectivity of the region in red light is highly anticorrelated with 4.78-μm thermal emission, but this correlation breaks down in the blue. In general, the reflectivity of most hot spots is remarkably uniform, although the 4.78-μm thermal emission is highly variable. A cloud structure most consistent with both the observed reflected sunlight and thermal emission properties consists of two layers: (1) a cloud layer above the 450-mbar level extending up to the 150-mbar level that probably consists of submicron sized particles and (2) a tropospheric cloud that is probably below the 1-bar level, possibly ammonia hydrosulfide, with low optical thickness in the infrared. A population of particles larger than ∼3 μm, clearly present at the NH3 ice cloud level outside hot spots, is absent inside them. The NH3 gas abundance near 300–400 mbar pressure does not appear to be unusually depleted in hot spots. Zonal structures in the tropospheric temperature field near the probe entry site were not correlated with the location of 5-μm hot spots but moved at speeds closer to the internal rotation rate of the planet. The properties of the tropospheric thermal waves at the probe entry latitude show little correlation to the properties of the 5-μm hot spot waves. Temperatures at the probe entry site derived from remote sensing are warmer than the Atmospheric Structure Instrument (ASI) experiment results near the tropopause, probably because the low-temperature ASI features are confined to regions smaller than the ∼6000-km resolution characteristic of the remote sensing.