Formation of environmental research competencies of foreign pre-masters’ students for sustainable region development

Abstract

The article considers the development of pre-master’s programs for foreign citizens in Russian universities. The main content of the article concerns the formation of environmental consciousness of future research engineers. The article analyzes the content of university websites, as well as the publication activity of researchers in the field of training foreign pre-master’s students. The authors highlight universities in which the environmental component of modern engineering master’s programs for foreign citizens is the strongest aspect of the curriculum. The article shows that in these universities pre-master’s training aims primarily at developing environmental research competencies among engineering students. At the same time, the authors pay special attention to activities and tools that contribute to the formation of these competencies, focused on the sustainable development of the regions of Asia, Africa and Latin America. The authors demonstrate their own statistical data on the development of publications of participants in pre-master’s training at Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University.