Associate professors of the department “Pedagogy and Psychology” of the Pedagogical Institute Natalya Shcherbakova and Olga Gruzdova, Head of the department Marina Lygina took part in the International Conference “Didactics: Past, Present and Future”, which took place on May 22-23, online.

The initiator of the conference was the "December 1, 1918." University of Alba Iulia (Romania). The problems of didactics were discussed in a remote format by specialists from Romania, Poland, Moldova, Lithuania, Slovakia and Russia.

The department presented approaches to substantiating the concept of the development of the pedagogical cluster, the main stages of its formation, the mechanisms of interaction between schools and universities.

It was presented that increasing schools and universities integration efficiency can be achieved by ensuring interactions that enhance the competitiveness of educational organizations within the cluster.