Abstract: The problem of studying the psychological characteristics of the maturity of a volunteer's personality lies in the fact that there are contradictions between maturity as a value of global importance, focused on universal human views and determining the direction of human activity, and insufficient information about the social behavior of groups engaged in volunteer activities.
Subject of the study: psychological characteristics of the maturity of a volunteer's personality: social responsibility, self-actualization, altruism and empathy. Research hypotheses: 1) There are differences in the psychological characteristics of the maturity of the personality of volunteers and persons not involved in volunteer activities, which are expressed in higher values for volunteers:
- an indicator of social responsibility; - a general indicator of self-actualization, with a predominance of scales of orientation in time, value, the need for knowledge, the desire for creativity; - the level of altruism; - the total indicator of empathy, with a pronounced emotional channel of empathy. 2) The structure of interrelations of social responsibility, altruism, self-actualization and empathy differs between volunteers and people who are not involved in volunteer activities. The following methods were used in the study: the "Scale of social responsibility" by L. Berkowitz and K. Lutterman (according to K. Muzdybaev). Diagnosis of self-actualization of personality A.V. Lazukin's method in adaptation by N.F. Kalin. Diagnosis of the "altruism-egoism" personality attitude Fetikina N.P., Kozlova V.V. and Manuylova G.M.
Methodology for diagnosing the level of empathic abilities of V. V. Boyko. The article provides a comparative analysis of the psychological characteristics of the maturity of the personality of volunteers and persons not involved in volunteer activities. Among the psychological characteristics are highlighted: social responsibility, self-actualization, altruism and empathy.
As a result of the conducted research, it was revealed that participants in volunteer activities show a high level of altruism and self-actualization compared to people who do not volunteer. There were also differences in the structure of the relationships between these indicators. According to the results of the study, it was concluded that participation in volunteer activities contributes to the development of altruism and self-actualization, and conclusions were drawn about the level of maturity of the volunteers' personality. It can also be concluded that one of the conditions for the psychological development of maturity as a value is the organization of volunteer practices in the educational process.

Abstract: The need to isolate people during the pandemic has put the education system in a situation of transformation of ways of carrying out educational and cognitive activities in conditions of indirect interaction. The transfer of the educational process from the real to the digital environment, including online, without taking into account the specifics of educational and cognitive activity in it, has shown its low effectiveness. Today, digitalization is a priority in the development of education. Ensuring the quality of education in the digital environment requires a fundamentally new approach to the content, motivation, and teaching methods based on scientifically based data on the specifics of the pedagogical process in the digital educational environment. This article presents the results of diagnostics of motivation of educational and cognitive activity of students of various age groups in the digital educational environment according to programs of higher and additional professional education.  Within the framework of the study, various methods of motivation diagnostics were used: N.V. Elfimova's methodology for diagnosing educational motivation (adapted in accordance with the age groups of students and the type of training), T.O. Gordeeva's methodology for diagnosing internal and external educational motivation, A.A. Rean's methodology for diagnosing motivation for achieving success and avoiding failures. As a result of the study of the motivation of educational and cognitive activity of students in the digital educational environment according to the programs of higher and additional professional education, the concept of the digital educational environment is clarified, its main characteristics (cross-border, hypertext, individualization, multi-instrumentality, mediated interaction) are highlighted, the concept of motivation of educational activity is clarified, a number of approaches and constructs of educational motivation are analyzed and generalized, presented the results of the diagnosis of the motivation of educational activities of students of various age groups, the experience of implementing the educational process in the digital environment according to programs of higher and additional professional education is summarized. The results obtained in the course of the study made it possible to determine the directions for improving the pedagogical process in the digital educational environment for the vocational education system, taking into account the identified specifics of motivation of educational and cognitive activity of students of various age groups.

Abstract: The topic of the study is dictated by the issues of ensuring the quality of advanced training of thinking, competent, capable of self-development specialists. One of the areas of solving these problems is the introduction of project activities into the educational process. In order to develop and implement the project activities of students within the framework of non-audit independent work, a comprehensive study was carried out, based on systemic, complex, activity, personality-oriented approaches, using methods of analysis, synthesis, generalization, design, experiment, observation, expert assessments.
The object of the study is the process of vocational training of students of educational organizations of higher education.
The subject of the study is: project activities as the basis for organizing non-audit independent work of students of higher education organizations.
As a result of the study, the author from a methodological point of view describes the project activities of students as a holistic sequential process consisting of a number of stages (pre-project, stage of formulation of the project concept, planning, project implementation, project evaluation, project improvement, project implementation) aimed at solving a specific practically significant problem. The author disclosed the goals, content, means, results of each stage of project activity.
The novelty and author's contribution lies in the modification and application of strategic management tools in organizing the project activities of students of higher education organizations.
The effectiveness of the solutions presented in the article has been proven experimentally.

Abstract: The rationale  of the research is caused by the importance of educational work with the internal affairs personnel, poor development of assessing criteria of would-be army officers being ready for educational work with the personnel, and the need in continuous improvement of the quality of professional training within the system of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation. The subject of the research is the quality of professional training of police officers. The object of the research is the readiness of military students for educational work with the internal affairs personnel. In their research the authors applied the systems and interdisciplinary approaches, methods of analysis, synthesis, generalisation, classification, specification, and modelling which allowed to obtain valid and scientifically grounded results. As a result of their research, the authors offer their definition and describe the structure of readiness for educational work with the internal affairs personnel. Based on the analysis of the structure of educational work, the authors offer their own integrated method of assessment of readiness for educational work withhin the internal affairs system. They also describe principles, functions, criteria, indicators and assessment techniques of their method.