Abstract:

The dynamic changes in education in the last two decades have given rise to the need for a higher quality of training and have led to the necessity to raise the level of each person’s knowledge and skills. We have witnessed the change in university educational policies in accordance with the pace, with which the world is changing, and at the same time trying to provide a suitable environment for development and collaboration of traditions and innovations. A good example in this regard is the developed by the University of Library Studies and Information Technologies (ULSIT) research project entitled “Contemporary Approaches for Diffusion of Information, Knowledge and Hypotheses – an Innovative Model for Motivating Post-Doctoral Students, PhD Students, Young Scientists and University Students”, which enables university students, PhD students and young scientists, to enrich their knowledge and develop a professional opinion by trying out their skills, their talent and their creative potential in an objectively existing environment. The research team have studied territories in the region of Elhovo Municipality, situated geographically in Thrace, which is a border line to the South-eastern European Region, and the modern approaches to student motivation and PhD students include interdisciplinary scientific field research, due to which new knowledge and hypothesis are generated relating to the social processes, the historical destiny and cultural memory of the population in the vicinity of the South-eastern border. The basic tools used to achieve and carry out the activities of the project include various interdisciplinary methods and approaches. By revealing the strong relationship between scientific research work and the training in a university information environment, young people obtain equal opportunities for access to information and knowledge, which additionally stimulates their wish and motivation to search for and generate new knowledge. The results from the field scientific research study have confirmed the efficiency of the application and use of alternative educational models leading to the formation and validation of the new educational paradigm “From accredited qualification to certified skills” proving the raise in knowledge, qualities and skills of young people. The firm relationship between education and scientific research on the one hand induces induces the process of obtaining and sinking in of knowledge in different spheres of science, and on the other hand, the new approaches in scientific research activities are a contemporary way of teaching and motivating university students and PhD students.

Keywords:

Motivation, university information environment, scientific research, knowledge, diffusion.