Polskie i niemieckie doświadczenia w projektowaniu i wdrażaniu zrównoważonego rozwoju

The article presents issues connected with planning and initiating sustainable development in different sectors.  Polish and German experiences, despite the differences of datum-points, don’t really vary. The scientists from both countries point at the necessity of building up scientific background to the political acting through providing the politicians with necessary scientific information. They mention also that politics of sustainable development can’t be only implementation of scientific knowledge, but it also has to include interplays of science and politics in continuous cycles of learning and resonance. Science for sustainable development should have specified research fields, where the background are axiological components, empirical verifications, extrapolation using modeling and simulation, evaluation, results’ interpretation or verification of strategies and actions. In the further part the article we are moving to issues of sustainable industry, sustainable agriculture and education for sustainable development, where education becomes the main initiator for building sustainable development awareness and – in connection with that – the base for actions in other sectors. Artykuł porusza zagadnienia związane z projektowaniem i wdrażaniem zrównoważonego rozwoju w różnych sektorach działalności człowieka. Polskie i niemieckie doświadczenia, mimo różnic sytuacji wyjściowej, są podobne. Naukowcy obu krajów zwracają uwagę na konieczność naukowego podbudowania działań politycznych poprzez wyposażenie polityków w niezbędną informację naukową. Jednak wskazują także, że polityka zrównoważonego rozwoju nie może być jedynie implementacją wiedzy naukowej, ale musi uwzględniać wzajemne oddziaływania nauki i polityki w ciągłych cyklach uczenia się i rezonansu. Nauka dla zrównoważonego rozwoju powinna mieć określone zadania badawcze, w których podstawę stanowią komponenty aksjologiczne, empiryczna weryfikacja, ekstrapolacja wykorzystująca modelowanie i symulację, ewaluacja, interpretacja rezultatów oraz weryfikacja strategii i działań. W dalszej części artykuł porusza zagadnienia zrównoważonego przemysłu, zrównoważonego rolnictwa i edukacji dla zrównoważonego rozwoju, przy czym edukacja staje się głównym czynnikiem budowania świadomości zrównoważonego rozwoju i w związku z tym podstawą działań w pozostałych sektorach

Self-presentation of Polish football managers on Linkedin

Although LinkedIn is the world's largest professional networking site, the research concerning self-presentation on the platform is limited and fragmented. The main goal of the study was to explore the self-presentation of Polish football managers on LinkedIn in four dimensions: completeness and attractiveness of the profile, network-embeddedness, and activity. Using quantitative content analysis of managers' profiles (N=319), the research shows that the managers exploit the potential of LinkedIn to build their personal professional brand only in a very limited and mostly static way. In addition, the self-presentation in LinkedIn is the best among managers working in Polish Football Association, improves with the length of professional experience, and shows only slight differences between women and men

Odpowiedzialność człowieka za przyrodę w perspektywie kryzysu ekologicznego

The article takes up the issues connected to the ecological crisis, causes of which refer to uncontrolled scientifically-technical development, predatory administration of the natural sources of Earth and disrespect of the nature, following from the anthropocentric axiology, the analysis of the Stockholm’s Declaration, the Declaration from Rio and the declaration from Johannesburg, as documents forming the idea of the sustainable development, active that care and respect of nature and preventing degratation of natural environment make a basis of the agricultural and social development and the only rational way to get out of the ecological crisis without radical reduction the quality of human’s life. In discussed declarations they point out the individual, collective and institutional responsibility. It’s set up that the basis of the responsibility figured out like that - for the other human, for present and future generations, for the nature, for the global human’s society, for other communities of alive creatures, for the planet - should be ecophilosophy and systematic sozology. Basing on this two sciences we can make a socio-economical and ecological order indicated in the sustainable development conception

Człowiek jako racjonalny podmiot działań w świetle założeń koncepcji zrównoważonego rozwoju

The article is presenting issues connected with philosophical anthropology, relating to functioning of human beings in the technical civilization. Human being has been defined as a rational subject of actions. Also the ethical dimension of scientific and technological development was noticed, mostly referring to the individual responsibility category, institutional in many different aspects of human activity – agricultural, social and first of all ecological category. Responsibility, understood this way, is written into the principle of sustainable development, treated as the most important and the only one idea showing the right direction of human activities so far. There is a need for intensive educational activities, to introduce the sustainable development idea into the social awareness, and this was emphasized in the presented article.W artykule poruszone zostały zagadnienia z zakresu antropologii filozoficznej, dotyczące funkcjonowania człowieka w cywilizacji technicznej. Człowiek zdefiniowany został jako racjonalny podmiot działań. Zwrócono także uwagę na etyczny wymiar rozwoju naukowo-technicznego, uwzględniając w szczególności kategorię odpowiedzialności indywidualnej, instytucjonalnej w różnych aspektach ludzkiej działalności – gospodarczym, społecznym, a przede wszystkim ekologicznym. Tak rozumiana odpowiedzialność wpisuje się w koncepcję zrównoważonego rozwoju, która traktowana jest jako najważniejsza i jak na razie jedyna idea wskazująca właściwy kierunek działań ludzkich. Aby idea zrównoważonego rozwoju ugruntowała się w świadomości społecznej, potrzebne są wzmożone działania edukacyjne, co zostało podkreślone w zaprezentowanych rozważaniach

Countering Cybercrime Risks in Financial Institutions: Forecasting Information Trends

This article aims to forecast the information trends related to the most popular cyberattacks, seen as the cyber-crimes’ consequences reflecting on the Internet. The study database was formed based on online users’ search engine requests regarding the terms “Cyberattacks on the computer systems of a financial institution”, “Cyberattacks on the network infrastructure of a financial institution”, and “Cyberattacks on the cloud infra-structure of a financial institution”, obtained with Google Trends for the period from 16 April 2017 to 4 October 2022. The authors examined the data using the Z-score, the QS test, and the method of differences of average levels. The data were found to be non-stationary with outliers and a seasonal component, so exponential smoothing was applied to reduce fluctuations and clarify the trends. As a result, the authors built additive and multiplicative cyclical and trend-cyclical models with linear, exponential, and damped trends. According to the models’ quality evaluation, the best results were shown by the trend-cyclic additive models with an exponential trend for predicting cyberattacks on computer systems and the cloud infrastructure and a trend-cyclic additive model with a damped tendency for predicting cyberattacks on the network infrastructure. The obtained results indicate that the U.S. can expect cybercrimes in the country’s financial system in the short and medium term and develop appropriate countermeasures of a financial institution to reduce potential financial losses.This research was funded by the grant from the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine (No. s/r 0121U109559, No. s/r 0121U100467, No. s/r 0121U109553, No. s/r 0120U102001). The research received funding under the research subsidy of the Faculty of Organization and Management of the Silesian University of Technology for the year 2022 (13/990/BK_22/0170)

Changes in the system of country’s population health care depending on the level of providing affordable housing

This paper is devoted to providing affordable housing as a significant factor in public health management, inclusive growth, and SDG. The purpose is to empirically prove changes in the system of country's population health care depending on the level of providing affordable housing. The empirical base includes time series and panel data for 27 EU countries during 2011-2019. Due to correlation analysis (Shapiro-Wilk testing, Spearman or Pearson correlation, lags in time), regression analysis, and building a dynamic panel estimation model with Sargan testing in STATA, the study empirically confirmed and formalized the impact of affordable housing funding on changes in the system of country’s population health care. In particular, the study found the dependence between overcrowding level and the share of homeowners with mortgages (a decrease of overcrowding level by an average of 0.61% with a time lag of 2 years due to an increase by 1%); the share of tenants on concessional terms/free (0.41% with a time lag of 3 years); and the share of public spending on housing development (0.25% with a time lag of 3 years). The direct relationship between the overcrowding and mortality from dangerous diseases (tuberculosis, AIDS, viral hepatitis, mental and behavioral disorders, diabetes, pneumonia) was also revealed. Public spending on housing under social protection programs (subsidies, etc.) proved to be the least effective. Preference should be given to the development of affordable mortgage lending (faster and greater effect). Generally, it impacts public management decisions in the health care system, social, and housing spheres

Using Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence in Energy Management as a Tool to Achieve Energy Efficiency

Improving energy management has received a lot of attention due to environmental issues, energy crises, and growing energy prices in today’s world. Various digital technologies have been developed to enhance energy management to cover these challenges. This article investigates Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence, which have recently attracted increasing attention. The study applies the software of VOSviewer for providing bibliometric analysis. The data (pull of the scientific documents) was generated from the Scopus and Web of Science. There have been done a critical analysis of the literature for evaluating the research in the proposed area. This paper focuses on possible use cases of blockchain and artificial intelligence technologies and considers aspects of technology used to achieve energy efficiency. The findings showed that the technologies are widely applied in energy management. Besides, it is lack of documents that contain the terms ‘energy efficiency and ‘blockchain’. The results of analysis confirm that artificial intelligence has been rapidly integrating with energy management, helping to develop more efficient and secure energy generation techniques

Interaction between health insurance, household income, and public health financing in Ukraine

The most significant problems in financing the public health system in Ukraine are the permanent deficit of public spending on medicine and the shallow development of the voluntary health insurance market. The aim of study is the search of optimal interactions between stakeholders in the system of relations “state – insurance companies – households” in the context of voluntary health insurance. The study hypothesizes that households can become more active participants in health insurance only if their average monthly income reaches a certain threshold level. It is calculated based on the results of simulation games using the Brown-Robinson iterative method. According to the simulation results, this threshold level is only 7% higher than the actual value of the average monthly income of Ukrainian households during the analysis. At the same time, under this condition, the state in Ukraine will be able to transfer part of the financial burden of compensating healthcare costs to insurance companies. According to the calculations made with the help of the game theory toolkit, with the maximization of insurance payments to the population under health insurance contracts, the burden on public health financing in Ukraine could be reduced by 67.7%. The paper was conducted on the data of the ten most potent insurance companies of Ukraine as of 2021 (it is they who accumulate the lion’s share of household insurance premiums), that is, before the start of a full-scale war between the Russian Federation and Ukraine. The obtained results can be used both by insurance companies during the management of insurance premiums and payments and at the level of state management of costs in the field of public health. AcknowledgmentThis study was undertaken as a part of the research projects granted by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine: “Socio-economic recovery after COVID-19: modeling the implications for macroeconomic stability, national security and local community resilience” (registration number 0122U000778); “The impact of COVID-19 on the transformation of the system of medical and social security of population: economic, financial-budgetary, institutional-political determinants” (0122U000781)

STRUGGLE FOR. Italian-Polish-Spanish-Uzbek-Vietnamese Expert Forum Position Paper 2023 for better control of classical modifiable risk factors in clinical practice

The progress in pharmacotherapy that has been made in recent years, including the introduction of veryeffective and safe lipid-lowering and antihypertensive drugs, has not yet translated into the expecteduniversal control of blood pressure, lipid disorders and diabetes. In the STRUGGLE FOR Italian--Polish-Spanish-Uzbek-Vietnamese Expert Forum Position Paper 2023, experts from five countriesrecounted several points about the paradigms of cardiological and cardiometabolic care for better controlof classical modifiable risk factors in the year 2023. It is believed herein, that the need to intensify treatment,actively search for patients with cardiovascular risk factors, especially with arterial hypertension,hypercholesterolemia and diabetes, should go hand in hand with the implementation of the latest therapy,based on single pill combinations including proven, effective antihypertensive, lipid-lowering and antidiabeticmolecules, many of which are listed in the present document. There is a need to use both newtechnological concepts, completely new drugs, as well as novel treatment concepts such as metabolictreatment in coronary artery disease, try to intensify the fight against smoking in every way, includingthe available range of drugs and procedures reducing the harm. This approach will provide substantiallybetter control of the underlying cardiovascular risk factors in countries as varied as Italy, Poland, Spain,Uzbekistan and Vietnam

Assessment of National Innovation Ecosystems of the EU Countries and Ukraine in the Interests of Their Sustainable Development

The purpose of the study is to reveal specific features of modern EU innovation policy in the context of its focus on sustainable European development and to conduct an assessment of the parameters of national innovation ecosystems of the EU member states with different innovation potential and Ukraine from the standpoint of their influence on the innovative development of countries worldwide. With the use of the correlation-regression analysis, the hypothesis of changing the parameters of national innovation ecosystems that affect the innovation of the EU member states and Ukraine in the global context depending on the level of their productivity and innovation potential was reiterated. The factors that have the greatest impact on the ranking of the countries in the Global Innovation Index, depending on which group the countries under study belong to according to the classification of the European Innovation Scoreboard, were identified. It was revealed that the set of such factors in each group of countries varies and has a different degree of influence on the level of their innovation development. Based on the results of the assessment, taking into account the need for a speedy post-war reconstruction of Ukraine, policy recommendations were made for Ukraine. Their implementation will ensure the systemic influence of the state on the national innovation ecosystem of the country