OPEN SCIENTIFIC AND ARTISTIC PARTNERSHIP AND LIFELONG LEARNING CONTRIBUTING TO THE SUSTAINED QUALITY DEVELOPMENT OF A SMART SOCIETY

Аннотация

The rapid emergence of versatile new technologies strongly influences the big changes in contemporary society. In this context, people have an important position and role to play as individuals and members of various organizations. This development provides opportunities for well-being but also means big challenges to the existing occupations and working conditions and involves risks to information security and people’s privacy. Also in the same time, human-machine relations have become an interesting topic of discussion. This article also discusses, as an example, the East-West Quality Society Initiative (EWQSI), a cross-border collaboration founded and started between Finland and Russia, which consists of the intercultural scientific and artistic entities and lifelong learning to stimulate to the sustained societal quality in the conditions of the 4th industrial revolution and smart society. This initiative provides opportunities of open cross-border partnering and takes into account the multidisciplinary interests of practitioners and experts to advance the open science and arts and impact on society.