Professional Сulture of the Specialist of the Future : Proceedings of the 18th Professional Сulture of the Specialist of the Future (PCSF 2018). 28-30 November 2018, Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, Russia

The impartance of the conference was that constantly changing requirements for employees require new approaches to education. It is not enough for a specialist to have professional skills. Soft skills, language knowledge, IT, ethics, health knowledge and many others are needed. 279 full papers were subjected to a single-blind review process and 213 full papers were accepted for publication. The conference comprised keynote speeches and plenary sessions which covered Humanitarian educational paradigm of the future specialist; Innovative technologies in university disciplines; Actual problems of physical training, sports and health; Innovative approaches and modern technologies in the theory and practice of teaching; foreign languages; Sociocultural triggers and barriers to innovation; Influence of language, history, culture and traditions of the studied country region on the professional culture of specialists; Integration of fundamental science and the real sector of the economy and Communicator's professional culture: development drivers and creative technologies.