Scientific and educational centers of the university as a pedagogical potential for modernizing the learning and teaching environment

the scientific and technological development of the country's economy can be ensured if the integration of science, education and production (business) is achieved with the transformation of higher engineering education in order to train innovative, highly qualified personnel in demand by science and business. Combining the efforts and resources of this triad will undoubtedly contribute to the formation and development of the professional competencies of future engineers. Integration is carried out in the form of scientific and educational clusters, complexes, associations, consortia, and centers. Scientific and educational centers have been created in many technical universities, including those specializing in construction. Their functioning, ensuring interaction and cooperation of students, teachers, representatives of science, production and business, activates the process of creating cognitively flexible and technologically rich spaces that have pedagogical potential for modernizing the learning and teaching environment. The purpose of the article is to reveal the structure, essence and capabilities of the pedagogical potential of scientific and educational centers in the training of engineering personnel using the example of an architecture and civil engineering university. The novelty of the work lies in the theoretical and applied substantiation of the effectiveness of scientific and educational centers of an architecture and construction university as a creative environment with the pedagogical potential of integrating science, education, and business in order to train highly professional personnel, revealing the structural and functional system of crea-tive spaces. The feasibility of researching scientific and educational centers and their pedagogical potential is in the strategy for the development of a system of professional and engineering training for specialists in the construction sector, which is determined by reflections on the creative space of the university as a cognitively integrated system, stimulating the activity of participation and responsibility of production and business in the development of the creative thinking function of students, connecting educational activities with a professional industry active environment, spaces that stimulate cognitive professional activities with an active environment.