Entrepreneurial approach to social problems solving in Finland and Kazakhstan: experience of the Scandinavian institute for academic mobility

socio-political knowledge and social competencies, including in the field of social entrepreneurship, are becoming the most important indicator of the strategic professionalism of a civil servant. The article outlines the main ideas of the applied project for building an expert platform for the resource center for the development of social entrepreneurship in the Republic of Kazakhstan, jointly developed by Kazakh, Russian and Finnish analysts. One of the tasks of the project was the creation of a dialogue international platform on the basis of the Finnish Seinäjoki region with the aim of building a model of social entrepreneurship most effective in a specific country of application. The article shows that the phenomenon of social entrepreneurship has a resource of innovative significance in terms of increasing the efficiency of the new social policy in the countries of the post-Soviet space. In the situation of ambiguous theoretical interpretation of the phenomenon in question, the prevention of protest moods of the population is noted as an important task in selecting a national strategy for the development of social entrepreneurship. On the basis of the comparative analysis, the features of understanding and development of social entrepreneurship in Kazakhstan, Kirgizia of Russia, Finland are highlighted. The author underlines the need for a comprehensive assessment of the selected trajectory in building models of social entrepreneurship with national content and, accordingly, forms of professional training in the system of academic mobility. One such form is practice-oriented internships – «Immersions into the Scandinavian model of social well-being» implemented on the basis of the Scandinavian Institute for Academic Mobility. The article is of interest to specialists in the field of strategic design training of specialists in the field of social entrepreneurship.