Project management in the sustainable economic development of the region

The article is devoted to the problem of interaction between sustainable development and innovative project management in the system of interaction of economic entities and the educational environment of the region. The work was performed in the main specialty 08.00.05 - Economics and management of the national economy (by industry and fields of activity). We determined the role of project management in the Russian Federation in solving the problems of the coming decade, highlighted the special conditions of socio-economic development of the Arctic zone of the Russian Federation, components, methods and mechanisms of sustainable economic development of the region, the problems of the interaction of sustainability and innovation. In justified as the key approaches in the implementation of project management as applied to sustainable development of the economy and the educational environment of the region, with the presentation of the results of the project activities in the context of the reform of the educational environment in the Murmansk region in the period from 2013-2019. In General, the materials of research allow to allocate in the system of ecological and economic safety of the regional management of the key factors in the development of the educational environment of the Arctic region in terms of invariant combinations of sustainability and innovation.