12.12.2018 seminars were held on the following topics: "Educational activity of higher education institutions in EU and in Ukraine: trends of modernization"; "Research and Innovative Activity of HEIs in the World, EU and Ukraine: Trends in Development". At the Seminar, the essence of the new paradigm of higher education was discussed, which involves the use of competency, student-centered, technological and research-oriented approaches to the organization of the educational process in the modern high school of Ukraine, Europe and the world as a whole. Doctoral students described the educational innovations that are the subject of their dissertation research in the national, European and global contexts. The scientific and practical importance of postgraduate dissertation researches was also discussed.