SOCIAL WELL-BEING, RESILIENCE AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN THE EU IN THE CONTEXT OF IMPLEMENTING THE CONCEPT OF "SCIENCE FOR POLICY"

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of the conceptual foundations of resilience as a key element of ensuring social
well-being and sustainable development in the European Union within the framework of the “science for policy”
approach. The relevance of the study is due to the increasing number and complexity of systemic shocks – economic
crises, political changes, migration challenges, security threats, as well as long-term structural shifts caused by
digitalization, demographic changes and climate transformations. The authors emphasize that in conditions when
avoiding crises becomes impossible, the ability of institutions, in particular at the supranational level, to form
policies aimed at preparing society for challenges with minimizing losses comes to the fore. The work systematizes
the evolution of the concept of resilience, which originates in psychology, ecology and engineering and acquires
interdisciplinary significance in the context of modern public policy. Particular attention is paid to the relationship
between sustainability and the category of sustainable development, where sustainability appears not as an end
in itself, but as a tool for preserving individual and collective well-being for present and future generations. An
important place in the study is occupied by the analysis of the EU legal mechanisms, which act as an institutional
form of implementing the concept of “science for policy”. The authors consider law not only as a set of regulatory
norms, but as a dynamic tool for implementing scientifically sound decisions, capable of ensuring the
formalization of sustainability indicators, consolidating a multi-level distribution of powers between public
administration entities and establishing legal guarantees for long-term investments in sustainable development.
The practical value of the study is the proposed system for monitoring sustainability through a number of
indicators, which makes it possible to identify critical points of intervention. It is summarized that the formation
of a sustainable society in the interpretation of the EU appears not only as a political goal, but as the result of the
systematic integration of scientific knowledge into management and legal mechanisms, which is implemented
within the “science for policy” paradigm.

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