Development of interdisciplinary competencies of students in federal educational organizations of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia (based on the implementation of the project "Police Leaders")

The article presents the experience of implementing the educational project "Police Leaders," which has become an innovative format in the system of departmental education of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. The subject of the study is the pedagogical model for developing over-professional competencies of students in departmental educational organizations of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, implemented in the format of project and extracurricular activities (using the "Police Leaders" project as an example). The project aimed to enhance leadership potential, foster over-professional competencies, and strengthen patriotic, family, and spiritual-moral values among students. The structure of the project, the forms and methods of its implementation are presented, as well as the results of a comprehensive assessment of the effectiveness of the finalist participants. The data presented confirm the significance of the project approach and extracurricular activities as tools for developing "soft skills" among cadets in departmental educational organizations. Research methods included a complex of theoretical and empirical methods. The theoretical methods involved the analysis and synthesis of scientific sources on the issue of over-professional competencies, generalizing pedagogical experience in higher education, including departmental education, and systematizing modern approaches to project activities. The empirical part of the study is based on the method of pedagogical experimentation. The scientific novelty of the research lies in the justification and testing of a pedagogical model for developing over-professional competencies of students in departmental educational organizations of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, based on the integration of cognitive, activity-based, and value-normative components of the educational process. The practical significance of the work is determined by the possibility of using the obtained results in designing programs for the professional and personal development of cadets, creating centers for over-professional competencies, and scaling project-educational formats in the system of departmental education. The results obtained can be used in the development of similar programs for professional and personal development in the educational system of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. During the final stage, participants developed and presented five applied projects aimed at improving the educational process and enhancing extracurricular activities in the departmental educational organization.