Аннотация
The article deals with the actual problems of contradictions in the professional orientation of schoolchildren associated with changes in higher education and changes in the labor market. Both schools and higher education institutions interested in mobilizing a contingent of applicants take an active part in the professional orientation of schoolchildren. At the same time, professional orientation should be understood from the point of view of socialization of the individual and only then from the point of view of ensuring the admission of applicants.Early education at a Children’s University has a great responsibility for the development of children. The introduction of children to reading and writing culture is a necessary condition for the formation of a new generation of citizens who have to meet the challenges of modernity at a high intellectual level, to ensure the sustainable development of the country in the conditions of increasing global competition in the economy, politics, education, science, art, and other spheresIn Kazakhstan, Children’s universities are organized and implemented at Taraz University, Sh. Ualikhanov Kokshetau University, Caspian University. Each of the Children’s Universities discussed above works alone with a strong regional orientation and is unique in its local context. Together with partner enterprises, the topics of the educational program modules of the children’s university, including project cases, have been developed. A project of a digital platform for networking in the KAZCUNET (IRN AR09258554) ecosystem has been created.The KAZCUNET (IRN AR09258554) digital platform will allow the implementation of innovative mechanisms of network interaction of ecosystem participants in the implementation of educational programs, projects, and scientific events in order to form the scientific capital of children