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1. Acknowledgements

This section should list individuals, institutions, or services that contributed to the research but do not meet the criteria for co-authorship.

Acknowledgements. The authors express their sincere gratitude to Dr. Iryna Petrenko for consultations on research methodology, to the language editor for proofreading the manuscript, and to all respondents who participated in the survey.

2. Funding / Sources of financing

This section should indicate whether the research received financial support, who provided it, the grant or project number, and, if applicable, the role of the funding party.

Funding. This research was supported by the Project «Digital Transformation of Economic Education», grant No. DT-2026-04. The funder had no role in the study design, data collection, analysis, interpretation of data, writing of the manuscript, or the decision to submit the article for publication.

Funding. The study was conducted within the framework of the project "Digital Transformation of Economic Education", grant number DT-2026-04. The funding party was not involved in the development of the study design, data collection, analysis of results, preparation of the manuscript, and decision to submit the article for publication.

Example if there was no funding

Funding. The authors received no financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

Funding. The authors received no financial support for the conduct of the research, preparation of the manuscript, and/or publication of this article.

3. Conflict of Interest / Competing Interests / Conflict of Interest

In this section, authors should report the presence or absence of financial and non-financial circumstances that may affect the research results or their interpretation.

Competing Interests. The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

Competing Interests. The authors declare no conflict of interest.

Example if there is a conflict

Conflict of Interest. Author A has received consulting fees from Company X. Author B declares no competing interests. These relationships did not influence the design, analysis, or reporting of the study.

Conflict of interest. Author A received consulting fees from Company X. Author B declares that there is no conflict of interest. The stated circumstances did not influence the study design, data analysis, or presentation of results.

4. Author Contributions / CRediT / Author Contributions

This section should clearly show the contribution of each author to the preparation of the article.

Author Contributions. Olha V. – conceptualization, methodology, supervision, writing – original draft; Iryna K. – data collection, formal analysis, visualization; Mykola P. – writing – review and editing, literature review. All authors have read and approved the final manuscript.

Authors' contributions. Olga V. – conceptualization, methodology, scientific supervision, preparation of the initial version of the manuscript; Iryna K. – data collection, formal analysis, visualization; Mykola P. – manuscript editing, literature review. All authors reviewed and approved the final version of the manuscript.

5. Informed Consent / Consent to Participate / Informed consent to participate

For studies involving human subjects, it should be stated whether informed consent to participate was obtained and in what form this occurred.

Informed Consent. Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.

Informed consent to participate. Informed consent to participate in the study was obtained from all participants involved in the study.

Example for an anonymous survey

Consent to Participate. Participation in the anonymous online survey was voluntary. Before completing the questionnaire, all respondents were informed about the purpose of the study, the anonymous processing of responses, and their right to withdraw at any stage. Submission of the completed questionnaire was considered as informed consent to participate.

Consent to participate. Participation in the anonymous online survey was voluntary. Before completing the questionnaire, all respondents were informed about the purpose of the study, the anonymous nature of the processing of responses, and the right to refuse participation at any stage. Sending the completed questionnaire was considered as providing informed consent to participate in the study.

6. Consent for Publication / Consent for publication

This section is required when the article contains photos, videos, case studies, or other data that can identify a person. This is a separate item, not identical to consent to participation.

Consent for Publication. Written informed consent for publication of identifiable data was obtained from the participant.

Consent for publication. Written informed consent for the publication of personalized data was obtained from the study participant.

Example if the clause does not apply

Consent for Publication. Not applicable. The manuscript does not contain any individual person’s identifiable data, images, or case details.

Consent to publication. Not applicable. The manuscript does not contain any personally identifiable data, images, or case descriptions.

7. Accessible of Materials / Materials and Data / Accessibility of materials

This section should indicate whether questionnaires, instruments, protocols, additional files, research materials, or datasets are available, and where they can be obtained.

Availability of Materials and Data. The questionnaire, codebook, and aggregated dataset generated during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.

Availability of materials and data. The questionnaire, codebook, and aggregated dataset generated within the framework of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.

Example for open access

Materials Availability. The survey instrument and supplementary materials are available in the institutional repository at [repository name/DOI].

Availability of materials. The survey instrument and supplementary materials are available in the institutional repository: [repository name/DOI].

8. Declaration of AI / Generative AI Use / Declaration of AI Use

If generative AI tools were used in the writing or editing of the manuscript, this should be separately declared at the end of the manuscript. Elsevier explicitly requires such a statement in a separate section before the list of references.

Declaration of Generative AI and AI-assisted Technologies in the Writing Process. During the preparation of this work, the authors used ChatGPT to improve language clarity and structure of selected paragraphs. After using this tool, the authors carefully reviewed, edited, and take full responsibility for the final content of the manuscript.

Statement on the use of generative AI and AI-assisted technologies in the process of manuscript preparation. During the preparation of this work, the authors used ChatGPT to improve the linguistic clarity and structure of individual text fragments. After using this tool, the authors carefully checked and edited the text and bear full responsibility for the final content of the manuscript.

Example if AI was not used

Declaration of AI Use. No generative AI or AI-assisted technologies were used in the writing or preparation of this manuscript.

AI – use Statement. Generative AI tools or AI-assisted technologies were not used in the writing or preparation of this manuscript.