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The article is devoted to the coverage of the department of higher education institution work experience on forming innovative system for training of scientific personnel. Article aims to justify the theoretical and methodological foundations of innovative activity of the higher education institution department for training of scientists. For the implementation of the purposes of the article the following methods were used: analysis of scientific literature on research training, generalization of the features of the traditional system of researchers’ training and experience of the department of higher education institution, the method of cause-and-effect analysis to determine the factors of low efficiency of doctoral programmes and PhD programs in researchers’ training, simulation for justifying the theoretical and methodological foundations of the functioning of the innovative systems of the department of higher education institution for scientific training. The article highlights fourteen theoretical assumptions that were used as the basis for innovative training system: orientation of candidates selection to postgraduate studies to diagnostics of readiness of applicants for research work; outrunning way of organising of the applicants’ research work; connection of research work of graduate students and doctoral candidates with scientific problems that are relevant for department activity; orientation of department research supervisors for justification of methodological foundations of scientific research; an increase of amount of educational process in training of graduate students; moving focus while teaching graduate students from activity of supervisors to activity of applicants using interactive methods of organising the educational process, etc. The use of reasonable ideas will effectively implement the provision of the Law of Ukraine “On higher education” about the training of scientific personnel. Relevant problem for further development is a problem of building a system of department activities while having small number of graduate students, attracting graduate students and doctoral students to complex research topics.