Abstract: The study covers the problem of development of innovations in the sphere of arts and culture, the problem of education in the socio-cultural sphere, the consideration of specific features of socio-cultural technologies and their transfer. The leading role in this process is assigned to socio-cultural higher educational institutions to their opportunities and prospects of development within the global socio-cultural and educational space. A man is considered as a strategic element of innovation activity in the sphere of culture and arts. The problem of the necessity of strategic management, the most important element of which is innovation development strategy constructing, i.e., the formation of goals and methods of the organizational changes of the University, adequate to the world changes within a certain period of time is raised in the study. The implementation of innovative models of professional education in the field of arts and culture is shown on the example of state budgetary educational institution of higher education “Belgorod State University of Arts and Culture”.