The Dual Model of Vocational Education as an Environment for the Formation of Entrepreneurial Competences: A Comparative Analysis of the Experience of Germany, Austria and Switzerland

the article considers the dual model of vocational education not as an organisational form of workforce training, but as a didactic environment possessing a specific potential for the formation of students' entrepreneurial competences. A comparative analysis of the vocational education systems of Germany, Austria and Switzerland is carried out; their common structural core and three different mechanisms of embedding the entrepreneurial component into dual training are identified. Criteria for adapting foreign experience to the conditions of the national system of vocational education are substantiated.