STUDENTS’ ENTREPRENEURIAL COMPETENCE FORMATION: AMERICAN EXPERIENCE

Abstract

Highly skilled specialists from different sectors of the economy, initiative, purposeful, capable of navigating in a constantly changing world, able to solve various problems of the economic sphere of civil society’s life are needed for successful development of any state’s economy. It requires from the personality not only the readiness to keep to labor ethics in the adult professional life (labour culture, communicability, obligatoriness, personal responsibility), but also the necessary level of economic knowledge. It should be noted that students’ entrepreneurial competence development is also determined by American educators as the most important result of school activities nowadays, in addition, on December 18, 2006, in consequence of long time discussion among representatives of educational institutions of the European Union countries, an important document, i.e. Recommendations of the European Parliament and the Council of Europe ‘Key competencies for lifelong learning (European benchmarks)’ was approved. The European Parliament has identified eight key competencies, including entrepreneurial competence