ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the developments between the national and the European level, taking as examples two relatively similar education systems. It examines the impact of the growing European influence on the Austrian and German education systems. Within the European Union, Austria and Germany are best known for their extensive systems of vocational education and training and especially their long-term institutionalization of the dual training principle. It expresses that the key tools of educational Europeanization, that is, the introduction of bachelor's and master's degrees and the European Qualification Framework (EQF), fail to acknowledge the organizational specificities of hybrids. Hybrid organizational forms that combine institutional elements from vocational education and training (VET) and higher education (HE) have expanded rapidly. The Hybrid Higher Vocational Schools (BHS) systematically links curricular contents from vocational training and academic education, for example, in the training companies that are an integral learning site of the BHS institutions of business administration.
