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Guidance supporting Europe’s aspiring
entrepreneurs

Policy and practice to harness future potential TI-BC-11-006-EN-N

As globalisation continues to confront European societies with new
challenges, each citizen will need a wide range of skills and
competences to adapt flexibly to a rapidly changing, complex and
highly interconnected world. In this setting, entrepreneurship is often
seen as a positive force in supporting growth, recovery, and societal
progress by fuelling innovation, employment and social empowerment.
This Cedefop report reveals that, across Europe, education and
training programmes in entrepreneurship have a helpful impact on
developing individuals’ entrepreneurial qualities, raising awareness of
self-employment as a career option and creating a positive attitude
towards entrepreneurial activity. Entrepreneurship should not only be
considered as a means of setting up a new business, but as a general
mindset that can be easily put in practice by everyone in daily life and
in different working environments.
The report shows that the education and training provision in VET and
HE is increasingly strengthening such entrepreneurial attitudes in
young people. Current policies convey a strong message of support
for entrepreneurship and are setting the strategic framework in which
education and training providers can better implement related
programmes and activities.

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