Cedefop: Guidance supporting Europe’s aspiring entrepreneurs

This Cedefop study aims at better understanding how guidance supports entrepreneurship learning and contributes to the development of entrepreneurs’ career management skills. The aims of the study were threefold:

• to illustrate and assess the role of guidance in supporting entrepreneurship learning in initial vocational education and training (IVET) and higher education (HE);
• to examine the availability and role of enterprise start-up guidance and support for IVET and HE students;
• to analyse the availability of guidance and other support to develop career management skills of aspiring and novice entrepreneurs.

The study covered the European Union (EU) countries, plus Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway.