The project supports the objectives of the Government Programme and OKM’s KESU to strengthen the working life links in education and entrepreneurship education. In addition, with the OPS 2016 reform work, the curriculum highlights the skills of broad-based competence. The modelling carried out in the project will provide a basis for the working life and entrepreneurship aspects of the curriculum in such a way that key competences for lifelong learning, entrepreneurial approach and working life contexts are strengthened. Entrepreneurship education is part of lifelong learning, in which, at different stages of the individual’s education and learning pathways, entrepreneurial competences develop and complement entrepreneurship. Through entrepreneurship education, the objectives and content of teaching, learning environments and operational culture, competence of teaching staff, and business networks supporting entrepreneurship are developed in order to strengthen the learner’s entrepreneurial skills, working life skills and life management. It is also about identifying the learner’s own strengths, taking responsibility, skills of interaction and self-management, as well as ability to innovate and face change. Entrepreneurship education also strengthens the capacity to work in the labour market of the future, either as an entrepreneur or in another’s service. In education, emphasis is placed on positive attitudes, basic knowledge and skills related to entrepreneurship and an entrepreneurial approach. Entrepreneurship education as a concept also covers entrepreneurship education. At the second level, skills will be deepened and entrepreneurial skills will be included. The aim of the project is to promote young people’s working life knowledge, working life skills and entrepreneurship by developing good practices in entrepreneurship education and by increasing the entrepreneurial education skills of teaching staff through collaboration in working life, training and peer learning. During the project, guidance and teaching methods, learning environments and tools will be developed to strengthen the integration of working life skills and entrepreneurship into the content and objectives of the subjects to be taught. With the project, the National YES Model for Entrepreneurship Education and the Young Entrepreneurship Programme will be provided to support general education in North Karelia. The primary target group is the tutors, teachers and principals of primary schools and upper secondary schools. From the elementary education side, the project also covers those primary schools in which the same teachers are the same as teachers in primary schools. The project’s measures will focus in particular on the following levels of education: high school and 9-graders in primary school. The measures will place particular emphasis on the importance of support for transitions in terms of training and career choices. Students are the indirect beneficiaries of the project through guidance and teaching experts who develop and implement the measures of the project. The project cooperates closely with the North Karelia Association of Education, utilising the experience of vocational education in the learning environments of entrepreneurship and applying them to target groups. Other partners include business associations, the Chamber of Commerce, the start-up centre, development companies and companies in cooperation with them to develop school-enterprise co-operation for new careers. National cooperation is carried out in various networks of entrepreneurship education.Concrete results:1) Best practice toolkit, Y-pakki, is available to integrate working life skills and entrepreneurship into learning (2) schools have responsible persons, Y-learns, who act as supporters in entrepreneurship education3) have developed an active development network around entrepreneurship education4) the increased knowledge of the working life of teachers and tutors and strengthened entrepreneurial education capacities support new types of learning5) The YES activities and the Youth Entrepreneurship programme will be activated in the region, instead of individual measures, in the culture of the schools involved in this project. The experience and results can be used in a regional, national and international school network. In the long term, the project measures can address the challenges arising from the restructuring of the region and the changing skills needs of working life, as well as prevent the marginalisation of young people.