According to a Commission's report, half of European countries are engaged in a process of educational reforms which include the strengthening of entrepreneurship education. The report also highlights that entrepreneurship education is being increasingly promoted in most European countries.

The European Commission published the report entitled “Entrepreneurship Education at School in Europe”, which shows that eight countries (Denmark, Estonia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Wales and the Flemish part of Belgium) have launched specific strategies to promote entrepreneurship education, while 13 others (Austria, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain and Turkey) include it as part of their national lifelong learning, youth or growth strategies.

Entrepreneurship is promoted by the European Union as a key factor for competitiveness. In 2009, the Commission launched a new call for proposals aiming to promote entrepreneurship among young people. The EU highlights the importance of advancing a European entrepreneurial culture by fostering the right mind-set and entrepreneurship-related skills. The report published by the Commission shows that entrepreneurship education is explicitly recognised in the primary education curricula of two-thirds of the countries surveyed. A total of 31 European countries and 5 regions were surveyed for the report.

However, the report also shows that only one third of European countries provide central guidelines and teaching materials for entrepreneurship education. In addition, in secondary education, half of the countries integrate entrepreneurship into compulsory subjects such as economics and social sciences. Two countries (Lithuania, Romania) teach entrepreneurship as a compulsory separate subject. Practical entrepreneurial skills are specified by four countries (Lithuania, Romania, Liechtenstein and Norway).