Academic and youth unemployment are growing strongly at national and provincial level. This is why the educational institutions implementing vocational training in North Karelia want to be pioneers in Finland through the joint development project, by promoting the ability of students (and those who have already graduated but unemployed) to lead themselves in a changing labour market and by increasing the growth of entrepreneurial thinking. By integrating the possibility of experimenting with entrepreneurship as part of the studies, students will be given the experience of success in selling their own skills and marketing them more boldly to their own competence-based abilities. The aim of this joint project is to take the attitude of entrepreneurship-friendly and team learning and team entrepreneurship towards pedagogical approaches, the use of educational institution staff as a preparatory work approach and new ways for students to learn, with the focus of the project’s development measures on the development of entrepreneurial skills. Such changes in the operating culture require time to be applied together to be suitable for their own use and a volume is needed to reach as many individuals as possible from the target groups. The problems identified in previous entrepreneurship projects and training have been that entrepreneurship may not be able to learn in practice or the teaching has reached only a small group of highly motivated students, or the training is organised according to the product/company life cycle — not according to the learner’s skill level. In recent years, a number of new digital tools for enterprise and teaching have developed to overcome these challenges and create a completely new form of entrepreneurship education training. The aim of the project is to promote entrepreneurship, which is important for the economic well-being of the region, by strengthening the entrepreneurship competences of the target groups so that the skills of individuals develop to the next level during the project. In other words, for example, those who have no experience in entrepreneurship will, as a result of the measures taken by the project, gain practical experience of small-scale entrepreneurship (light entrepreneurship) and will open up new opportunities for employment in an existing company or to continue the commercialisation process aimed at creating new entrepreneurship. The project will experiment with new forms of entrepreneurship and skills based on rapid and low-threshold experiments, so that entrepreneurship traineeships are better integrated into operational and learning environments relevant to target groups and influenced by project promoters and stakeholders. These environments include combining the experimentation of entrepreneurship with studies and related work life projects, internships/work-learnings and the thesis process at Karelia University of Applied Sciences. In addition, after graduation, entrepreneurship can be implemented, for example, in a cooperative with the help of unemployment protection. In addition, new entrepreneurship pedagogy will be developed that will be scalable and scaled much better, increasing the number of entrepreneurship experiments at different levels, i.e. the level of entrepreneurship competences, by as large a mass as possible. This will increase the chances of creating peak success stories as well as significant growth in new work. During the preparation of the project, discussions have been held on 11 September 2015 with the Joensuu TE Services (Antero Kallinen, Esko Mantsinen and Kaija-Anmari Tunttunen) about the possibility for unemployed people to participate in new entrepreneurship education through open studies. It was noted that participation does not change the labour market status when studies are not full-time and therefore do not affect the social benefits of the participants. This project provides a safe way to try entrepreneurship in a completely new way. The project measures are implemented through five work packages, testing different methods and developing pedagogical activities. This means that the concrete working methods of Karelia-amk and the North Karelia Association of Education and Training with the target groups are different. As a result of the measures, Karelia-amk and the North Karelia Association for Education and Training and their educational institutions promote the employment of students in a challenging market situation. Employment is stimulated by the growth of entrepreneurial thinking, the development of self-management skills and the combination of different skills through team and team entrepreneurship.