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This bachelor's thesis aggregate notions of entrepreneurship education that has been given over the years. There are lot of definitions and person who are interest in this subject can find quite different opinion. When we define entrepreneurship, it is remarkable, that intrapreneurship means industrious attitude and entrepreneurship means business and practice. Entrepreneurship education is a common topic in Finnish education debate and people think that it is necessary. Still and all, it is not own subject in school and so it doesn’t have the criteria of good knowledge in national core curriculum. Additionally studies shows that teachers have different views on this subject. Because of this entrepreneurship education may seem confusing. With this bachelor thesis I look for a response to the problem: what is entrepreneurship education? In this thesis I take to review national core curriculum 2014, researches of entrepreneurship education and society. I include teachers, students, decision-makers, organizations, companies, old national core curriculums and civil servants to society. In addition I consider what skills we can teach through entrepreneurship education? In this case highlighted my experience from Me&MyCity-day. This thesis shows that the current national core curriculum doesn’t mention the term entrepreneurship education. Instead of there are many mentions to entrepreneurship and companies. The relationship between national core curriculum and entrepreneurship is economical. Based on researches and perceptions of society, there are four category in entrepreneurship education: preparing for the future, build transferable skills to meet with uncertainty, industrious attitude and work as an entrepreneur. We can learn many skills through entrepreneurship education. Problem solving skills and accountability were highlighted in Me&MyCity-day. These observations are also in line with research literature. The conclusion of the thesis we can say that entrepreneurship education is the teaching of entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship. Intrapreneurship includes preparing for the future, transferable skills to meet with uncertainty and industrious attitude. Entrepreneurship includes work as an entrepreneur.