In view of the fact that youth unemployment is high in the EU, the planned project aimed at promoting the consideration of self-employment in vocational education. Therefore, it was benefited from the emerging synergy effects of the cooperation between youth and (ex-) managers from the age group 55+ in entrepreneurship projects. For this purpose an analysis of the potentials in terms of entrepreneurial thinking and transaction of young adults in the age of usually 15-26 years is conducted. To recruit the young adults a cooperation with, among others, (vocational) schools, high schools, chambers, career centers and employment agencies was arranged. The implemented diagnostic tool has been developed, tested and evaluated in the context of the Project “Losleger”. The tool assesses to what extend competences, attitudes and skills are given which are necessary for business formation or running a company. This analysis of potentials can be seen as a special form of career counseling. The analysis’ results were presented to the participants in a constructive way in professional and individual feedback talks. Subsequent to the feedback talks young people which were identified as having entrepreneurial potentials were promoted by entrepreneurship education. This promotion included not only competence development programs but also working with an older employee in the age of 55+ as a mentor who assisted with his/her experience-based knowledge. To implement this, a special concept, the founders’ workshop, was developed and tested. The concept is based on experiences of the German Founder Prize for Students, especially on the student enterprises. This special methodological-didactic form of qualification stimulated the youth to deploy their potentials and to use the emerging synergy effects, which originate from the different perspectives of the two involved groups. For recruiting the older managers so called multipliers which come from organizations, schools, and career centers were used. The parallel, but country-specifically adapted implementation of the two projecttools (potential analysis and founder workshop) in the countries, Greece, Hungary, Bulgaria, Lithuania and Spain, it was shown that this concept of the project enterprise+ can be used successfully in a EU-wide context.The learning philosophy the project is based on is the focus on strengths. This approach was beneficial for the competence development of both the youth and the older employees. The reason is that the necessary effort for further developing strengths is significantly smaller and therefore more promising than transforming weaknesses to strength. The talentscouts (for the potential analysis) as well as the mentors (for the founders’ workshop) were trained in the project’s course. Therefore the specifically needed competencies to conduct their tasks successfully were identified at first. One of these was the ability to give constructive feedback. These tasks were dependent on the multiplier and could include initiating, conducting and evaluation the analysis of the potentials and the founders’ workshops in a specific country, as well as coaching the youth. Following the identification, self-learning units which support the multipliers in their work were developed on the basis of the different experiences made during the project in the countries. In sum the project aimed at initiating and implementing projects which are conducted by youth and older employees together to contribute to a reduction of youth unemployment. To reach this aim motivated and competent partner organizations in the named countries where won which supported the success of the project with their expertise and their local coordination of the project. In Germany it is the chair of Economics and Economic Education of the University of Duisburg-Essen, which supported the project with the tool for the analysis of potentials. Furthermore the organization “Alt hilft Jung” helped the success of the project with their expertise in the cooperation of youth and older employees. In Hungary and Bulgaria the chamber of commerce, in Lithuania the chamber for foreign trade could be won as partners. The Greek partners are on the one hand a research institute and on the other hand a consultancy and the Spanish partner is the European corporate center for innovation and entrepreneurship.