In general there are in Austria as well as in Styria well equipped living conditions for young people, Austria had in the last year in relation to other countries and European average a rather good economic and employment development – of course with some impacts by global and European influences in the last few years – but in principle a continuing positive development especially for transition processes from school to world of work, dual education in apprenticeship and youth employment in most of the regions and economic areas and sectors.

Austria is a high industrialized state, with about 40 percent of the gross domestic product by industrial and producing sector, additional important sectors are trade, tourism and, not so much in the dimension of gross domestic product and employment, but concerning living and social conditions, cultural background, landscape and environment, the agriculture and rural sector.

Offers for educational development of young people are mostly well equipped, some challenges exist in rural regions concerning the distances to the next school offers.

A special figure of the Austrian education system is the upper secondary level, about 80 percent of young people in the age from 15 to 19 attend vocational education programs, half of them a in full-time-school programs, half in dual education-apprenticeship pathways.

This is relevant for the aspects of entrepreneurship education, because vocational education pathways could increase the perspectives and intentions for entrepreneurial developments.

In principle all this figures are relevant for the situation of youth in Austria, with some variations and differences between the provinces and especially in the capital Vienna. The main connections with the topics of entrepreneurship education are the same in all provinces of Austria.

One exception of this is the demographic development. In all Austrian provinces, especially in the rural regions, the numbers of young people are decreasing in an intensive perspective, up to minus 25 percent within the next 15 years. A big difference exist between the development in the more urban regions, especially Vienna, Graz and Linz as the three largest cities in Austria, in most of the other regions the demographic trends are negative. A special aspect is the rate of migration, in urban regions the percentage of young people with migration background is much higher than in other regions of Austria and the provinces.