This includes understanding the role and contribution of women to a nation’s competitiveness drive. The shift in awareness is understanding that women’s entrepreneurship is less a question of gender and more an imperative for growth (Bekh, 2013). The preaccession economies face similar challenges, particularly in terms of policy implementation, monitoring and evaluation. Translating the EU’s recommendations on the entrepreneurship key competence (European Union, 2006) into curriculum reforms and teacher readiness requires time to see through the changes across the schooling system (European Commission, 2014).