Entrepreneurs change the way we think, work and live. Around the globe, inspiring young people are building successful companies around ideas that are driven by their ambitions and enabled by their entrepreneurial skills and values. Generation Z - referring to people born after 1997 - is reshaping our economies with its distinctive approaches to work and entrepreneurship.

The transition to green energy offers new opportunities for rural regions in Europe in particular: our calculations show an increase in employment and added value by 2050, especially for rural regions that are currently lagging behind economically.
Thomas Schwab, economic expert at the Bertelmann Stiftung, explains how the energy transition in Europe will affect the various regions and what these results mean for European cohesion policy.