The thesis entitled 'Youth Entrepreneurship' contains seven chapters describing youth entrepreneurship. Books, websites and other sources were used in the preparation of the paper. In light of the potential of entrepreneurs to create employment and sustainable growth, youth entrepreneurship is an opportunity and an incentive to use entrepreneurship to promote youth employment. This thesis focuses on youth entrepreneurship with a special focus on the opportunities and threats of entering and staying in entrepreneurship. After a theoretical discussion of entrepreneurship, the empirical part of the paper offers concrete examples of the challenges that young entrepreneurs face when establishing and running their own ventures. The aim of the research is to assess the entrepreneurial desire and intention of the selected cause, in order to determine the entrepreneurial potential of young people. The results of the research show a high level of development of youth entrepreneurship in the field of entrepreneurial attitudes of young people, ie their entrepreneurial potentials, and confirm the positive impact of entrepreneurial education on the development of youth entrepreneurship.