The Green Up Yourself project is part of the "Erasmus +" programme. Its main objective is to promote entrepreneurship and employability of young people living in rural areas in the European Union (EU). The project aims to develop a training programme designed to promote the employability of young rural people in green jobs and entrepreneurship, based on the results of extensive research, which are presented in this report. Therefore, the aim of this study is to identify the training needs in relation to the competences described by the European Green Competences (GreenComp) and Entrepreneurship (EntreComp) frameworks among the young rural population, to collect Best Practices on green entrepreneurship and to identify green employment niches in each of the participating countries. The project led by Spain through the Fundación Santa María la Real (FSMLR) has the participation of five entities distributed in different EU member countries, which are: Cyprus(CARDET)1, Slovenia (STEP)2, Greece (iED)3, Italy (CIAPE)4, North Macedonia5 (LAG)6, countries in which this research has been carried out and whose entities have been involved in the collection of the information obtained. This document compiles the objectives of the project in section two, followed by the methodology used, which is detailed in the third section; the fourth section presents the state of the art on youth and rural green employment and entrepreneurship and the existing training needs; the fifth section reflects the results obtained, subdivided into three sections; the sixth section concludes with the main findings of the research and finally the last section presents the recommendations to be taken into account for the development of the training programme.