DIGITAL OFFICE TERMINAL
Partnerships & Innovation
Key Action 2 (KA2) is the part of Erasmus+ that brings organisations together to cooperate, innovate, and exchange good practices. It focuses on building strong partnerships and sustainable projects that create long-term benefits for education, training, youth work, and communities across Europe and beyond.
At ICDET, KA2 is where we work side by side with schools, universities, NGOs, VET centres, businesses, and public institutions to design initiatives that tackle real challenges — from digitalisation and wellbeing to sustainability, creativity, and inclusion.
What KA2 Supports
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Strategic Partnerships – collaborations between NGOs, schools, VET centres, universities, and businesses to exchange practices and build capacity.
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Innovation Projects – development of new tools, methodologies, curricula, ICT platforms, and resources addressing the challenges of today.
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Sectoral Cooperation – projects targeted at specific areas: school education, VET, higher education, adult learning, and youth.
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Cross-Sector Projects – cooperation between multiple fields (education, business, NGOs, local authorities, etc.) to address broad European priorities.
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Capacity Building in Youth – strengthening youth organisations and networks in Europe and beyond, especially in partner countries.
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Small-Scale Partnerships – accessible projects for newcomers and grassroots organisations, ensuring equal opportunities to participate.
ICDET Focus
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Innovation – we co-create new approaches and educational tools that reflect the realities of young people today.
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Partnership Building – with a network of over 30 international partners, ICDET helps strengthen cooperation at local, national, and European levels.
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Expertise in Youth & Education – our KA2 projects focus on youth wellbeing, inclusion, entrepreneurship, creativity, digitalisation, and active citizenship.
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Supporting Newcomers – we provide guidance for smaller organisations and schools that are entering Erasmus+ for the first time.
Opportunities for Partners
By working with ICDET in KA2, partner organisations can:
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Collaborate in project design and proposal development.
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Develop and test innovative tools, platforms, or methods.
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Share and adopt good practices through exchanges and cooperation.
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Build long-term alliances that extend beyond the lifespan of a single project.
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Increase their visibility and impact at both European and international levels.
REALIZED PROJECTS
"Green all together"
This project led by Istanbul University's idea stems from Environmental problems and Climate change and aims to raise environmental awareness through the creation and use of Eco-friendly products. What we work towards is the adoption of Green behaviours and assuming Responsibility for the climate crisis by young people and people in general.
The partnership consists of 6 partners: Istanbul University, Nishantashi University, ICDET, CRD - SEE, ADEFIS JI, and Inercia Digital, from 4 countries: Turkiye, Bulgaria, North Macedonia and Spain.
"Social Media Literacy for #WOMENRIGHTS"
The project led by Adefis JI aims to create an equal society, strengthening the capacity of organisations working in the field of gender equality and domestic violence through training on Social Media skills, gender equality and women’s rights.
The partnership consists of 6 partners from Bulgaria, Thailand, Cabo Verde, Dominican Republic, Indonesia and Spain
"Gender Watch"
What this project seeks to foster and encourage is to advocate for gender equality through the use of media and by training youth workers on how they can better report, showcase and promote gender equality through the biggest mediums and communication channels they use for their everyday job. Our project addresses gender as an equality issue, with a positive approach to diminish the negative stereotypes and discrimination related to sex and/or gender.
The partnership consists of 5 partners from Georgia, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Moldova and Spain.
"Standing up 2 FGM"
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“Standing up 2 FGM” is an inclusive and participatory project that aims in strengthening the capacities of Tunisian youth workers and NGOs in work with FGM. For reaching the foreseen project goals we have proposed a methodology for the execution of all planned activities.
The partnership consists of 6 partners from Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan, Germany, the UK, N.Macedonia and Bulgaria
"Enhancing new-age Skills for Adults"
The project aimed to promote the use of ICT in combination with soft skills techniques in adult learning focusing on ICT tools for distance learning, on the basis of exchanging good practices between the partners and in response to the priorities of the Programme.
The partnership consists of 4 partners from North Macedonia, Bulgaria, Portugal and Spain
"(i)Migration+action=global reaction"
The project led by ICDET focuses on 2 main issues – immigration-related issues in connection to the refugee crisis, trigger factors, legislation for migrants, sharing know-how on work with migrants and second–emigration and youth unemployment, and training participating organizations in developing possibilities for employability. The project offers strong know-how of the main problems, possible solutions, and best practices around Europe.
The partnership consists of 7 partners from Bulgaria, Germany, Estonia, Spain, Indonesia, Dominican Republic, Kenya
"European response in migration and integration"
An inclusive and participatory project that aims in strengthening the capacities of Georgian youth workers and NGOs in the work and integration of migrants. The project will build strong relationships between organizations in Europe and Georgia, will enhance cooperation and exchange of good practices and will develop skills and competencies in the field of policy development.
The partnership consists of 6 partners from Georgia, North Macedonia, Bulgaria, Estonia, Germany and Spain
"Sustainable Measures for Advanced Research and Training"
Project's main aim is to encourage the setting up of organic production enterprises and to encourage the entrepreneurship spirit in people. It is the idea not only to motivate adults but also to help them in understanding the main reasons, present them with all aspects in order to have in mind the actual situation and the cause for this initiative, as well as the expected results and outcomes from taking such step, by bringing them closer to a sustainable model of production.
The partnership consists of 5 partners from N. Macedonia, Bulgaria, Italy, Croatia and Spain
"Computer Literacy for the new age"
With the idea of fostering new and better working places for adults, as well as making them feel more comfortable in the environment itself, we came up with the idea to prepare a project where adults can gain overall computer literacy and IT skills, with further tendencies to be more adaptable (acceptable) on the labour market.
The partnership consists of 5 partners from N. Macedonia, Estonia, Bulgaria, Portugal and Spain
"Cheese and Wine and Tourism will shine! - Support to young cheese and wine sommeliers from the EU "
The main goal of the project Wine and Cheese is to promote in general the importance of rural tourism (and appropriate education models) with a primary focus on the authenticity of the wine and cheese culture at each level of society in the participating countries.
The partnership consists of 4 partners from N. Macedonia, Bulgaria, Portugal and Spain
"Agro-youth entrepreneurship and pan-European cooperation"
The project aims to develop the capacities of youth workers in relation to social entrepreneurship, the development of the business plan and the personal development of entrepreneurs, working with IT tools and web platforms.
The partnership consists of 3 partners from Georgia, Bulragia, N. Macedonia and Spain
“Development of capacities for work with (i)migrants”
Project tackling one of the biggest issues facing migration today. The International Organization for Migration calls Europe and Asia the most dangerous destination for irregular migration in the world, and the Asian water routes and the Mediterranean as the world's most dangerous border crossings. Yet despite the escalating human toll, organizations working in this area are having difficulties in getting skills and capacities developed as a way to respond to its current migrant influx, in order to work on protecting the rights of migrants and refugees.
The partnership consists of 4 partners from N. Macedonia, Bulgaria, Germany and Indonesia
