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KA2: Cooperation for innovation and
good practices

This Action is designed to develop the education,
training, and youth sectors through five main activities:

∠ Strategic partnerships to support innovation in the
sector as well as joint initiatives to promote
cooperation, peer-learning, and the sharing of Individuals can take part in some of the
experience. opportunities funded by Erasmus+, although
most will have to do so through an organisation
∠ Knowledge Alliances to foster innovation in and taking part in the programme. These
through higher education together with businesses,
opportunities abroad include studying, staff
and beyond, contributing to new approaches to teaching or staff training, traineeships,
teaching and learning, entrepreneurship in
volunteering in youth exchanges and youth
education, and the modernisation of higher working, and through these, individuals gain
education systems in Europe.
self-confidence, adaptability, openness,
mutual understanding and solidarity. There are
∠ Sector Skills Alliances to tackle skills gap and
ensure a better alignment of vocational education therefore many benefits in involvement in an
Erasmus+ project for both individuals and
and training with labour market needs. There are organisations. And European guidance
opportunities to modernise VET, exchange
counsellors play a major role in promoting and
knowledge and best practices, encourage working supporting the numerous possibilities of the
abroad, and increase the recognition of
programme.
qualifications.
Belgium FL and the Netherlands:
∠ Capacity-building projects in the field of higher
education to support the modernisation,
accessibility, and internationalisation of higher TRIAS is an Austrian led project, which has
developed an innovative approach to guidance
education in Partner Countries.
by combining outreach guidance work with
∠ Capacity-building projects in the field of youth to employers’ involvement. The project focused
support the development of youth work, non-formal on strengthening the competences of
learning, and volunteer work, as well as promote guidance practitioners to successfully reach
non-formal learning opportunities with Partner out to the workforce, especially to the low-
Countries qualified as one of the most important target
groups in adult education.

Activities for organisations include strategic
improvement of the professional skills of their staff,
organisational capacity building, and creating
transnational cooperative partnerships with
organisations from other countries in order to produce
innovative outputs or exchange best practices. Involved
organisations may gain an increased capacity to
operate at an international level, access to more funding
opportunities and projects as well as a more attractive
portfolio of opportunities for learners and staff at
participating organisations. �