Key Action 2 Strategic Partnership for youth gives the chance to a variety of European partners and organizations to take part to projects related to School Education, Vocational Education and Training (VET), Adult Education (AE) and Youth. Partners must be chosen following specific criteria; among these, the most important is their strong connection to the project’s topic, so to actively participate to it, contributing to the development, exchange and implementation of innovative practices. They should also be able to produce high-quality training for the beneficiaries of the projects. In order to give everyone the opportunity to exchange and create ideas and models, KA2 foresees the possibility to plan transnational meetings and trainings.

Failing to understand the global interconnectedness can lead to intercultural misunderstandings and conflicts. Today, we are facing an EU crisis regarding migration and globalization. Intolerance, fear and discrimination are rising in a concerning rhythm, influencing political decision, society and putting in risk the values of the EU project.
Developing and improving services that consider diversity, including disadvantaged groups, facilitating meaningful participation of different cultural groups, and increasing the awareness of youth to advocate for diversity, ensures that all voices are heard.
Feeling the impact of globalization at local level, our activities have been converging into the need to aware local communities and prepare youth for intercultural dialogue. Each entity from the partnership and most organizations working in our field strike with:
- Constant need for innovative and attractive methodology to work on intercultural competences among youth, preparing them to deal with the internationalization of communities;
- Constant need for professional development of youth workers to keep update on the constant change rhythm of globalization;

Explore aims to:
- Invest in the capacity building of youth workers on intercultural competences and youth motivation promoting high-quality work and innovative methods of reaching out to Youth;
- Learn, adapt and develop knowledge, competencies and tools to work on diversity, intercultural learning and intercultural dialogue, using creative methodology like local intercultural encounters/immersion experiences, gamification, storytelling, among others;
- Promote the exchange of good practices regarding ICC training and youth work; among public/private partners from 5 countries, strengthening cross-cooperation;
- Broaden the definition of culture, youth motivation and intercultural learning crossing approaches of public/private entities, addressing stereotypes and misunderstandings;
- Strengthen the strategy of communication to the target-group, through exchange of good practices between macro-organizations, cooperatives and medium-organizations;
- Contribute to the sense of belonging, as European Citizens and motivate participants to learn more about EU through transnational workforce and mobilities.

1) Empowered international organizations and youth workers that will accomplish better their mission of transforming young people into active and tolerant citizens towards minorities, globalization and people from different cultural backgrounds.
(2) Tangible materials that will be disseminated worldwide and have free access.
From this project, we will have several tools that will mark the partnership:
- Map platform; 
- Booklet “Motivating Youth into Intercultural Dialogue”. 
(3) Stronger work-force of youth workers that will motivate and impact youth to become the kind of citizens that we need in the middle of globalization in general, and in this EU crisis: open and tolerant, mobilized for social inclusion and intercultural dialogue. Additionally, inspired by their youth workers, they will be motivated to discover the EU project and, in the end, they will influence their community to accept and value diversity.

To empower youth, we need to empower youth workers and boost, first, Youth work that is known as a tool for personal development, social integration and the active citizenship of young people. The potential of youth work is enhanced when intercultural learning is used as a transversal approach that can guide all the projects developed and action taken.