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Cooperation Partnerships aim to address common needs and priorities in the fields of education, training, youth and sport, enabling also transformation, change, leading to improvements and new approaches, etc. Also they aim to increase the quality in the work, activities and practices of organisations and institutions involved as well as to build capacity of organisations to work transnationally and across sectors.

While writing proposals, the horizontal priorities of the Erasmus+ programme must also be taken into consideration and these are:

• Inclusion and Diversity
• Environmental sustainability and action against climate change
• Digitisation
• Common values, civic engagement and participation

In the context of this call, there are also specific priorities regarding the field of youth, that need to be taken into account when writing proposals:

• Promoting active citizenship, young people’s sense of initiative and youth entrepreneurship including social entrepreneurship

​ The priority aims to foster active citizenship among young people, notably through volunteering and acts of solidarity, and thereby strengthen young people’s sense of initiative, particularly in the social field, and support their communities. Projects under this priority could also promote entrepreneurship, creative learning and social entrepreneurship among youth. Intercultural dialogue, knowledge and recognition of diversity and promotion of tolerance are key to this priority.

• Increasing quality, innovation and recognition of youth work

The priority aims to promote the recognition and validation of youth work and informal and non-formal learning on all levels, and support quality development and innovation in youth work. This includes capacity-building of youth workers in their online and offline practices, as well as support to the development and sharing of methods to reach marginalised young people, prevent racism and intolerance among youth, and the risks, opportunities and implications of digitalisation.

• Strengthening the employability of young people

The priority aims to strengthen young people’s key competences and basic skills. The youth sector plays an important role in easing the transition of young people from youth to adulthood, including supporting their integration into the labour market. Activities focusing on the inclusion and employability of young people with fewer opportunities (including NEETs), with particular emphasis on young people at risk of marginalisation and those with a migrant background, are at the core of this priority.

• Reinforcing links between policy, research and practice

This priority addresses the need for stronger links between policy, research and practice in the youth field to provide improved evidence of needs and facilitate policy making. Activities to promote better knowledge about the situation of young people and youth policies in Europe and beyond will be of importance to this priority.