European Programmes

IEKEP designs and implements European pilot programmes in cooperation with other E.U. organizations since 1995

READY - Raising EU Awareness Through Accessible Documents for Youth

READY - Raising EU Awareness Through Accessible Documents for Youth started in 2022 and ended in 2024. It aims to disseminate and make European texts easier to understand by creating a simpler version of some Articles of the European Treaties. 

VOICES - Empowering Women for Equal Participation and Driving Change

VOICES is a European (Erasmus+) project designed to help to bridge the gender divide and foster women's participation in society, by providing women and professionals working with them with a set of gender-responsive educational resources, specifically designed to promote gender equality and equal participation in society. 

EMPOWER - Empowering Persons with Disabilities Through Effective Disaster Management

The Empower project (2020-1-TR01-KA204-094078) was funded by Erasmus+ and started in 2020 and ended in 2023. IEKEP participated as a partner, with partners from Turkey, (Istanbul Valiligi, the leader, Istanbul Aile, Istanbul Technical University), Romania (H-Foundation), Italy (CSF) and Spain (INFODEF). The scope of the project was to create a manual for effective disaster management for people with disabilities. The aim was to empower people with disabilities and to try to inform them and their caregivers about the actions to follow in case of a natural disaster (earthquake, flood, etc.)

FENIX - Fostering Organisational Resilience and Adaptive Management in Enterprises

The Fenix project Fenix (2021-1-ES01-KA220-VET-000032954) is one of the projects in which IEKEP participated as a partner. The participating countries are Spain (Innovation Training Center), Portugal (ISQ e-learning) and Romania (HELIXCONNECT), while the leader is the University of the Balearic Islands from Spain. The FENIX project aims to contribute to strengthening the resilience of European enterprises and their employees through the development of an innovative gamified learning experience, a guideline to support the implementation of systemic resilience practices in enterprises and an online fast-track course on adaptive management.

LIFEx - LifeComp Immersive Learning Experiences for Corporate Training

The LIFEx project aims to have a positive impact on European workplaces by providing a state-of-the-art immersive learning experience to support the development of soft skills as set out in the European LifeComp Framework (2020). Our partners come from Ireland, Italy, Romania and Portugal.

It Works! The Employable Youth

The Erasmus+ European program "It Works! The Employable Youth" with IEKEP as a partner started in September 2019 and is expected to end in August 2022.

touristic! Upskilling Disabled People with Digital Skills Applied to Accessible Tourism Jobs

The Erasmus+ European program "Upskilling Disabled People with Digital Skills Applied to Accessible Tourism Jobs" coordinated by IEKEP started in September 2019 and is expected to end in August 2022.

Europe3E - Europe Through Young Eyes: Exchange, Explore, Exhibit

The objectives of the "Europe through young Eyes: Exchange, Explore, Exhibit (Europe3E)” project are to reach meaningful Active Citizenship, to raise Political Awareness, and to deepen Social Inclusion among youth, through peer and photovoice research, political simulation and policy recommendations. 

SIMRA - Supporting the Integration of Migrant Women, Refugees and Asylum Seekers 

SIMRA’s general objective is to foster active participation of migrant/asylum seeking/refugee women in the ‘host’ society by developing, implementing and evaluating a pilot intervention scheme. This is expected to create the social space for social interaction to take place, on the premise that the more dynamic and inclusive the interaction, the more successful the integration. 

Re-orient Project

Re-orient Project began in 2018 and ended in 2021.The Project targets trainers/coaches/counselors and VET providers, aiming at upgrading their skills to enhance clients/beneficiaries’ chances in the labor market. For this, it creates an innovative methodology and the complementary ICT educational materials to support it, in the context of vocational re-orientation, technical orientation and up- & re-skilling.

No Gaps - "Transnational Methodology of Socio-labor Intervention with Young Women, Asylum Seekers and Refugees”

The No Gaps Project aims to create an integral and replicable methodology of intervention at European level for professionals working with young migrant women, asylum-seekers and refugees.