What’s in it for education, training, youth and sport? Erasmus+

1. Erasmus+
What’s in it for
education,
training, youth
and sport?

2. ABOUT
ERASMUS+
Combines 7 EU
education, training
and youth
programmes, and
introduces sport for
the first time
Total budget of
€14.7 billion,
representing a 40%
budget increase

3. Budget breakdown
LEARNING MOBILITY OF
INDIVIDUALS
At least 63%
COOPERATION FOR
INNOVATION AND THE
EXCHANGE OF GOOD
PRACTICES
At least 28%
SUPPORT FOR POLICY
REFORM
4.2%

4. LEARNING
MOBILITY OF
INDIVIDUALS
(KA1)
 Staff mobility, in
particular for
teachers, lecturers,
school leaders and
youth workers
 Mobility for higher
education students,
vocational education
and training students
COOPERATION FOR
INNOVATION AND
EXCHANGE OF GOOD
PRACTICES (KA2)
 Strategic partnerships
between
education/training or
youth organisations and
other relevant actors
 Large scale partnerships
between education and
training establishments
and business:
Knowledge Alliances &
Sector Skills alliances
 IT-Platforms including e-
Twinning
 Cooperation with third
countries and focus on
neighbourhood countries
SUPPORT FOR
POLICY REFORM
(KA3)
 Open method of
Coordination
 Prospective initiatives
 EU recognition tools
 Dissemination &
exploitation
 Policy dialogue with
stakeholders, third
countries and
international
organisations
3 MAIN TYPES OF KEY ACTION

5. MAIN OBJECTIVES
SCHOOL
EDUCATION (SE)
 Reducing early school
leaving
 Improving attainment
in basic skills
 Reinforcing quality in
early childhood
education and care
VOCATIONAL
EDUCATION AND
TRAINING (VET)
 Increasing the
employability and life
skills of VET learners and
contributing to the
competitiveness of the
European economy
 Support the enhanced
European cooperation in
VET
 Quality assurance
ADULT EDUCATION
(AE)
 Modernising and
improving adult
education through
cooperation with other
sectors
 Validation of non-
formal / informal
education
 Guidance systems
 Quality assurance

6. STAFF MOBILITY
800,000 educators and
youth workers will
acquire new teaching
and learning methods
abroad

7. Key Action 1: Staff Mobility
SCHOOL
EDUCATION
Aims
 Develop school staff
competences
(languages, ICT, etc.)
 Offer professional
development
opportunities abroad
Main activities
 Professional
development
 Participation in
structured
courses / training
events abroad
 Job shadowing /
observation
period abroad
 Teaching assignments
VOCATIONAL
EDUCATION AND
TRAINING
Aims
 To update / acquire
knowledge of work practices
and/or refresh pedagogical
skills of VET professionals
Main activities
 Work placement in an
enterprise/training/
teaching institution
 Teaching assignment at a
partner institution
 Job shadowing in a teaching
/ training institution
NB!
KA1 in VET includes also the
VET learners’ traineeships
abroad
ADULT EDUCATION
Aims
 To develop and
broaden knowledge,
skills and
competences of AE
staff
Main activities
 Participation in
structured courses /
training events abroad
 Job shadowing /
observation period in
an adult education or
other sector relevant
to the organisation
abroad
 Teaching assignments

8.  The organisation defines its needs
and aims in terms of staff
development (European
Development Plan) and applies
for a mobility project consisting of
various individual mobilities
 A consortia (lead by a local or
regional school authority or a
coordinating body) can also apply
 Duration of a mobility: 2 days – 2
months (+ travel time)
 Duration of a mobility project:
between 12 and 24 months
 Funding: pre-defined unit costs
(travel, individual support,
organizational support, course
fees, special needs)
 Application deadline: as a rule 1
application round per year (in 2016
application deadline was 2nd Feb),
in some counties also second round
in the autumn
 Erasmus+ Programme Guide
p.30->
Key Action 1: Staff Mobility

9. STRATEGIC
PARTNERSHIPS
Cross-sectoral
cooperation in the
fields of Higher
Education, VET, School
Education and Adult
Education
25,000 partnerships
125,000 institutions

10. Depending on the objectives and the
composition of the Strategic
Partnership, projects may be of two
types:
 Strategic Partnerships supporting
innovation
 Strategic Partnerships supporting
exchange of good practices
Strategic Partnerships must address
either:
 at least one horizontal priority or
 At least one specific priority
relevant to the field of education,
training and youth that is mostly
impacted
Field specific descriptions can be found
at the
Erasmus+ Programme Guide
p. 107 ->
Key Action 2:
Strategic Partnerships

11. Key Action 2:
Strategic Partnerships
SCHOOL EDUCATION
Aims
 Schools, local/regional
school authorities,
teacher training
institutions and
departments, and other
types of organisations in
different countries to
develop, transfer and
implement innovative
practices
VOCATIONAL
EDUCATION AND
TRAINING
Aims:
Strategic Partnerships
 Transnational
cooperation between
VET providers and local /
regional business
communities
Aims:
Sector Skills Alliances
 To enhance the
responsiveness of VET
systems to sector-
specific labour market
needs, contributing to
increased economic
competitiveness of the
concerned sector
ADULT EDUCATION
Aims
 To provide quality
teaching and learning
opportunities for
adults and to
strengthen the
learning offer of AE
providers (focus on
basic skills, active
citizenship and key
competences for
employability)

12. Key Action 2:
Strategic Partnerships
SCHOOL EDUCATION
Main activities
 Cross-sector cooperation
between schools and other
organisations leading to i.e.
curriculum development,
reinforcing basic skills,
combating violence in
schools
 Local consortia between local
/ regional authorities and
schools to i.e. improve the
educational offer
 Exchanges of groups of
pupils within a project
aiming at reinforcing i.e.
linguistic skills and
intercultural awareness
 eTwinning for online
exchanges for teachers /
online workshops /
professional development,
etc.
VOCATIONAL EDUCATION
AND TRAINING
Main activities:
Strategic Partnerships
 Exchanging good practices and
innovation in VET provisions,
guidance, counselling
 Developing and delivering of new
VET teaching/training materials
and methods
 To foster structured and long term
cooperation among VET
institutions with stakeholders
 Cross-sector cooperation to build
bridges and share knowledge
between different formal and
informal E&T and youth sectors
Main activities:
Sector Skills Alliances
 Designing and delivering curricula
responding to the needs of labour
market and of the learners in
economic sectors
 Projects promoting work based
learning
 Projects facilitating recognition of
qualifications at EU level
ADULT EDUCATION
Main activities
 Cross-sector cooperation
for exchanging
experiences and best
practices between
organisations
 Developing, testing and
validating of new
curricula, teaching
methods or innovative
pedagogical approaches
 Projects addressing the
acquisition of basic skills
(literacy, numeracy and
ICT) and the provision of
second chance
opportunities/learning in
later life
 Improving the accessibility
of learning opportunities
for adults
 Developing strategic
cooperation between AE
providers and local /
regional authorities

13.  Different kinds of partnerships: projects may vary widely in terms of size,
complexity, experience, expected results, grant amount,…
 Multilateral: at least 3 organisations from 3 different programme countries
(exceptions: school-to-school partnerships (SE) and regional cooperation led by at least
two local/regional authorities from two different countries may also be bilateral)
 Duration of a partnership: 12-36 months
 Various types of mobilities: Transnational project meetings, Short term
exchanges of groups of pupils, Long term study mobility of pupils, Short term
joint staff training events, Long term teaching or training assignments
 Application deadline: 1 application round per year (in 2016 application
deadline was 31st March)
Key Action 2:
Strategic Partnerships

14.  Any organisation established in a Programme
country can be the applicant=coordinator
(on behalf of all other partners participating in
the project), e.g.:
 a university, a teacher training institution, a
school, a non-profit organisation, an enterprise,
a public body, a cultural organisation, an NGO, a
library, … (Exception school-to-school projects:
only schools can be applicants + partners)
 Under certain restricted conditions (substantial
added value to the project as a whole), an
organisation from a Partner Country can
participate in the project (Exception: not
possible in school-to-school projects)
 The application is written in cooperation with
all project partners – language of the project
 Multibeneficiary contracts: the coordinating
organisation receives the EU grant for the
whole project and is responsible for the overall
project management, reporting to the NA, and
transferring their share of the budget to the
partners (Exception School Education school-to-
school-partnerships (KA219): monobeneficiary
contracts => each school has a contract with its own
NA and is responsible for its own budget)
 Erasmus+ Programme Guide p. 107 ->
Key Action 2:
Strategic Partnerships

15. Project management and implementation
Transnational project meetings
Training, teaching and learning activities (= mobilities)
Special needs suppport (participants with disabilities)
Exceptional costs
Intellectual outputs
(only for partnerships supporting innovation)
Multiplier events
(only for partnerships supporting innovation)
KA2:
Costs that can be funded
Menu of cost items depending on the type and scope of partnership
 Most cost items: unit costs (instead of real costs)
 Maximum grant amount: 450,000 € for a partnership of 36 months =
Maximum 12,500 € per month for a project

16. ERASMUS+ BRINGS…
An integrated, more
accessible programme
A renewed focus on skills for
employment
New opportunities for
modernising teaching and
learning
New partnerships between
education and world of work

17. Links:
 Erasmus+ National Agencies
 Erasmus+ by the European Commission
 Erasmus+ Programme Guide
 Erasmus+ Eligible Countries
 Erasmus+ KA1 and KA2 Project Results
 SchoolEducationGateway for School Education
 EPALE for Adult Education
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