Erasmus + – Partnerships for Innovation – Forward-Looking Projects – Vocational Education and Training (VET) – 2023

Objectives

• Innovative initiatives with a strong impact on education and training reforms in specific strategic policy areas
• Contributing to the strengthening of Europe’s innovation capacity by promoting innovation in education and training
• Creating systemic change through fostering innovation at both practice and policy-level
• Support forward-looking ideas focusing on key topics and priorities at EU level, with a clear potential to be mainstreamed in one or more sectors
• As fully innovative, ground-breaking educational methods and practices and/or transfer of innovation: ensuring at EU level a sustainable exploitation of innovative project results and/or transferability into different contexts and audiences

Priorities

• Priority 1: micro-credentials for employability
• Priority 2: improving the attractiveness of Vocational Education and Training (VET) through partnerships and networks of VET providers

Among financed actions

• Improve quality, efficiency, attractiveness, and equity of education and training systems
• Improve effectiveness of policies in the field of education and training
• Support the implementation of EU Frameworks and legal initiatives as well as country-specific recommendations from the European Semester
• Improved evidence and understanding on target group(s), learning and teaching situations and effective methodologies and tools that can inspire and stimulate innovation at system level
• Develop knowledge to support evidence-based policy
• Trigger behavioural shifts at EU level

Additional information

• This call for proposals is an open call for proposals
• Initial duration of the action: 36 months

Eligibility

• Be a legal person (public or private entity)
• Be established in an EU Member State or third country associated to the Programme
• Higher education institutions established in an EU Member State or third country associated to the Programme must hold a valid Erasmus Charter for Higher Education (ECHE)
• A consortium composed of at least 6 entities, established in at least 3 different EU Member States or associated countries to the programme must be constituted
• For at least 3 eligible countries, the consortium must include, per country :
  • At least 1 enterprise, industry or sector representative organisation
  • At least 1 vocational education and training provider, or representative organisation

• Total budget of the call: 35 million euro
• Total budget of the topic “ERASMUS-EDU-2023-PI-FORWARD-LOT2”: 10 million euro
• Amount of the grant: up to 900 000 euro

This grant is a lump sum grant