ERASMUS + – Partnerships for Innovation: Forward-Looking Projects – Higher Education – 2026

Objectives

• To identify, develop, test and/or assess innovative (policy) approaches that have the potential of becoming mainstreamed, thus improving education and training systems
• To accompany and support partnerships in designing and implementing the necessary actions to facilitate the rollout of the joint European degree label
• To develop leadership capabilities enabling transformative change in the higher education sector in Europe

Priorities

• Priority 1: focus on embedding the joint European degree label into national and regional education systems and legal environment
• Priority 2: conduct targeted communication and promotion
• Priority 3: enabling leaders to guide their institutions through the green and digital transitions
• Priority 4: encourage academic freedom, sustainability, diversity and transnational cooperation, while ensuring balanced participation

Among financed actions

• Training and capacity building
• Individual and organisational learning
• Design and implement procedures
• Institutional visits, job shadowing and/or events with experts

Eligibility

• Be legal entities (public or private bodies);
• Be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.:
  • Erasmus+ Programme Countries:
    • EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs))
    • non-EU countries:
      • listed EEA countries and countries associated to the Erasmus+ Programme (list of participating countries)
• Any public or private organisation active in the fields of education or training.
• For higher education institutions (HEIs) established in Erasmus+ Programme Countries: be holders of the ECHE certificate
• A consortium composed of
  • at least 2 entities, which complies different conditions (see details on the call document) must be constituted (ERASMUS-EDU-2025-PI-FORWARD-HE-EDPP)
  • at least 2 entities, which complies different conditions (see details on the call document) must be constituted (ERASMUS-EDU-2025-PI-FORWARD-HE-LD)

Additional information

• Initial duration of the action: 24 months

Extensions are possible, if duly justified and through an amendment.

• Contact: EACEA-PI-FORWARD-HE@ec.europa.eu

Useful

• Guidelines: Click here
• Other call documents: Click here
• Executive Agency website: Click here
• More information: Click here

• Total budget of the call: 8 million euros
• Budget per topic:
  • ERASMUS-EDU-2025-PI-FORWARD-HE-EDPP : 7 million euros
  • ERASMUS-EDU-2025-PI-FORWARD-HE-LD : 1 million euros
• Amount of the grant per topic:
  • ERASMUS-EDU-2025-PI-FORWARD-HE-EDPP : between 500.000 and 800.000 euros
  • ERASMUS-EDU-2025-PI-FORWARD-HE-LD : up to 1 million euros
• The grant awarded may be lower than the amount requested.
• Funding rate: up to 85% of the total eligible costs

This grant is a lump sum grant.