Programme Category
Programme Name
Programme Description
Identifier Code
Call
Summary
The overall objective of this action is to create European partnerships of teacher education and training providers to set up Teacher Academies that will develop a European and international outlook in teacher education. These Academies aim to develop teacher education in line with the EU’s priorities in education policy and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the European Education Area. The action focuses on networking, mobility and innovative methods, and will also embrace multilingualism, language awareness and cultural diversity topics.
Detailed Call Description
Teacher Academies should identify and work on one or more priorities that are particularly relevant for their partnership and explore synergies with the other priorities, with a view to enhancing a high-quality education/professional development, and addressing (future) teachers’ pressing needs, notably by offering teachers courses, modules and other learning opportunities on:
- Inclusion and diversity.
- Well-being.
- Environment, climate change and sustainability.
- Digital capacity building of teachers, learners and organisations,
- STEM and STEAM.
- Common values, civic engagement and participation.
Each Teacher Academy shall implement a coherent and comprehensive set of activities, such as:
- Collaborate and establish networks and international communities of practice between teacher education providers, teacher associations, public organisations involved in teacher education and other relevant actors to create innovative strategies and programmes for initial and continuous professional development for teachers and schools.
- Develop and deliver joint, innovative and effective learning modules on teacher education and for teacher competences on challenging and/or new pedagogical matters of common concern. They shall address the distinct needs of student teachers (as part of their initial education) and serving teachers (as part of continuous professional development) and should be based on a thorough needs analysis and tested during the project.
- Develop joint learning offer with a strong European dimension that includes mobility activities in all its forms, setting up, for instance summer schools, study visits for students and teachers as well as other forms of cross campus collaboration, both physical and virtual.
- Identify effective ways to remove obstacles of mobility and identify conditions, including practical arrangements and recognition of learning, in order to increase the number and quality of mobility and its inclusion as an integral part of initial and continuous learning offer for teachers.
- Involve schools and in particular training schools to experiment and share innovative new ways of teaching (including for distance and blended approaches to teaching and learning).
- Undertake, in line with the objectives of this call, studies, research and/or surveys or collections of effective practices to produce summaries, discussion papers, recommendations etc. to stimulate discussion and to inform policies on teacher education.
- Promote and give preference to the existing Erasmus+ tools, for example eTwinning as part of the European School Education Platform, for virtual mobility, collaboration, communication for testing and sharing results and On-Line Language Support (OLS) for improving language skills for mobility.
Call Total Budget
Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan
The maximum EU grant per project is €1.500.000.
This action follows a lump-sum funding model. The amount of the single lump-sum contribution will be determined for each grant based on the estimated budget of the action proposed by the applicant. The amount will be fixed by the granting authority on the basis of the estimated project budget, evaluation result and a funding rate of 80%.
Thematic Categories
- Education and training
- New Entrepreneurship
Eligibility for Participation
- Associations
- Educational Institutions
- NGOs
- Other Beneficiaries
- Private Bodies
- Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions
- State-owned Enterprises
Eligibility For Participation Notes
In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities, if applicable) must be legal entities (public or private bodies), established an EU Member State or third country associated to the Programme.
The applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities, if applicable) can be, for example (nonexhaustive list):
- Teacher Education Institutions (colleges, institutes, universities providing initial teacher education and/or continuing professional development) for teachers and Early childhood education and care (ECEC) staff at ISCED levels 0-3, including VET teachers;
- Ministries or similar public bodies responsible for school education policies;
- Public (local, regional or national) and private bodies responsible for developing policies and offer for teacher education as well as defining standards for teachers’ qualifications;
- Teacher associations or other nationally recognised providers of teacher education and continuous professional development;
- Authorities responsible for education and training of teachers and supervision of their continuous professional development and qualifications;
- Schools working with teacher education providers to allow for practical training as part of teacher education;
- Other early childhood education and care (ECEC) organisations or schools (from primary schools to initial VET) or other organisations (e.g. NGOs, teacher associations) relevant for the project.
Other entities may participate in other consortium roles, such as associated partners.
Consortium composition
An Erasmus+ Teacher Academy must include a minimum 6 applicants (beneficiaries; not affiliated entities), from a minimum of 4 EU Member States or third countries associated to the Programme , which complies with the following conditions:
- A minimum of 4 nationally established providers of initial teacher education from 3 different EU Member States and third countries associated to the Programme, and
- a minimum of 1 nationally established provider of continuing professional development (in-service training) for teachers and a minimum of 1 practice/training school.
Call Opening Date
Call Closing Date
National Contact Point(s)
Foundation for the Management of European (EU) Lifelong Learning Programmes
Website: Erasmus+ – IDEP
Website with Contact details: Εpikoinonia – Erasmus+ – IDEP
Address: Prodromou & Dimitrakopoulou 2, Nicosia 1090, Cyprus
Τelephone: +357 22448888
Email: info@idep.org.cy
EU Contact Point
For help related to this call, please contact: EACEA-EPLUS-TEACHER-ACADEMIES@ec.europa.eu