This action will aim to foster innovation, creativity and participation, as well as social entrepreneurship, in different fields of education and training, within sectors or across sectors and disciplines.

Forward-Looking Projects are large-scale projects that aim to identify, develop, test and/or assess innovative (policy) approaches that have the potential of becoming mainstreamed, thus improving education and training systems. They will support forward-looking ideas responding to key European priorities. They should give input for improving education and training systems, as well as bring a substantial innovative effect in terms of methods and practices to all types of learning and active participation settings for Europe’s social cohesion.

The goal is to support transnational cooperation projects implementing a coherent and comprehensive set of sectoral or cross-sectoral activities that either:

1. foster innovation in terms of scope, ground-breaking methods and practices, and/or
2. ensure a transfer of innovation (across countries, policy sectors or target groups), thus ensuring at European level a sustainable exploitation of innovative project results and/or transferability into different contexts and audiences.

Project budget (maximum grant amount): €1.000.000 per project

The grant awarded may be lower than the amount requested.

The grant will be a lump-sum grant. This means that it will reimburse a fixed amount, based on a lump sum or financing not linked to costs. The amount will be fixed by the granting authority on the basis of the estimated project budget and a funding rate of 80%.

• Education and training
• Information Technology
• Research, Technological Development and Innovation
• Youth

• Educational Institutions
• Other Beneficiaries
• Private Bodies
• Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions
• State-owned Enterprises
• Training Centres
• Youth

In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must:

• be legal entities (public or private bodies) active in the fields of education and training, research and innovation or in the world of work. For Topic 4 ‘Adult Learning: Support to the Pact for Skills’, these bodies should also be registered members of the Pact for skills;
• 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)
• for higher education institutions (HEIs) established in Erasmus+ Programme Countries (see above): be holders of the ECHE certificate (Erasmus Charter for Higher Education).

Organisations from third countries not associated to the Programme can only be involved as associated partners (not as beneficiaries and affiliated entities).

Exception: organisations from Belarus and the Russian Federation are not eligible to participate in this action.

Consortium composition:
Proposals must be submitted by a consortium of at least 3 applicants (beneficiaries, not affiliated entities), from a minimum of 3 EU Member States or third countries associated to the Programme.

The below Topics have the following additional eligibility requirements:

• Under Topic 2 ‘Vocational Education and Training: Promote an enabling and supportive environment for vocational excellence at national and/or regional level’, at least 3 applicants (beneficiaries, not affiliated entities) must be beneficiaries (or affiliated entities) of ongoing or completed Erasmus+ CoVE projects;
• Under Topic 3 ‘Vocational Education and Training: Development of joint VET qualifications and modules’, at least 2 applicants (beneficiary, not affiliated entity) must be a VET provider offering qualifications programmes at EQF ISCED level 3-4;
• Under Topic 7 ‘Digital education: Ethical and effective use of generative Artificial Intelligence systems in education and training’ at least 1 applicant (beneficiary, not affiliated entity) must be a public education and training authority at national, regional or local level. Public education and training authorities are understood as public bodies with the mandate, responsibility, and power to define and adopt systemic policy reforms in the field of education and training at their level – being local, regional or national.

Affiliated entities and associated partners do not count towards the minimum eligibility criteria for the consortium  omposition, and can not be coordinator.

Eligible activities:
Applications will only be considered eligible if their content corresponds wholly (or at least in part) to the Topic description for which they are submitted.

Eligible activities are the ones set out in section 2 above.

Projects should take into account the results of projects supported by other EU funding programmes. The complementarities must be described in the project proposals (Part B of the Application Form).

Projects must comply with EU policy interests and priorities (such as environment, social, security, industrial and trade policy, etc.). Projects must also respect EU values and European Commission policy regarding reputational matters (e.g. activities involving capacity building, policy support, awareness raising, communication, dissemination, etc).

Financial support to third parties is not allowed.

Geographic location (target countries): Proposals must relate to activities taking place in the eligible countries.

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

For help related to this call, please contact:  EACEA-Policy-Support@ec.europa.eu

• Funding&Tenders - Topic 1: School Education: Enhancing basic skills
• Funding&Tenders - Topic 2: Vocational Education and Training: Promote an enabling and supportive environment for vocational excellence at national and/or regional level
• Funding&Tenders - Topic 3: Vocational Education and Training: Development of joint VET qualifications and modules
• Funding&Tenders - Topic 4 - Adult Learning: Support to the Pact for Skills
• Funding&Tenders - Topic 5: Adult learning: Improving career guidance to support adults’ participation in training
• Funding&Tenders - Topic 6: Digital education: Assessment of digital skills and competences
• Funding&Tenders - Topic 7: Digital education: Ethical and effective use of generative Artificial Intelligence systems in education and training’
• Funding&Tenders - Topic 8: Digital education: Innovative data collection and exchange approaches in primary, secondary education (including vocational education and training) for data-informed decision-making
• Call document