Policy Experimentation – Higher Education

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Programme Category

EU Competitive Programmes

Programme Name

Erasmus+ Programme

Programme Description

Erasmus+ is the EU’s programme to support education, training, youth and sport in Europe.
Programme Details

Identifier Code

ERASMUS-EDU-2024-POL-EXP-HIGHER-EDU

Call

Policy Experimentation – Higher Education

Summary

Proposals must address the following priority:

Priority 13: National/regional support to European Universities alliances.

Projects should address both of the below work strands:

  • Work strand 1: Creation of a supporting environment for European Universities.
  • Work strand 2: Increasing coherence of funding at national/regional level of higher education institutions part of European Universities alliances and other similar long-standing institutionalised cooperation models.

Detailed Call Description

Further efforts are needed at national and regional levels, to create an enabling environment for European Universities and similar long-standing institutionalised cooperation models.

This requires cooperation between the national and regional authorities involved, and support of the higher education sector.

Work strand 1: Creation of a supporting environment for European Universities and other similar long-standing institutionalised cooperation models, both in view of related legislation, its application and provided technical support in a particular region/country. This can for example include work in relation to the regulatory/administrative environment in a particular region/country.

Work strand 2: Increasing coherence of funding at national/regional level of higher education institutions part of European Universities alliances and other similar long-standing institutionalised cooperation models, in addition to the grants received at European level under Erasmus+, complemented by other EU instruments such as Horizon Europe. This can for example include work on national/regional funding of higher education institutions part of alliances of higher education institutions.

Call Total Budget

€1.000.000

Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan

The grant will be a lump-sum grant. The amount will be fixed by the granting authority on the basis of the estimated project budget and a funding rate of 80%.

Maximum grant amount per project: €1.000.000 – For this Topic the estimated number of projects expected to be funded is one.

 

Thematic Categories

  • Education and training

Eligibility for Participation

  • Educational Institutions
  • Local Authorities
  • State-owned Enterprises
  • Training Centres

Eligibility For Participation Notes

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.
  • 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).

Priority 13: in order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must be:

  • relevant public authorities, which higher education institutions are involved in the European Universities initiative, or other similar longstanding institutionalised cooperation models,
  • And/or bodies with a mandate from their country related to quality assurance, funding of alliances of higher education institutions, or other specific fields relevant to the success of the European Universities initiative.

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

Call Opening Date

05/12/2023

Call Closing Date

04/06/2024

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

European Education and Culture Executive Agency:
https://eacea.ec.europa.eu/erasmus-plus/contacts_en