Culture and Creativity
The Alliances strengthen Europe’s innovation capacity by boosting innovation through cooperation and flow of knowledge among higher education, vocational education and training (both initial and continuous), and more broadly involving a socio-economic context, including research.
Programme guide available here.
Teacher Academies support European partnerships of teacher education and training providers, public authorities and stakeholders.
The Academies develop a European and international outlook in teacher education.
They can be innovative collaborations to develop and test initial teacher education and continuous professional development strategies. Academies can support the formation of networks and communities of practice, provide learning opportunities to teachers, support innovation, and inform the development of national and European teacher education policies.
This action supports the establishment and development of European platforms of Centres of Vocational Excellence, contributing to regional development, innovation, and smart specialisation strategies, as well as to international collaborative platforms.
The platforms are open for the involvement of countries with well-developed vocational excellence systems, as well as those in the process of developing similar approaches.
The platforms are aimed at exploring the full potential of VET institutions to play a proactive role in support of growth and innovation.
These are international cooperation partnerships between organisations active in the field of youth in EU Member States, third countries associated to the programme, and third countries not associated to the programme.
Projects support the international exchanges, cooperation and policy dialogue in the field of youth and non-formal learning, to enhance the sustainable socio-economic development and well-being of young people.
They will:
• Provide young people with opportunities to engage with, and learn to participate in civic society.
Erasmus Mundus Joint Masters (EMJM) are high-level, integrated transnational study programmes at masters level. They enhance the attractiveness and excellence of European higher education in the world and attract talent to Europe.
Small-scale Partnerships aim to widen access to the Erasmus+ programme for small-scale actors and individuals who are hard to reach in the fields of school education, adult education, vocational education and training and youth.
Grants are for low levels of finance, for projects of short duration.
There are simple administrative requirements Grants are particularly relevant for newcomers to Erasmus+, particularly for organisations with smaller organisational capacity.
Cooperation Partnerships allow organisations to
Projects aim to develop innovative practices, and implement joint initiatives promoting cooperation, along with peer learning and exchanges of experience at the European level.
Virtual exchanges are online people-to-people activities.
They promote intercultural dialogue and soft skills development amongst individuals from third countries not associated to the programme, EU Member States or third countries associated to the programme.
They take place in small groups and are always moderated by a trained facilitator.
Programme guide available here.
Projects implement non-formal learning activities that promote youth participation in Europe's democratic life.
Projects will aim to:
Volunteering Teams in high priority areas are large scale, high impact projects. They involve young people from at least two different countries and will be short-term interventions that address common European challenges in policy areas defined each year at the EU level.
Applications can:
