Oct 26, 2015

Erasmus+ 2016 call for proposals has been published

Erasmus+ - the EU programme for education, vocational training, youth and sport 2014-2020 – is intended to support the aims of the European education agendas, which promote modernisation, internationalisation and the qualitative improvement of European universities, strengthen international skills and the personal development and employability of students, enhance the attractiveness of the EU as a location for studying and science, and contribute to the long-term development of higher education in the partner countries.

Funding opportunities for universities:

The 2016 Erasmus+ Call for Proposals (EAC/A04/2015) was published in the EU's Official Journal on 20 October 2015. Please find below the funding opportunities and deadlines of the Erasmus+ Key Action 2 with relevance to university applicants.

Key Action 2 - Partnerships between organisations, institutions and initiatives for co-operation and promotion of innovation, and the exchange of good practice

Actions/Sub-programmes Deadlines

International capacity building projects in higher education (CBHE)
Capacity-building projects in the university sector are transnational cooperation projects based on multilateral partnerships between higher education institutions in the program countries and the eligible partner countries.

 10.02.2016

Knowledge alliances
Knowledge Alliances are transnational, result-oriented and structured projects between higher education institutions and businesses.

 26.02.2016

Strategic Partnerships in the area of education and vocational training
Strategic partnerships provide universities with the opportunity to support their internationalization concepts structurally, to create innovative, thematically or regionally focused networks and to define flexible actions to enhance the strength of the collaboration.

 31.03.2016

Jean-Monnet activities
Jean Monnet activities are designed to promote excellence in teaching and research in the field of European Union studies worldwide. The activities shall foster the dialogue between the academic world and policy-makers, in particular with the aim of enhancing governance of EU policies.


25.02.2016

All deadlines end at 12 o'clock (noon) Brussels time. 

Further information:

For more details on possible project proposals and the submission of applications, please refer to the 2016 version of the Erasmus+ Programme Guide and the Erasmus+ call for proposals (as well as Corrigendum).

For the action "Capacity Building in Higher Education", national and / or regional priorities need to be addressed in the project proposal. These are available under: https://eacea.ec.europa.eu/erasmus-plus/funding/capacity-building-in-field-higher-education-eaca042015_en .

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