If you’ve ever tried to put together an Erasmus+ project, you know the partner search is often the hardest part. You have a strong idea, you know which Key Action fits, but finding the right organisations abroad — ones that are actually active, reliable, and looking for the same kind of collaboration — can take […]
The Erasmus+ partnership agreement is the internal legal document that governs how a consortium operates during project implementation. It is not submitted to the National Agency — but it is binding between the coordinator and each partner, and it is the document you will rely on if anything goes wrong: a partner misses a deadline,
Most Erasmus+ partner search advice stops at a list of platforms. Post a call on EPALE, try the School Education Gateway, check the SALTO database. This is fine as a starting point — but it is not a strategy. It is a passive approach that puts you in a queue with hundreds of other coordinators
The consortium is the foundation of any Erasmus+ project. Get the composition right and you have a credible, deliverable project. Get it wrong — wrong number of partners, wrong country mix, wrong organisational types, or roles that do not match the work plan — and you risk both rejection at the eligibility stage and a
Finding the right Erasmus+ partners is one of the most decisive factors in whether a project gets funded — and one of the most underestimated. Many applicants treat partner search as an afterthought: they write the project idea first and then look for organisations willing to sign a partnership agreement. This is the wrong order,
A strong Erasmus+ project is never built by one organisation alone. At the heart of every successful application lies a well-structured, meaningful partnership that adds real European value and demonstrates the ability to cooperate across borders. Despite this, many Erasmus+ applications receive low scores not because the idea is weak, but because the partnership is
