Job shadowing shows up across almost every corner of Erasmus+, but it means something slightly different depending on which sector you’re in. A VET trainer job shadowing a peer abroad follows different rules, funding rates and durations than a youth worker doing the same thing, or a school teacher, or a grassroots sport coach. That
The Erasmus+ programme you are applying under today runs through 2027. Discussions about what comes after it — the next Erasmus+ programme, covering 2028 to 2034 — are already underway, tied to the European Union’s next long-term budget, known as the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF). The European Commission has put forward an initial proposal for
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+ Results Platform is the European Commission’s public database of all Erasmus+ funded projects and their outputs. It is directly accessible to anyone — practitioners, policymakers, researchers and organisations looking for potential partners — and it is where your project’s results must be published as a grant condition for KA220 and most KA2 actions.
EPALE — the Electronic Platform for Adult Learning in Europe — is one of the most visited professional communities in European education and training. It hosts tens of thousands of practitioners, policymakers and educators from across all 33 Erasmus+ programme countries. For Erasmus+ projects in the fields of adult education, vocational training and school education,
Dissemination is not optional in Erasmus+. It is a contractual obligation — one that appears in your grant agreement from the moment you sign it, and one whose non-compliance can lead to your grant being reduced. Yet most funded organisations approach dissemination as an afterthought — something to think about in the final months of
The Erasmus+ final report is the last significant deliverable of your project — and one of the most important. Get it right and you secure your balance payment, close your grant agreement cleanly and build credibility for future applications. Get it wrong — or submit it late — and your grant can be reduced, you
Thousands of Greek schools participate in Erasmus+ every year — sending teachers abroad for professional development, hosting colleagues from partner schools, organising pupil exchanges and developing cooperation projects with schools across Europe. Yet many Greek school coordinators still find the programme confusing, particularly when it comes to choosing the right action, understanding what they can
Receiving an Erasmus+ rejection is disappointing. But the rejection comes with something valuable — a Quality Assessment report that tells you exactly how your application was scored, criterion by criterion, and why each section received the score it did. Most organisations file the rejection email and do not look at the Quality Assessment report again.
The Erasmus Accreditation is one of the most valuable things an Erasmus+ organisation can hold. Once accredited, you receive annual funding for mobility activities without reapplying each year — no full application, no competitive evaluation, no uncertainty. You submit a simplified annual funding request and the grant follows. The gateway to that annual funding is
Between 60% and 75% of Erasmus+ KA2 applications do not receive funding in any given call. Most of the organisations behind those applications had a genuine project idea that could have made a real difference. The idea was not the problem. Erasmus+ applications fail at three distinct points — before evaluation begins, at the minimum
The 2026 Erasmus+ deadline is approaching. You have written your application. Before you submit, there is a final set of checks that every experienced Erasmus+ coordinator runs through — and that every first-time applicant should know about. Applications are rejected for reasons that have nothing to do with the quality of the project idea: a
Thousands of Greek schools participate in Erasmus+ every year — sending teachers abroad for professional development, hosting colleagues from partner schools, organising pupil exchanges and developing cooperation projects with schools across Europe. Yet many Greek school coordinators still find the programme confusing, particularly when it comes to choosing the right action, understanding what they can
Greece has one of the most active civil society sectors in Southern Europe — NGOs, youth organisations, cultural associations and non-profit bodies working across education, youth, social inclusion, environment and community development. Many of these organisations are eligible for Erasmus+ funding but do not know where to start, which actions are open to them, or
If you have ever tried to calculate Erasmus+ travel costs, you have probably started with the official EC Distance Calculator. You enter a city of origin, a destination city, and it gives you a distance band. Then you stop and wonder: what does that band actually mean in euros? The official tool tells you the
The lump sum grant model is one of the most misunderstood aspects of the Erasmus+ programme — both by first-time applicants who assume it means they will receive a fixed amount with no strings attached, and by more experienced organisations who do not fully understand how the lump sum interacts with project delivery, evidence requirements
One of the most common causes of queries, delayed balance payments and partial grant recoveries in Erasmus+ projects is not poor project management — it is a misunderstanding of what the programme will and will not fund. Erasmus+ has specific, clearly defined budget rules that vary by Key Action. Knowing these rules before you build
Erasmus+ priorities are not optional extras to mention at the end of your application. They are a core part of the Relevance criterion, and evaluators are explicitly instructed to assess whether projects genuinely integrate the programme’s priorities or merely reference them in passing. This standard hasn’t shifted dramatically year to year — genuine integration has
The Erasmus+ Programme Guide 2026 (Version 1) was published on 12 November 2025 as part of the 2026 Call for Proposals. Plenty of “what’s new in 2026” content circulates online, but a lot of it overstates the changes — presenting language that has existed unchanged for years as if it were freshly introduced. This guide
Before any Erasmus+ application can be submitted — whether you are the coordinator or a partner organisation — every organisation in the consortium must have a valid Organisation ID, known as an OID. No OID means no application. An organisation without a validated OID cannot be added to a project, and an application submitted with
Erasmus+ is one of the most inclusive funding programmes in Europe — open to schools, universities, NGOs, youth organisations, VET providers, adult education centres, local authorities and social enterprises across 33 countries. But “open to many” does not mean “open to all,” and the programme’s structure — five distinct sectors, multiple Key Actions and specific
Erasmus+ eligibility is one of the most misunderstood aspects of the programme. Many organisations assume they qualify — because they are a registered non-profit, because they work in education, or because a colleague told them Erasmus+ is “open to everyone” — without ever checking the specific requirements for the Key Action they want to apply
Every funded Erasmus+ project started with a first application. And every first-time applicant faces the same challenge: a programme that is genuinely accessible but not immediately intuitive, with multiple Key Actions, sector-specific rules, platform requirements and evaluation criteria that can make the whole process feel more complicated than it needs to be. The good news
Receiving a rejection from your National Agency is disappointing — but the quality assessment feedback report that accompanies it is one of the most valuable documents an Erasmus+ applicant can receive. It tells you exactly where your application fell short, how evaluators scored each criterion and — if you read it correctly — precisely what
Reporting is where an Erasmus+ project either confirms its credibility or raises questions the coordinator did not anticipate. The final report determines whether the balance payment is released — and it is judged not on how well the project went, but on how clearly and consistently that can be demonstrated with evidence. Most reporting problems
Winning an Erasmus+ grant is one challenge. Delivering the project well enough to receive the final payment is another. Most organisations that struggle during implementation do not fail because of a lack of effort — they fail because of a lack of structure. Unclear partner roles, missed internal deadlines, financial records that do not match
Most of the 2026 Erasmus+ deadlines have already passed at the time of writing. But two important windows are still open: the Erasmus Accreditation deadline (29 September) and the second round for KA1 Youth actions — youth exchanges, youth worker mobility and youth participation activities (1 October). This guide leads with what’s still actionable, then
Erasmus+ youth exchanges are one of the most widely used and most impactful mobility activities in the programme. They bring together groups of young people from different countries for a short-term international experience — typically 5 to 21 days — focused on a shared theme, non-formal learning and intercultural dialogue. For youth organisations, youth centres
Erasmus+ KA220 — Cooperation Partnerships — is the most ambitious and most impactful cooperation action in the Erasmus+ programme. It funds transnational partnerships between three or more organisations to develop substantial outputs, drive systemic innovation and contribute measurably to the modernisation of education, training and youth work across Europe. KA220 is also the most demanding
Erasmus+ KA210 — Small-Scale Partnerships — is the most accessible cooperation action in the Erasmus+ programme. It was introduced in the 2021–2027 programme generation specifically to open European cooperation to organisations that had previously found KA220 too complex, too demanding or too large for their needs. Smaller NGOs, community organisations, schools with limited administrative capacity
