Winning an Erasmus+ grant feels like the finish line. Then the kick-off call ends and the real work starts: several partners, a dozen activities, a budget that has to match what you promised, and a final report that is judged on evidence rather than good intentions. Most coordinators handle this with a shared spreadsheet, a
Erasmus+ is easy to describe in general terms — the EU’s programme for education, training, youth and sport. It’s harder to grasp in scale. This post pulls together the programme’s own official statistics, current as of September 2026, to show what Erasmus+ actually looks like in numbers: how big it is, how fast it’s grown,
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
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
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
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
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
Erasmus+ Key Action 2 is the cooperation strand of the programme — the funding stream that supports transnational partnerships between organisations to develop innovative practices, produce transferable outputs and drive systemic change in education, training and youth work. Where KA1 sends individuals abroad to learn, KA2 brings organisations together to create something that did not
Most Erasmus+ applications are not rejected because of poor writing or weak budgets. They are rejected because the project idea itself is not strong enough — it is too vague, too generic, not clearly grounded in a real need, or not differentiated from the thousands of similar proposals submitted in the same call. A winning
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,
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,
Budget planning is where many otherwise strong Erasmus+ proposals fall apart. Applicants either under-budget key activities — making the project look underfunded and unrealistic — or over-request on vague line items that evaluators cannot justify. Both outcomes damage your score on financial capacity and project design. This guide walks you through how Erasmus+ budgets actually
The dissemination plan is one of the most consistently underwritten sections in Erasmus+ proposals. Most applicants treat it as an afterthought — a short paragraph mentioning a project website, a few social media posts, and a final conference. Evaluators see this in almost every application they read, and it scores accordingly. A strong dissemination plan
Writing an Erasmus+ proposal for the first time can feel overwhelming. The application form is long, the evaluation criteria are specific, and the competition is tougher than ever. But the good news is that there is a clear, repeatable process behind every successful proposal — and once you understand it, the form becomes far more
