1. SMART AND INCLUSIVE GROWTH
ERASMUS PLUS
SMART AND INCLUSIVE GROWTH

2. OBJECTIVES
The Programme is a new action for EU in the field of Education, Training, Youth and Sport.
The Programme covers education at all levels, in a lifelong learning perspective, in particular Higher education, Vocational Education and Training and Adult Learning, School Education and Youth.
Erasmus Plus replace seven existing programmes with one: it brings together the existing Lifelong Learning Programme (Erasmus, Leonardo da Vinci, Comenius and Grundtvig), Youth in Action, and five international cooperation programmes (Erasmus Mundus, Tempus, Alfa, Edulink and the programme for cooperation with industrialised countries)

3. PROGRAMME STRUCTURE

4. OBJECTIVES
To support young people gain more and better skills by studying & training abroad.
To enhance teaching quality in the EU and beyond.
To support Member States and partner countries in modernising their education and vocational training systems.
To promote youth participation in society.
To support teaching and research on European integration.
To support European grass-roots sport.

5. OBJECTIVES Overall budget
€16 billion (includes €1.8 billion for international cooperation)
Overall mobility opportunities
4 million people
Higher education
2.2 million students
Staff mobility
1 million teachers, trainers, youth workers and other staff
Vocational education and training
students
Volunteer and youth exchange
young people
Master's degree loan guarantee
students
International students
students
Joint degree grants
students
Strategic Partnerships
More than linking together institutions
Knowledge Alliances
200 set up by 2000 higher education institutions and businesses
Sectoral Skills Alliances
200 set up by 2000 education and training providers and businesses

6. PROGRAMME STRUCTURE Sub-programmes
STRAND: Education, training and youth:
Learning mobility of individuals
Cooperation for innovation and good practices
Support for policy reform
Jean Monnet Initiative
STRAND: Sport

7. Learning mobility of individuals
ACTIVITIES Learning mobility of individuals
Key action 1:
Learning mobility of individuals
Key action 1:
What does it mean for HE?
Staff: teachers, trainers, school
leaders and youth workers
Students: HE students (including
joint/double degrees) and VET
Students
Masters Students: Erasmus Masters
via a new loan guarantee
mechanism
Youth mobility: volunteering and
youth exchanges
International dimension: HE mobility for EU and non-EU beneficiaries
International opening of Erasmus: more mobility of students and staff between EU – non EU in both directions (credit mobility through NA)
Joint Master courses of high quality offered by consortium of EU/non EU universities to attract the very best students worldwide (degree mobility centralised)
Student Loan guarantee to boost degree mobility within Europe 7

8. Co-operation for innovation
ACTIVITIES Cooperation for innovation and good practices
Key action 2:
Co-operation for innovation
and good practices
Key action 2:
What does it mean for HE?
Strategic partnerships between
education institutions (or between
youth organisations) and/or relevant
actors
‘Knowledge Alliances’: Large-scale
partnerships between higher education
/ training institutions and businesses
- ‘Sector Skills Alliances’
IT support platforms, including e-
Twinning
International dimension: Capacity building in third countries, focus on Neighbourhood countries
Erasmus Strategic Partnerships: more intense cooperation between institutions.
Knowlegde Alliances: structure partnerships between HEI and businesses
3. Specific support with neighbourhood countries: More cooperation between universities for capacity building and more student and staff mobility.
4. Rest of the world: More cooperation between universities in the EU and rest of the world for capacity building. 8

9. ACTIVITIES Support for policy reform Support for policy reform
Key action 3:
Support for policy reform
Key action 3:
What does it mean for HE?
Support to Open Method of
Coordination (ET 2020, EU youth
strategy) and EU 2020
EU transparency tools:
valorisation and implementation
Policy dialogue with stakeholders,
International dimension: Policy dialogue with third countries and international organisations
Support the OMC, Higher Education Modernisation Agenda, Bologna Process:.
Support development and implemenation of EU transparancy tools and EU wide networks
3. Support Policy Dialogue with third countries 9

10. ACTIVITIES Updated priorities
31/03/2017
ACTIVITIES Updated priorities
Multilateral projects
Cooperation between HE and enterprises
Social dimension in higher education
Develop mobility strategies and remove barriers to mobility
Support to the modernisation of higher education agenda
Fostering excellence and innovation
Academic Networks 10
Accompanying Measures

11. ACTIVITIES Jean Monnet Initiative
The Jean Monnet activities aim is to promote teaching and research on European integration world-wide among specialist academics, learners and citizens, notably through the creation of Jean Monnet Chairs and other academic activities, as well as by providing aid for other knowledge-building activities at higher education institutions; to support the activities of academic institutions or associations active in the field of European integration studies and support a Jean Monnet label for excellence.
In the light of its specific efforts to promote excellence in education and research on EU integration, the Jean Monnet Initiative will continue as a separate activity within the Programme and will share its delivery mechanisms.

12. ACTIVITIES Jean Monnet Initiative
Supported activities
Teaching and research on European integration world-wide among specialist academics, learners and citizens, notably through the creation of Jean Monnet Chairs and other academic activities, as well as by providing aid for other knowledge-building activities at higher education institutions;
Activities of academic institutions or associations active in the field of European integration studies and support a Jean Monnet label for excellence.
Support the following European academic institutions pursuing an aim of European interest;
the European University Institute of Florence;
the College of Europe
Policy debate and exchanges between the academic world and policy-makers on Union policy priorities

13. ACTIVITIES Sport
The EU cooperation in the field of Sport will be treated as a separate activity within the Programme. The Programme will focus on: strengthening good governance and the knowledge base for sport in the EU; promoting health-enhancing physical activity; exploiting the potential of sport to foster social inclusion, promoting dual careers through education and training of athletes; and tackling transnational threats such as doping match fixing, violence, racism and intolerance.
 Supported activities
transnational collaborative projects;
non-commercial European sporting events of major importance;
strengthening of the evidence base for policy making in the field of sport;
capacity building in sport;
dialogue with relevant European stakeholders.

14. PARTICIPATION ELIGIBILE COUNTRIES
The Programme is open to the participation of the following countries
the Member States;
the acceding countries, candidate countries and potential candidates benefiting from a pre-accession strategy, in accordance with the general principles and general terms and conditions for the participation of those countries in Union programmes established in the respective Framework Agreements, Association Council Decisions or similar agreements.
Required in country structures
For full participation in the programme: establishment of a National Agencies at state level
Restricted participation (no need for National Agency): IT Platforms, eTwinning, higher education and youth mobility to/from EU

15. PARTICIPATION TARGET GROUPS
For all STRANDS: any public and private body active in the areas of education, training, youth and grassroots sport
For Sport STRAND: public bodies or civil society organisations active in the area of grassroots sport.
APPLICATION PROCEDURE
Centralised direct management by the Commission
Centralised indirect management with the delegation of implementation tasks to:
national executive agencies
national public-sector bodies/bodies with public-service mission
Joint management with international organisations
Applications are done through calls of proposals.
The funding will be reflected in the multiannual indicative programming, in line with the identified needs and priorities of the countries concerned.
The Commission may launch joint calls with third countries or their organisations and agencies to jointly fund projects. Projects may be evaluated and selected through joint evaluation and selection procedures to be agreed upon by the funding agencies involved

16. PARTICIPATION Where to find information at EU-level
Commission Communication – ‘Erasmus for All’:
Europe 2020:
Horizon 2020:
Agenda for the Modernisation of Europe’s higher education institutions:
Leuven Communiqué:
Bucharest Communiqué:
Mobility strategy for the EHEA:
Bologna Process Implementation report (2012):

17. PARTICIPATION Where to find information at EU-level