By Nicoleta Susanu

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Steps to apply for this call

Steps to register your organization

Objectives of the call

Deadlines

Tips to write a good proposal

Tips to find a good partner

Useful links

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1. Download all the documents:Call for proposal 2015 — EAC/A04/2014 in English and your

language where available

Erasmus +programme guide 2015

ECAS User Manual

User's Guide of the Unique Registration Facility (URF) and Participant Portal for Education, Audio-visual, Culture, Citizenship and Volunteering

2015 Erasmus+ Indicative Funding and Timetable

ERASMUS+Technical guidelines for completing application e-Forms

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

ERASMUS+ Guide for Experts on Quality Assessment

Applicants' Guidelines and User Guides

Annexes to be completed and uploaded with the eForm

Detailed Project Description

Detailed budget tables and Workplan/Workpackages

summary chart

Declaration on honour for Grants ≤ EUR 60.000

Declaration on honour for Grants > EUR 60.000

Distance calculator

Instructions for completing the Application Package

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European Commission

Authentication System

(ECAS) is the service

allowing users to access most

of the digital systems

developed or used by the

European Institutions.

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The Participant Identification Code (PIC) is a 9 digits unique identifier for every validated legal entity. Participants will not have to submit their legal and financial information (and supporting documents) each time they submit a proposal or negotiate a grant agreement, but just their PIC.

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If your organisation does not have a PIC number, then

you should create an account in the Participant Portal in

order to be able to register your organisation in the

Unique Registration Facility (URF). A PIC is provided

at the end of the registration process and can be then

used for proposal submission.

See the User's Guide of the Unique Registration

Facility (URF) and Participant Portal for Education,

Audio-visual, Culture, Citizenship and Volunteering

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You can search for the PIC

code at any time by

clicking the Search button

in the Organisation

Register page on the

Education Participant

Portal.

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The Erasmus+ Programme shall contribute to the achievement of:

◦ the objectives of the Europe 2020 Strategy, including the headline

education target

◦ the objectives of the strategic framework for European cooperation in

education and training (ET 2020), including the corresponding

benchmarks;

◦ the sustainable development of Partner Countries in the field of higher

education;

◦ the overall objectives of the renewed framework for European cooperation

in the youth field (2010-2018);

◦ the objective of developing the European dimension in sport, in particular

grassroots sport, in line with the EU work plan for sport;

◦ the promotion of European values in accordance with Article 2 of the

Treaty on the European Union

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KEY ACTION 1 –

MOBILITY OF

INDIVIDUALS

KEY ACTION 2 –

COOPERATION FOR

INNOVATION AND

THE EXCHANGE OF

GOOD PRACTICES

KEY ACTION 3 –

SUPPORT FOR

POLICY REFORM

JEAN MONNET ACTIVITIES

SPORT

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Mobility of learners and staff: opportunities for students,

trainees, young people and volunteers, as well as for professors,

teachers, trainers, youth workers, staff of education institutions

and civil society organisations to undertake a learning and/or

professional experience in another country;

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Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degrees: high-level integrated

international study programmes delivered by consortia of higher

education institutions that award full degree scholarships to the

best master students worldwide;

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Erasmus+ Master Degree Loans: higher education students

from Programme Countries can get a loan backed up by the

Programme to go abroad for a full Master Degree. Students

should address themselves to national banks or student loan

agencies.

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Transnational Strategic Partnerships aimed to develop

initiatives addressing one or more fields of education training

and youth and promote innovation, exchange of experience and

know-how between different types of organisations involved in

education, training and youth or in other relevant fields. Certain

mobility activities are supported in so far as they contribute to

the objectives of the project;

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Knowledge Alliances between higher education institutions and

enterprises which aim to foster innovation, entrepreneurship,

creativity, employability, knowledge exchange and/or

multidisciplinary teaching and learning;

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Sector Skills Alliances supporting the design and delivery of

joint vocational training curricula, programmes and teaching and

training methodologies, drawing on evidence of trends in a

specific economic sector and skills needed in order to perform in

one or more professional fields;

Capacity Building projects supporting cooperation with

Partner Countries in the fields of higher education and youth.

Capacity Building projects aim to support

organisations/institutions and systems in their modernisation and

internationalisation process.

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IT support platforms, such as eTwinning, the European Platform

for Adult Learning (EPALE) and the European Youth Portal,

offering virtual collaboration spaces, databases of opportunities,

communities of practice and other online services for teachers,

trainers and practitioners in the field of school and adult education

as well as for young people, volunteers and youth workers across

Europe and beyond.

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Knowledge in the fields of education, training and youth for

evidence-based policy making and monitoring in the

framework of Europe 2020, in particular: o country-specific

and thematic analysis, including through cooperation with

academic networks o peer learning and peer reviews through the

Open Methods of Coordination in education, training and youth;

Initiatives for policy innovation to stimulate innovative policy

development among stakeholders and to enable public

authorities to test the effectiveness of innovative policies

through field trials based on sound evaluation methodologies;

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Support to European policy tools to facilitate

transparency and recognition of skills and qualifications,

as well as the transfer of credits, to foster quality

assurance, support validation of non-formal and informal

learning, skills management and guidance.

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Cooperation with international organisations with highly

recognised expertise and analytical capacity (such as the OECD

and the Council of Europe), to strengthen the impact and added

value of policies in the fields of education, training and youth;

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Stakeholder dialogue, policy and Programme promotion with

public authorities, providers and stakeholders in the fields of

education, training and youth are necessary for raising

awareness about Europe 2020, Education and Training 2020, the

European Youth Strategy and other European sector-specific

policy agendas, as well as the external dimension of EU

education, training and youth policies.

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Academic Modules, Chairs, Centres of Excellence in order to

deepen teaching in European integration studies embodied in an

official curriculum of a higher education institution, as well as to

conduct, monitor and supervise research on EU content, also for

other educational levels such as teacher training and compulsory

education

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Policy debate with academic world, supported through:

◦ Networks to enhance cooperation between different

universities throughout Europe and around the world, foster

cooperation and create a high knowledge exchange platform

with public actors and the Commission services on highly

relevant EU subjects;

◦ Projects for innovation and cross-fertilisation and spread of

EU content aimed to promote discussion, reflection on EU

issues and to enhance knowledge about the EU and its

processes;

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Support to institutions and associations, to organise and

carry out statutory activities of associations dealing with

EU studies and EU issues, and to publicize EU facts

among a wider public enhancing active European

citizenship. Jean Monnet Activities also provide

operating grants to designated institutions which pursue

an aim of European interest;

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Studies and conferences with the purpose of providing

policy-makers with new insights and concrete suggestion

via critical independent academic views, and to reflect on

current issues of the EU.

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Collaborative Partnerships, aimed at promoting the integrity

of Sport (anti-doping, fight against match fixing, protection of

minors), supporting innovative approaches to implement EU

principles on good governance in sport, EU strategies in the

area of social inclusion and equal opportunities, encouraging

participation in sport and physical activity (supporting the

implementation of EU Physical Activity Guidelines,

volunteering, employment in sport as well as education and

training in sport), and supporting the implementation of the EU

guidelines on dual careers of athletes

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Not-for-profit European sport events, granting individual

organisations in charge of the preparation, organisation and

follow-up to a given event. The activities involved will include

the organisation of training activities for athletes and volunteers

in the run-up to the event, opening and closing ceremonies,

competitions, side-activities to the sporting event (conferences,

seminars), as well as the implementation of legacy activities,

such as evaluations or follow-up activities;

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Strengthening of the evidence base for policy making through

studies; data gathering, surveys; networks; conferences and

seminars which spread good practices from Programme

Countries and sport organisations and reinforce networks at EU

level so that national members of those networks benefit from

synergies and exchanges with their partners;

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Dialogue with relevant European stakeholders, being mainly the

annual EU Sport Forum and support to Sport Presidency events

organised by the EU Member States holding the Presidency of

the EU.

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Key Action/ Activities

Action Indicative total amount

allocated (EUR)

Indicative number of selected projects

Deadline for submittingapplications

Learning Mobility of Individuals

Large-scale EVS Events

300,000 3 03/04/2015

Learning Mobility of Individuals

Joint Master Degrees

34,650,000 18 04/03/2015

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Key Action/

Activities

Action Indicative

total amount

allocated

(EUR)

Indicative

number of

selected

projects

Deadline for

submitting

applications

Cooperation

for

Innovation

and

exchanges of

Good

Practices

Knowledge

Alliances

7,650,939 10 26/02/2015

Sector Skills

Alliances

7,650,939 10 26/02/2015

Capacity

building in

higher

education

120,780,000 124 10/02/2015

Capacity

building in

youth

9,056,934 110 3/04/2015

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Key

Action/

Activities

Action Indicative

total amount

allocated

(EUR)

Indicative

number of

selected

projects

Deadline for

submitting

applications

Jean

Monnet

Activities

Jean Monnet

Chairs

5,666,414 136 26/02/2015 Jean Monnet

Modules

Jean Monnet

Centres of

Excellence

Jean Monnet

Projects 4,280,000 63 26/02/2015

Jean Monnet

Networks

Support to

institutions and

associations

1,500,000 12 26/02/2015

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Key Action/

Activities

Action Indicative

total amount

allocated

(EUR)

Indicative

number of

selected

projects

Deadline for

submitting

applications

Sport

Collaborative

partnerships

1,600,000 5 22/01/2015

13,178,938 45 14/05/2015

Not-for-profit

European sport

events

600,000 3 22/01/2015

1,400,000 3 14/05/2016

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Read well all the documents related to the call inEnglish version and if availabe in your own language

Check the template of the Application package andthe guideline to fulfil them before starting to write theproject proposal

Analize if your organization is elegible and haveexperience in the field interested to apply

Do you have the right staff to implement the project incase of successful proposal?

Don’t write your proposal with one month before thedeadline

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Draft a project idea by using the Logical framework

tool

Individuate the partners you need taking into

consideration the objectives of the projects and their

experience

When you are looking for a partner send the project

idea draft together with a brief description of your

organization

Ask to your partners to cooperate when you write the

project proposal

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Collect all the documents from partners in advance

oEuropass CV staff,

oMandate Letter,

o the annual activity report,

o the documents related to the financial capacity,

omemorandum of understanding,

o the financial identification form,

o articles of association (statute of entity),

o a copy of the certificate of liability to VAT,

o a copy of the official document

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Lifelong learning project partner search portal

EU Research Partners Cordis portal

National agencies for Erasmus+ partner serach tool

Erasmus + Dissemination Platform

Linkedin groups

◦ EU Projects Partner Search

◦ ERASMUS PLUS PARTNER FINDING

◦ ERASMUS+ - EU Projects Partner Search

◦ ERASMUS PLUS (2014-2020)

◦ Erasmus+ : Cooperation between Education and Training

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Facebook groups

o Eu funding opportunities and project management tips

o ERASMUS+ For EU Projects - Partner Finding +

Dissemination Group

o Erasmus+: Sport

o Erasmus+ Partner/Project Search Database

o ERASMUS+ For YOUTH Projects - Partner Finding +

Dissemination Group

o Erasmul + for all

o https://www.facebook.com/umbriautc

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