Erasmus +

26.51 billion

Education and training, internships, youth exchanges, socio-educational activities and sports

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Potential beneficiaries

Universities, educational and training institutions, businesses, institutions and organizations active in vocational training, organizations active in training, sports and youth. Youth, students, apprentices, adults, athletes, their teachers and educators, researchers and academics.

Description and objectives

Erasmus+ is the EU program supporting education, training, youth and sports. Promotes learning mobility (formal, nonformal and informal) of individuals and groups, cooperation, quality, inclusion, equity, excellence, creativity and innovation in training, education, active youth participation and sports.

The overall objective of Erasmus+ is to support, through lifelong learning, the educational, professional and personal development of people in education, training, youth and sport, in Europe and beyond.

Through its action, Erasmus+ aims to contribute to sustainable growth, employment and quality jobs, social cohesion, innovation, a strengthened European identity and more active European citizenship.

It is one of the EU’s largest and best known programs, carrying with it a history of youth participation and Third Sector involvement.

Types of actions and projects

Erasmus+ carries out a wide range of cooperation, capacity building, student exchange, networking and organization support to reforms in education, training, youth and sports.

More specifically, Erasmus+ pursues the following specific objectives in three main thematic areas:

• Education and training.Learning mobility of individuals and groups, cooperation, quality, inclusion and equity, excellence, creativity and innovation at the level of organizations and policies in education and training;
• Youth.Mobility for non-formal and informal learning and active youth participation, and cooperation, quality, inclusion, creativity and innovation at the level of organizations and policies in the youth field;
• Sports.Learning mobility of sports personnel and promotion of cooperation, quality, inclusion, creativity and innovation of sports organizations and policies.

The objectives of the program are pursued through the following key actions (also known as Key Actions or KAs), which cut across the three thematic areas:

• Key Action 1: Learning Mobility;
• Key Action 2: Cooperation between organizations and institutions;
• Key Action 3: Support for policy development and cooperation.

Erasmus+ also includes Jean Monnet Actions, which support teaching, learning, research and debates on European integration issues.

Program activities are partly implemented with the support of Erasmus+ national agencies.

Highlights

Erasmus+ 2021-2027 will be more inclusive, accessible and simple, more digital and “greener,” more forward-looking and more international than its previous edition. In particular, it will offer a wider range of partnerships (small-scale partnerships with simplified procedures), deeper and more innovative partnerships (large-scale pilot projects); and provide for greater openness to the non-EU world in all areas (e.g., Erasmus Mundus, European Youth Together).

Erasums+ will provide enhanced opportunities for transnational learning mobility and cooperation, including through the European Universities Initiative and new opportunities for schoolchildren, adult learning and sports staff. International mobility will incorporate a “blended approach” in higher education (online learning + group work + short periods abroad) and will include increased allocation for vocational training (“ErasmusPro”).

The program will provide more opportunities and actions for digital learning and continue the support offered to beneficiaries through support networks and online platforms. It will pay more attention to strategic areas for Europe’s knowledge creation and sustainable growth by targeting mobility and cooperation projects in strategic areas (climate change, clean energy, digitalization, artificial intelligence, biosciences, etc.) thus contributing to the development of skills crucial to societal challenges.