Erasmus+ Just what you need to know!

Erasmus+ is the EU Programme in the fields of education, training, youth and sport for the period 2021-2027. Education, training, youth and sport are key areas that support citizens in their personal and professional development.

High quality, inclusive education and training, as well as informal and non-formal learning, ultimately equip young people and participants of all ages with the qualifications and skills needed for their meaningful participation in democratic society, intercultural understanding and successful transition in the labour market.

Building on the success of the programme in the period 2014-2020, Erasmus+ strengthens its efforts to increase the opportunities offered to more participants and to a wider range of organisations, focusing on its qualitative impact and contributing to more inclusive and cohesive, greener and digitally fit societies.

Key Action 1 supports the mobility of individuals (pupils, educators, administrative staff in education, etc.) training abroad.

Key Action 1: Learning Mobility of Individuals

• Mobility projects for learners and staff in higher education, vocational education and training (VET), school education, adult education and youth
• Youth participation activities
• DiscoverEU – Inclusion Action
• Mobility for sport coaches
• Virtual exchanges in higher education and youth

A grant from the Erasmus+ KA1 staff mobility programme can cover course fees, mobility travel expenses and accommodation for educators, teachers and other staff in your organization.

If your organization wants to participate in KA1 but has missed the deadline to apply for it. You can join your national consortium whose participation in Erasmus+ KA1 was already approved.

Erasmus+ KA1 focuses on:

• Professional training for educators,teachers and other staff.
• Exchange of teaching, management, tutoring practices. Teachers are encouraged to travel and teach their subject in educational organization , they help teachers from a foreign school with their daily tasks.

• improved competences, linked to their occupational profiles (teaching, training, youth work, etc.);
• broader understanding of practices, policies and systems in education, training or youth work across countries;
• increased capacity to trigger changes in terms of modernisation and international opening within their educational organisations;
• greater understanding of interconnections between formal and non-formal education, vocational training and the labour market respectively;
• better quality of their work and activities in favour of students, trainees, apprentices, pupils, adult learners and young people;
• greater understanding and responsiveness to all kinds of diversity, e.g. social, ethnic, linguistic, gender and cultural diversity, as well as diverse abilities;
• increased ability to address the needs of people with fewer opportunities;
• increased support for and promotion of mobility activities for learners;
• increased opportunities for professional and career development;
• improved foreign language and digital competences;
• increased motivation and satisfaction in their daily work.

Programme is open to any organisation in Europe which is active in the fields of education, training, youth or sport. Several Actions are also open to the participation of other players in the labour market.

Erasmus+ projects are submitted and implemented by participating organisations. If a project is selected, the applicant organisation becomes a beneficiary of an Erasmus+ grant. Beneficiaries sign a grant agreement which entitles them to receive financial support for the implementation of their project.

Individuals constitute the main target population of the Programme. The Programme reaches these individuals mainly through organisations, institutions, bodies or groups that organise such activities. The conditions of access to the Programme therefore relate to these two actors: the "participants" (individuals taking part in the Erasmus+ project activities and who may receive part of EU grant intended to cover their costs of participation) and the "participating organisations" 1 .(including informal groups of young people involved in an Erasmus+ project, as either applicants or partners and self-employed persons). For both participants and participating organisations, the conditions for participation depend on the country in which they are based.