The European Commission will be launching the first call for the new Erasmus+ scheme Capacity Building Projects in Higher Education in autumn.
The Capacity Building Projects in Higher Education scheme replaces the former TEMPUS programme. Staffordshire University has considerable success with this scheme and acted as partner and lead organisations on projects.
Capacity-building projects are transnational cooperation projects, based on multilateral partnerships, primarily between higher education institutions from Programme and eligible Partner Countries.
The partner countries from outside the EU can include:
- the EU’s neighbouring countries,
- Russia,
- EU candidate and potential candidate countries,
- Latin America,
- Asia,
- Africa-Caribbean-Pacific countries.
Projects will have to involve at least three universities from three different Programme countries and two universities per Partner country involved.
There are two strands to this scheme, joint projects and structural projects. The joint projects will be of most interest to the university.
Joint projects operate at micro level and target higher education institutions in the eligible Partner Countries specifically.
They aim to modernise and reform higher education institutions through activities such as:
- Developing new curricula or improving existing ones;
- Improving governance and management systems;
- Building relationships between higher education institutions and relevant socio-economic actors.
Time from the call opening to the deadline is often tight. There is not much chance to find partners and write the bid. This is a good time to start thinking about whether you are interested in applying and talking to potential partners to collaborate with.
The grant is intended to support the following costs related to the implementation of the project:
- Staff costs
- Travel costs and costs of stay
- Equipment costs
- Other direct and indirect costs.
Please could anyone interested in applying let the External Projects Team know so that we can start supporting you with identifying partners? externalprojects@staffs.ac.uk
As the calls are not launched yet there is no additional information on the programme. If you want to keep up to date with what is happening we expect details to be launched on the Erasmus+ website here:
