The EU’s Erasmus Plus programme, invites applications for European forward-looking cooperation projects in education and training, and youth. These will provide in-depth knowledge on target groups, learning, teaching, training or youth work situations and effective methodologies and tools that help policies to develop, as well as conclusions relevant for policy makers in education, training and youth at all levels. The call supports projects in two strands: education and training field, and youth field.

Public or private organisations in education, training and youth or other socioeconomic sectors, or organisations carrying out cross-sector activities are eligible to apply. Applicants should be legal entities based in either a EU member state or in Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Turkey, or Macedonia.

The minimum partnership requirement for this call is three organisations representing three eligible countries.

The total budget available for the co-financing of projects under the present call is €17 million; €15m for the education and training strand, and €2m for the youth strand. The maximum grant per project is €500,000.

Financial contribution from the EU cannot exceed 75 per cent of the total eligible project costs.

Activities must start between 1 November 2015 and 1 January 2016, and the project duration must be between 24 and 36 months.

Closing date 24th February 2015

For further information see

http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=uriserv:OJ.C_.2014.425.01.0004.01.ENG