Activities funded

Partnerships for cooperation are transnational projects in the fields of education, training, and youth. They are designed to

• develop and share innovative practices
• promote cooperation, peer learning, and exchanges of experiences

They aim to address horizontal priorities as well as field specific priorities in the areas of higher education, vocational education and training, school education, adult education, youth or sport.

Projects should be aimed at

• increasing quality in the work, activities and practices of organisations and institutions involved, opening up to new actors, not naturally included within one sector
• building capacity of organisations to work transnationally and across sectors
• addressing common needs and priorities in the fields of education, training, youth and sport
• enabling transformation and change (at individual, organisational or sectoral level), leading to improvements and new approaches, in proportion to the context of each organisation

Types of opportunity

Cooperation Partnerships

Open to a wide variety of public, private, and non-governmental organisations.

Projects enable organisations to

• increase the quality and relevance of their activities
• develop and reinforce their networks of partners
• increase their transnational capacity
• boosting the internationalisation of their activities

Duration and grant amounts

Budget and other practical details are published in the Programme Guide. 

Small-scale Partnerships

Designed to widen access to small-scale actors and individuals who are hard to reach in the fields of school education, adult education, vocational education and training, youth and sport.

Projects should

• attract and widen access for newcomers, less experienced organisations and small-scale actors to the programme, and act as a first step for organisations into cooperation at European level
• support the inclusion of target groups with fewer opportunities
• support active European citizenship and bring the European dimension to a local level

There are also opportunities for learners and staff to learn, be trained, or to teach abroad, insofar as these transnational teaching, training and learning activities contribute to the achievement of the project's objectives.

Duration and grant amounts

Budget and other practical details are published in the Programme Guide.

Types of partnership

Applications must be led by an organisation established in a Programme Country. They must involve at least three organisations for Cooperation Partnerships and at least two organisations for Small-scale Partnerships from different Programme Countries.

Organisations from Partner Countries can be involved as partners (not as applicants) in Cooperation Partnerships, if their participation brings an essential added value to the project.

Applications can include any number of organisations.

How to apply

Applications should generally be submitted to the National Agency in the Programme Country where the applicant organisation is established.

In case of projects submitted by European NGOs or in the field of sport, the applications should be submitted to the European Education and Culture Executive Agency.

Participating organisations intending to apply must be based in a Programme Country (also known as "EU Member States or countries associated to the Programme").