On March 25, the new Erasmus+ Programme 2021-2027 together with the Call for Proposals 2021 were launched.
The programme’s budget is €26.2 billion, compared with €14.7 billion for 2014-2020. This will be complemented by about €2.2 billion from the EU’s external instruments.
Therefore the new and revamped programme will fund learning mobility and cross-border cooperation projects for 10 million beneficiaries of all ages. It also aims to become more inclusive and to support the green and digital transitions. Erasmus+ will also support the resilience of education and training systems in the face of the pandemic.
The main conditions for participation in the Programme are available in the new Erasmus+ Programme Guide.
The new Call for Proposals for 2021 covers the following actions of the Erasmus+ Programme:
- Key Action 1 (KA1) – Learning mobility of individuals (Mobility of individuals in the fields of education, training and youth, Youth participation Activities)
- Key Action 2 (KA2) - Cooperation among organisations and institutions (Partnerships for Cooperation: Cooperation Partnerships; Partnerships for Excellence: Centres for Vocational Excellence, Erasmus Mundus Action; Partnerships for Innovation: Alliances for innovation)
- Jean Monnet actions (Jean Monnet in the field of higher education).
The application forms are available on the European Commission's Portal for Funding and Tender Opportunities.
During the 2014-2020 edition of the Erasmus+ Programme, the higher education institutions from Moldova have already succeeded to implement:
- 21 Capacity Building for Higher Education projects;
- 22 Jean Monnet projects;
- More than 600 International Credit Mobility projects;
- More than 3600 academic mobilities between the universities from Moldova and EU for students and academic staff;
- 30 Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree scholarships for participants from Moldova.
The Erasmus Programme was founded in 1987 and since then more that 10 million people have participated in it. Moreover, this emblematic programme was ranked by Europeans as the EU's third most positive result, just after free movement and peace.