This document discusses the Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership program. It describes the key actions and types of strategic partnerships supported, which include those supporting innovation and exchange of good practices. Eligible organizations are presented, along with examples of opportunities and activities that can be funded. The application process is summarized, including required sections that describe the participants, objectives, management, and work plan. Intellectual outputs that could be developed are also listed.

1. Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership
Sofia University, December 2018
Mirko Varano
varano@kth.se

2. Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership
Key Actions
1.
Learning Mobility
2.
Co-operation Projects
3.
Policy Support
SP

3. Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership
• Strategic Partnerships - a cooperation network bringing together
institutions/organisations active in the fields of education, training and/or
youth, as well as enterprises, research institutes, public authorities, social
partners etc.
• Strategic Partnerships are transnational projects designed to develop
and share innovative practices and promote cooperation, peer learning,
and exchanges of experiences in the fields of higher education at
European Level.
• Strategic Partnerships can be mono-sectoral or cross-sectoral.

4. Types of strategic partnerships
• There are two kinds of Strategic Partnership
• Strategic Partnerships supporting innovation:
Projects are expected to develop innovative outputs, and/or engage into intensive dissemination and
exploitation activities of existing and newly produced products or innovative ideas. Applicants have the
possibility to request a dedicated budget for Intellectual Outputs and Multiplier Events in order to directly
answer to the innovation aspect of the Action. These types of projects are open to all fields of
education, training and youth.
• Strategic Partnerships supporting exchange of good practices:
The primary goal is to allow organisations to develop and reinforce networks, increase their capacity to
operate at transnational level, share and confront ideas, practices and methods.

5. What are the opportunities?
• Strategic Partnerships provide opportunities for public, private, and
non-governmental organisations to implement activities:
• Strengthening cooperation and networking between organisations,
• Promoting the development, testing, and implementation of innovative practices,
• Promoting the recognition and validation of knowledge, skills, and competences,
• Promoting cooperation between regional authorities to develop new systems for
education, training, and youth,
• Supporting learners with disabilities and special needs and ease their transition to the
labour market,
• Supporting education and training professionals to promote equity, diversity, and
inclusion in learning,
• Promoting integration of newly arrived migrants and raising awareness about the
refugee crisis in Europe
• Promoting entrepreneurship and active citizenship among young people.

6. How does it work?
• Participating organisations intending to apply for an opportunity must be
based in a Programme Country.
• Applications must be led by an organisation established in a Programme
Country and must generally involve at least three organisations from
three different Programme Countries.
• Applications can include any number of organisations. They may also
include organisations from Partner Countries, provided that they bring
essential added value to the project.
• Higher Education Institutions established in Programme Countries must
also hold a valid Erasmus Charter for Higher Education.

7. What can be funded?
• Example:
• Coordination, communication, information, promotion etc.
• Participation in meetings between project partners (travel/subsistence costs)
• Development of joint curricula, IT tools, analyses, studies etc.
• Conferences/events to disseminate the intellectual outputs
• Long-term teaching/training assignments, Intensive Programmes
• Sub-contracting (e.g. translation, IT support)
• Costs related to participants with special needs (disabilities)

8. What can be funded?
• Project Management & Implementation (€ 500 coordinating organisation, € 250 per organisation)
• Transnational Project Meetings (Distance Calculator)
• Intellectual Outputs (Manager, research/teacher/trainer, technician, administrative staff)
• Transnational Training, Teaching and Learning activities
• Multiplier Events (Max. € 30.000 per project)
• Exceptional costs (Max. € 50.000)
• Special needs support (100% of eligible costs)

9. How does it work?
• Duration of project
24 – 36 month
• Max. grant awarded
grants for projects are capped at € 150,000 per year up to € 450.000 for projects
with duration of 36 months
• Funding
unilateral. Coordinator receives the entire budget
• Composition
projects run by consortium of institutions from at least 3 partners from 3 different
countries.
• Application
submitted by the coordinator
N.B. Organisations from Partner Countries can be involved in a Strategic Partnership, as partners (not as
applicants), if their participation brings an essential added value to the project.

10. How to apply?
• Annual Calls for Proposals issued by EU
• The application form contains the information on:
• Applicant organisation and participant organisations
• Project objectives and task/activities
• Expected results
• Project budget and the financing requested

11. Project planning
• The project is oriented towards:
• Exchange of experience and good practice?
• Development of innovative practices?
Depending on the objectives of the project, the participating organisations involved,
the expected impact, Strategic Partnerships can be of different sizes, and adapt
their activities accordingly.
• Project phases:
• Preparation
• Implementation
• Follow-up
• Dissemination
• Closure

12. Application form sections A-B
• Section A:
• General information
• Section B:
• Information about the project application
• Indicate – type of project
• Language of the project – the language in which the form is filled
• Project identification – the title, start date, project duration (2 or 3 years), end date
• National Agency of the applicant organisation

13. Section B

14. Application form section C-D
• Priorities
• Most relevant topics addressed by the project – connected with the priorities of
Erasmus+ programme and priorities of Key Action 2.
• Applicant organisation and partners:
• PIC number – after pressing this button the information about organisations will be
automatically copied
• Legal representative
• Contact person
In order to add a partner press the button ”Add partner”

15. Section C

16. European Priorities
• To be funded, Strategic Partnerships must address either:
• at least one horizontal priority
or
• at least one field-specific priority relevant to the field of education, training and
youth that is mostly impacted

17. Horizontal priorities
• Improving achievement in relevant and high - level basic and transversal competences
in a lifelong learning perspective (i.e. entrepreneurial, spirit, digital and/or linguistic skills).
• Supporting inclusive education, training and youth and/or projects focussing on the
topic of the refugees' crisis in Europe.
• Mainstreaming and spreading the utilisation of open and innovative education, training
and youth pedagogies, participatory education governance, work methods and resources
for educators and learners at all levels, in particular those in a disadvantaged situation.
• Promoting the use of ICT as a driver for systemic change to increase the quality and
relevance of education, training and youth policies at all levels.
• Contributing to transparency and recognition of skills and qualifications to facilitate
learning, employability and labour mobility.
• Supporting sustainable investment, performance and efficiency in education and
training.

18. Field-specific priorities
• Increasing attainment levels, contributing to social inclusion and promoting
intercultural and civic competences of students.
• Strengthening quality through mobility and cross - border cooperation.
• Promoting the development of new modes of delivery and exploiting and responding to
new technologies in learning and teaching.

19. Section D

20. Application form section E
• Description of the project:
• Rationale of the project, objectives and needs to be addresses. Why is the project
necessary? What problems do you plan to address/solve with the help of the project?
• What is the innovative aspect of the project?
• Project partners. What will be their contribution to the project?
• Communication with the partners – how will it be organised? Do you foresee
transnational project meetings? What will be the purpose of these meetings? Who will
be the participants?
• Planned project results – expected results during the project and on its completion.
Provide a detailed description of project results.

21. Application form section F
• Preparation:
• What will be done before the project activities (needs analyses, distribution of partner
tasks, establishment of a working group)

22. Application form section G
• Project Management:
• How will proper budget control be ensured?
• How will quality of the project`s activities and results be monitored? Whether any evaluation and monitoring
activities are foreseen?
• Measures to handle possible risks?
• Activities and indicators of achievement (quantitative and qualitative)
• Project implementation:
• Description of the activities – the project application includes all the project phases: preparation,
implementation, follow-up, dissemination); the work programme is clearly defined, realistic and relevant to
the objectives of the project and reaching project results.
• Project activities:
• This section is filled only then if your partnership is planning development of the Intellectual Output that
has a significant impact contribution in terms of potential impact and transferability (e.g. new curricula,
pedagogical materials, IT tools).

23. Section G

24. Types of Intellectual Outputs
Open On-Line Courses; 5,8%
Services / Structures; 8,8%
Courses/Curricula; 13,5%
Studies / Analysis; 19,4%
Learning / Teaching Material; 25,6%
Methodologies / Guidelines; 20,5%
Policy Recommendations; 3,1%

25. Relevant results

26. Working definition
• Results are either OUTPUTS or OUTCOMES
• Outputs: a tangible product which is produced by given project and which may be
quantified.
• Outcome: an intangible added value achieved through implementation of the project
objectives and targets. Ordinarily, such added value defies quantification, whether it
covers concrete events and actions such as training, training platforms, content or
methodology, or more abstract consequences such as increased awareness,
increased skills or improved abilities.

27. Application form section G
• Multiplier Events:
• National and transnational conferences/seminars/events/ aimed at sharing and
disseminating the Intellectual Outputs realised by the project; support for organising
multiplier events can only be received if a project has foreseen the development of
Intellectual Output.
• Transnational Training, Teaching and Learning activities:
• Short-term exchanges of groups of pupils (5 days to 2 months)
• Long-term study mobility of pupils (2 to 12 months)
• Long-term teaching or training assignments ( 2 to 12 months)
• Short-term joint staff training events (5 days to 2 months)

28. Section G

29. Section G

30. Application form section H
• Follow-up:
• Impact on the participants, participating organisations, target groups (Local, regional,
national, European, international level)
• Dissemination and use of project results:
• Project results are transferrable to other target groups
• Appropriate methods and tools will be used for dissemination
• Planned activities will ensure optimal use of results at different levels
• Each participating organisation has adequate resources available
• Sustainability:
• What are the activities and results that are planned to be maintained after the end of
the EU funding including the needed resources to sustain them?

31. Application form section I
• Budget:
• The proposed funding model consists of items from which applicants will choose
according to the activities they want to undertake and the results they want to
achieve.

32. Section I

33. Application form sections J-M
• Project summary (J)
• Summary of participating organisations (J)
• Budget summary (J)
• Technical eligibility checklist (K)
• Data protection (L)
• Declaration of Honour (M):
• Has to be printed, signed by legal representative and attached to the application
form.

34. Section J

35. Application form sections N-O
• Section N – Annexes
• Timeline of for the project activities
• Mandate letter from each participating partner
• A scanned copy of signed Declaration of Honour
• Section O – Submission on-line!

36. Timetable

37. Mandate

38. Declaration of Honour

39. Award Criteria
• Proposals assessed by experts on basis of:
• Relevance of the project
• Quality of project design and implementation
• Quality of project team and the cooperation
• Impact and dissemination
To be considered for funding, proposals must score at least 60 points and they must
score at least half of the maximum score in each categories of award criteria

40. Relevance of the project – 30p
• The relevance of the proposal to:
• the objectives and the priorities of the action
• if the proposal addresses the horizontal priority
• if the proposal addresses one or more "European Priorities in the national context", as
announced by the National Agency
• The extent to which:
• the proposal is based on a genuine and adequate needs analysis
• the objectives are clearly defined, realistic and address issues relevant to the
participating organisations and target groups
• the proposal is suitable of realising synergies between different fields of education
• the proposal is innovative and/or complementary to other initiatives already carried
out by the participating organisations
• the proposal brings added value at EU level through results that would not be attained
by activities carried out in a single country

41. Quality of the project design and implementation –
20p
• The clarity, completeness and quality of the work programme, including appropriate
phases for preparation, implementation, monitoring, evaluation and dissemination
• The consistency between project objectives and activities proposed
• The quality and feasibility of the methodology proposed
• The existence and relevance of quality control measures to ensure that the project
implementation is of high quality, completed in time and on budget
• The extent to which the project is cost-effective and allocates appropriate resources to
each activity
If the project plans training, teaching or learning activities:
• The extent to which these activities are appropriate to the project's aims and involve the
appropriate number of participants
• The quality of arrangements for the recognition and validation of participants' learning
outcomes, in line with European transparency and recognition tools and principles

42. Quality of the project team and the cooperation
arrangements – 20p
• The extent to which:
• the project involves an appropriate mix of complementary participating organisations
with the necessary profile, experience and expertise to successfully deliver all
aspects of the project
• the distribution of responsibilities and tasks demonstrates the commitment and active
contribution of all participating organisations
• if relevant for the project type, the project involves participation of organisations from
different fields of education, training, youth and other socio-economic sectors
• the project involves newcomers to the Action.
• The existence of effective mechanisms for coordination and communication between the
participating organisations, as well as with other relevant stakeholders
• If applicable, the extent to which the involvement of a participating organisation from a
Partner Country brings an essential added value to the project

43. Impact and dissemination – 30p
• The quality of measures for evaluating the outcomes of the project
• The potential impact of the project:
• on participants and participating organisations, during and after the project lifetime
• outside the organisations and individuals directly participating in the project, at local,
regional, national and/or European levels.
• The quality of the dissemination plan: the appropriateness and quality of measures aimed
at sharing the outcomes of the project within and outside the participating organisations
• If relevant, the extent to which the proposal describes how the materials, documents and
media produced will be made freely available and promoted through open licences, and
does not contain disproportionate limitations
• The quality of the plans for ensuring the sustainability of the project: its capacity to
continue having an impact and producing results after the EU grant has been used up.

44. Themes
• Interdisciplinary teaching and learning approaches, methods & facilities.
• Linking studies to real life: awareness of local community, EU and world issues.
• Transnational entrepreneurship classroom
• Interdisciplinary education and entrepreneurship: crafts, arts, design, theatre & music.
• Entrepreneurship: tourism, travelling, hospitality, designing souvenirs & foreign
languages.
• Entrepreneurship: ecology, natural sciences, technics, electronics & foreign languages.
• Blended (face-to-face + virtual) learning for entrepreneurship and creativity.
• Young enterprise: school – business – community partnership.
• Creativity and entrepreneurship skills in vocational studies.
• Social entrepreneurship.

45. Links
• Erasmus+ International Credit Mobility - Handbook
https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/erasmus-plus/sites/erasmusplus/files/international-credit-mobility-
handbook_en.pdf
• What are the aims and priorities of a Strategic Partnership?
https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/erasmus-plus/programme-guide/part-b/three-key-actions/key-action-
2/strategic-partnerships-field-education-training-youth_en
• Project formats, Training, teaching and learning embedded in
Strategic Partnerships, Examples of Strategic Partnerships
https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/erasmus-plus/programme-guide/annexes/annex-i/strategic-partnerships_en

46. Deadline
21 March 2019 at 12.00 CET