The document provides tips and criteria for organizations applying for funding under the Erasmus+ Sector Skills Alliances program. It outlines the key areas that will be evaluated in applications: relevance of the project idea, quality of project design and implementation, quality of the project team and cooperation, and impact and dissemination of project results. For each area, it lists the maximum points awarded and provides brief explanations of what should be addressed in the project description.

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Erasmus+:
Knowledge Alliances
and
Sector Skills Alliances
Infoday
12 November 2014

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Sector Skills Alliances
Project Description and Award Criteria
Tips and Discussion
Vytaute Ezerskiene, Oscar Casamian Marco, Natalia
Riesgo Figuerola-Ferretti, Pavol Krempasky
Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency

3. Relevance (Max 25 points)
3
Award
criteria
TIPS (Project description)
Policy Visit web pages of DG EAC's and CEDEFOP; European Sector Skills
Councils
Purpose objectives of SSA (skills needs, co-operation training +world of work,
mobility=recognition of qualifications); work-based learning (when
relevant)
Consistency Need analysis; realistic needs of partners and sector; ESCO
(European Skills, Competences, Occupations and Qualifications), EU
Skills Panorama
Innovation Innovation for target groups/sectors/methods/techniques/ approaches;
added value to tools that exist already (e.g. ADAM portal;
national/European initiatives)
European
added value
Transnational benefits/needs;why a project should be done on European
level (and not at national);results rerlevant for many countries

4. Quality of the project design and
implementation (Max 30 points)
4
Award
criteria
TIPS (Project description)
Methodology Coherence; milestones; measurable indicators; corrective measures
Overall project
management
3 different types of organisations; different approaches to management;
management plan; realistic work programme; steering committees;
regular meetings; adequate partnership communication channels
Quality
assurance,
evaluation and
monitoring
Specific measures; quality indicators; internal and/or external evaluation;
continuous evaluation; corrective measures; apply sector knowledge;
testing materials
Recognition and
validation
Embedded in the partnership (bodies with regulatory function); use of
networks; clear sustainability strategy from the beginning of the project
Budget and
costs-
effectiveness
Individual mobility only when duly justified; mobility linked to the travel
of staff is embedded in the unit costs

5. Quality of the project team and cooperation
arrangements (Max 25 points)
5
Award
criteria
TIPS (Project description)
Configuration Includes sector oriented organisations; covers all possible aspects of the
project implementation; uses existing networks; national and
transnational; has clear specific objectives
Commitment,
tasks
General aims of the organisation and specific project objectives; clear
definition of tasks; coherence in the allocation of tasks; role and share of
workload; operational and technical capacity: clearly described and
measurable.
Collaboration Partnership agreements signed from the start; transfer of funds:
conditions; deadlines for deliverables; mechanisms for cooperation; ways
to share workload, responsibilities, difficult circumstances
Partner
country
participation
If any, clear EU added value

6. Impact and dissemination (Max 20 points)
6
Award
criteria
TIPS – (Project description)
Dissemination and exploitation (p297-303,Programme Guide)
Exploitation Mainstreaming (e.g. decision makers); Multiplication (e.g. trainers); IPR;
transferable/flexible results; using results after end of a project; testing
results; e.g. delivering EU sector-specific curricula
Disseminatio
n
Spreading information; from beginning; Local, regional, national, European
levels; clear plan (what, why, when, how, to whom);
Networks/Associations/ European Sector Skills Councils; target groups
(quantitative/qualitative indicators)/stakeholders (involvment and ways to
reach them); local authorities/career guidance = facilitators; occupation of
high labour market demand/new business creation potential
Impact Expected (e.g. impact study); on partners, stakehloders, sector,
occupations, policy, practice;beyond partners; short/long term; changes a
project will bring
Open access Opening Up Education; open access to results (limitations to access possible)
Sustainability Continuation of partnership/activities/results after end of a project;
recognition/accreditation of results; commercialisation/for free; update of
results