EU FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT TIPS

This year’s Call focuses on the six following priorities:

Priority 1 – Acquisition of basic skills by low-skilled adults

Priority 2 – Designing and assessing the effectiveness of continuing training to meet current and future skill needs

Priority 3 - Promoting innovative technology in the field of providing career guidance

Priority 4 - Promoting innovative and cross-disciplinary approaches to STE(A)M teaching in education

Priority 5 - Promoting the use of self-reflection tools to support innovation and systemic change in education and training institutions

Priority 6 - Higher education – achieving the aims of the Digital Education Action Plan (including Open science), and assessing learning outcomes for the purpose of benchmarking among higher education institutions

The overall available budget is of 12.000.000 EUR and the maximum grant per project is equal to 500.000 EUR.

The main changes introduced in 2017 include:

• The introduction of the concept of “European priorities in the national context” under KA2 Strategic Partnership. For more information on this, please visit the website of each relevant national Agency.
• The funding rules for some decentralized actions have been fine-tuned,
• The action "Sector Skills Alliances" is no longer covered by this General Call and Programme Guide and will be dealt with separately through a Specific Call for Proposals announced by the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency.