European Universities – Community of practice

Description

1) Objective

The ‘European Universities’ initiative is part of the ‘Partnerships for Excellence’ support provided in the framework of the new Erasmus+ Programme. This initiative has an ambitious mandate aimed to trigger and deepen unprecedented levels of institutional cooperation between higher education institutions, making it systemic, structural and sustainable. It aims to encourage the emergence of bottom-up alliances of universities across Europe, which will enable students to combine studies in several countries.

In line with the priorities of the European Education Area by 2025, these European Universities intend to:

• Promote common European values and a strengthened European identity by bringing together a new generation of Europeans able to cooperate within different cultures, languages, and across borders, sectors and academic disciplines;

• Reach a substantial leap in quality, performance, attractiveness and competitiveness of European higher education institutions, and contribute to the European knowledge economy, employment, creativity, culture and welfare by making the best use of innovative pedagogies and striving to make the knowledge square a reality. ‘European Universities’ will be key drivers to boost the quality of higher education and where possible to strengthen its link to the research and innovation landscape in Europe and its outreach towards the society and economy.

2) Eligibility

In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must: Be legal entities (public or private bodies), Be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.: EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs)); Non-EU countries: third countries associated to the Erasmus+ Programme (including EEA countries), countries which are in ongoing negotiations for an association agreement to the Erasmus+ programme and where that agreement enters into force before the grant signature (list of participating countries) and; Non-EU countries: Western Balkans third countries not associated to the
programme.

3) Location

Actions must take place in EU member states + associated countries and Western Balkans.

4) Budget

The total budget earmarked for the co-financing of projects under this call for proposals is estimated at €189,200,000. Topic 2 has €1,500,000.

5) Application

The deadline for applications submission is 6 February 2024. Proposals must be submitted before the call deadline. Proposals must be submitted electronically via the Funding & Tenders Portal Electronic Submission System (accessible via the Topic page in the Search Funding & Tenders section). Paper submissions are NOT possible.