Capacity Building in the field of Youth in Sub-Saharan Africa

Topic updates

12 August 2025

Total budget available for the ERASMUS-YOUTH-2025-CB: EUR17.800.000

The budget breakdown is as follows:

·ERASMUS-YOUTH-2025-CB-SSA: EUR 7 000 000

The results of the evaluation are as follows:

Number of proposals submitted: 789

Number of inadmissible proposals: 0

Number of ineligible proposals: 173

Number of above threshold proposals: 55

Total budget requested for the above threshold proposals: 16.966.478,37 €

We informed the applicants about the evaluation results for their proposals on 11/08/2025.

For questions, please contact: EACEA-YOUTH@ec.europa.eu

11 March 2025

Call ERASMUS-YOUTH-2024-CB has closed on 6 March 2025.

789 proposals in total have been submitted in response to this call.

The breakdown per topic/region is as follows:

-Western Balkans (region 1): 224 proposals

-Eastern Partnership (region 2) : 84 proposals

-Southern Mediterranean Countries (region 3): 147 proposals

-Sub Saharan Africa (region 9): 334 proposals

Evaluation results are expected to be communicated by end August 2025, latest.

07 February 2025

The European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) would like to remind all potential applicants for this topic call to check the eligibility conditions carefully.

Please note that for this topic call to be eligible a proposal must have an entity from a EU Member State or third country associated to the Programme as coordinator.

Organisations from Sub Saharan African countries are eligible to participate, but NOT as coordinators .

Please pay particular attention to page 342 and footnote 428 of the Call document.

07 January 2025

The European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) will organise an information session on the Erasmus+ call for proposals “Capacity building in the field of Youth 2025” (call ERASMUS-YOUTH-2025-CB).

The event will take place online on 13 January 2025 from 14:00 to 16:45 CET.

Applicants are invited to check the Online Info Session: Erasmus+ Capacity building in the field of Youth 2025 - Sub-Saharan Africa - European Commission

https://www.eacea.ec.europa.eu/news-events/events/online-info-session-erasmus-capacity-building-field-youth-2025-sub-saharan-africa-2025-01-13_en

for support materials and the link to join this info session.

17 December 2024

The European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) will organise an information session on the Erasmus+ call for proposals “Capacity building in the field of Youth 2025” (call ERASMUS-YOUTH-2025-CB).

The event will take place online on 13 January 2025 from 09:30 to 12:00 CET.

Applicants are invited to check the event webpage https://www.eacea.ec.europa.eu/news-events/events/info-session-erasmus-capacity-building-field-youth-2025-2025-01-13_en

for support materials and the link to join this info session.

Capacity Building in the field of Youth in Sub-Saharan Africa

TOPIC ID: ERASMUS-YOUTH-2025-CB-SSA

Type of grant: Call for proposals

General information

Programme:

Call: Capacity Building in the field of Youth (ERASMUS-YOUTH-2025-CB)

Type of action: ERASMUS-LS ERASMUS Lump Sum Grants

Type of MGA: ERASMUS Lump Sum Grant [ERASMUS-AG-LS]

Status: Forthcoming

Deadline model: single-stage

Planned Opening Date: 05 December 2024

Deadline dates: 06 March 2025 17:00 (Brussels time)

Topic description

Expected Impact:

The expected impact focuses on improving the capacity of youth organisations, particularly in eligible third countries not associated to the Programme in Region 9 (Sub Saharan Africa) to:

• improve the involvement of young people in democratic life, in terms of active citizenship and engagement with decision-makers (empowerment, new skills, involvement of young people in project design, etc.);
• improve the entrepreneurial and innovative capacities of young people;
• work transnationally while ensuring inclusiveness, solidarity and sustainability;
• promote and contribute to transnational learning and cooperation between young people and decision makers;
• upscale existing practices and outreach beyond the partnership, including making good use of digital means to stay connected under all circumstances even in situations of remoteness, isolation or confinement;
• link their results to local communities, creating job opportunities and nurturing innovative ideas that could be replicated and scaled up;
• demonstrate inclusion and accessibility of target groups with fewer opportunities and individuals;
• Youth Exchanges or Youth Participation Activities shall be planned and shall support the empowerment of African youth, e.g. for sustainable employability and active citizenship, as well as increase policy dialogue, coordination and valorisation of cooperation between African and European partners.

Objective:

Capacity-building in the field of youth projects are international cooperation projects based on multilateral partnerships between organisations active in the field of youth in the EU and countries associated to the Programme, on the one hand, and in third countries not associated to the Programme, on the other hand. For the latter, this action targets exclusively countries in Region 9 (Sub Saharan Africa).

Projects shall aim both at, on one hand, supporting international cooperation in the field of youth and non-formal learning, as a driver of sustainable socio-economic development and well-being among youth organisations and young people and, on the other, at promoting the mobility of young people to encourage their active participation in society as well as to help them acquire and develop competences for life and for their professional future. In specific, projects shall:

• Raise the capacity of organisations working with young people outside formal learning;
• Promote non-formal learning in the eligible third countries not associated to the Programme, especially in organisations that target young people with fewer opportunities (through the development, testing and launching of schemes and programmes of non-formal learning mobility in Partner countries);
• Support the development of youth work in the eligible third countries not associated to the Programme;
• Contribute to the achievement of the goals of the Youth Mobility for Africa flagship initiative. This initiative is part of the Global Gateway Africa-Europe Investment Package to increase strategic engagement between the EU and Africa on learning mobility and youth on both continents. The initiative contributes to the Youth Action Plan in External Action (2022-2027) and the commitments made at the 6th EU-African Union Summit in 2022.
• Foster interregional cooperation;
• Enhance synergies and complementarities with formal education systems.

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The submission system is planned to be opened on the date stated on the topic header.

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