Capacity Building in the field of Youth in Western Balkans

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-WB: EUR 3 500 000

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.

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 Western Balkans

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

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 1 (Western Balkans) 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.

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 topic targets exclusively countries in Region 1 (Western Balkans).

Projects shall aim at 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. 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 promotion and implementation of the ‘Engage-Connect-Empower’ priorities of the EU Youth Strategy (2019-2027) including the 11 European Youth goals and the European Youth Work Agenda;
• Foster interregional cooperation;
• Enhance synergies and complementarities with formal education systems.

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