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Topic 4: Adult Learning: Support to the Pact for Skills
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Location:EU 27
Funding agency:
Grantmaking entity: EACEA - Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency
Grantmaking entity type:Development Institution
Description
Topic updates
04 December 2025
EVALUATION results
Published: 17/12/2024
Deadline: 27/5/2025
Available budget: 32,000,000 €
The indicative breakdown of the budget per topic is:
ERASMUS-EDU-2025-PI-FORWARD-ADULT-PS: 4,000,000 €
The results of the evaluation for each topic are as follows:
|
Topic |
ADULT-PS |
|
Proposals submitted |
51 |
|
Inadmissible proposals |
0 |
|
Ineligible proposals |
1 |
|
Above-threshold proposals |
32 |
|
Budget requested for above-threshold proposals |
28,259,547.00 € |
|
Number of proposals retained for funding |
4 |
|
Number of proposals in the reserve list |
1 |
|
Funding threshold* |
87 |
* Proposals with the same score were ranked according to the priority order procedure set out in the call conditions.
We recently informed the applicants about the evaluation results for their proposals.
30 May 2025
Call ERASMUS-EDU-2025-PI-FORWARD has closed on 27/5/2025
689 proposals have been submitted.
The breakdown per topic is:
ERASMUS-EDU-2025-PI-FORWARD-ADULT-PS: 52
Evaluation results are expected to be communicated in November.
Topic 4: Adult Learning: Support to the Pact for Skills
TOPIC ID: ERASMUS-EDU-2025-PI-FORWARD-ADULT-PS
Type of grant: Call for proposals
General information
Programme: Erasmus+ (ERASMUS+)
Call: FORWARD-LOOKING PROJECTS (ERASMUS-EDU-2025-PI-FORWARD)
Type of action: ERASMUS-LS ERASMUS Lump Sum Grants
Type of MGA: ERASMUS Lump Sum Grant [ERASMUS-AG-LS]
Status: Open for submission
Deadline model: single-stage
Opening Date: 18 December 2024
Deadline dates: 27 May 2025 17:00 (Brussels time)
Topic description
Scope:
Under this priority, projects should implement all the activities listed below:
• Develop and support governance structures connecting members of the Pact for Skills;
• Develop and support cooperation of large companies with SMEs, and among SMEs, in the field of training;
• Support the definition, implementation, and monitoring of concrete commitments under the Pact for Skills, such as: gathering skills intelligence; upskilling of low-skilled people; reskilling people for new tasks in their jobs, and reskilling of people from other sectors with skills transferable into the own sector.
Conditions
1. Admissibility Conditions: Proposal page limit and layout
described in the call document.
Proposal page limits and layout: Page limit for the Part B Technical Description of the Application Form is 70 pages.
Layout as described in the Important Notice of the Part B Technical Description of the Application Form.
2. Eligible Countries
described in thecall document.
3. Other Eligible Conditions
described in the call document.
4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion
described in the call document.
5a. Evaluation and award: Submission and evaluation processes
described in the call document.
5b. Evaluation and award: Award criteria, scoring and thresholds
Evaluation criteria, scoring, threshold and process are described in the call document.
5c. Evaluation and award: Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement
described in the call document.
Publication of the call: 18/12/2024
Deadline for submitting applications: 27 May 2025, 17:00 (Brussels time).
Evaluation period: June- September 2025.
Information to applicants: November 2025.
Signature of grant agreement:February 2026.
6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants
n/a
Call document and annexes:
Call document
Application form templates
Standard application form (ERASMUS BB and LSII)
Detailed budget table (ERASMUS LSII)
Guidance
ERASMUS Programme Guide, specifically Part C, Information for Applicants
Model Grant Agreements (MGA)
Lump Sum MGA
Additional documents:
ERASMUS+ Work Programme
ERASMUS Regulation 2021/817
EU Financial Regulation 2024/2509
Rules for Legal Entity Validation, LEAR Appointment and Financial Capacity Assessment
EU Grants AGA — Annotated Model Grant Agreement
How to manage your lump sum grants
Funding & Tenders Portal Online Manual
Funding & Tenders Portal Terms and Conditions
Funding & Tenders Portal Privacy Statement
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For help related to this call, please contact EACEA-Policy-Support@ec.europa.eu.
Funding & Tenders Portal FAQ – Submission of proposals.
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Online Manual – Step-by-step online guide through the Portal processes from proposal preparation and evaluation to reporting on your ongoing project. Valid for all 2021-2027 programmes.
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About the Funding Agency
EuropeAid is an agency responsible for designing European international cooperation and development policy and delivering aid worldwide. Its purpose is to aid in the reduction and eventual abolition of poverty in developing nations by fostering sustainable development, democracy, peace and security. With its partner nations, EuropeAid walks alongside them on their journey to sustainable development, continually adapting its help to their changing requirements. EuropeAid is also concerned with increasing the value and impact of aid money by ensuring that help is provided appropriately.
Under the donor EC - European Commission, DevelopmentAid covers the following entities:
Departments / Directorate Generals
- AGRI - Agriculture & Rural Development
- BUDG - Budget
- CLIMA - Climate Action
- COMM - Communication
- CNECT – Communications Networks, Content & Technology (formerly Digital Agenda)
- COMP - Competition
- ECFIN - Economic & Financial Affairs
- EAC - Education & Culture
- EMPL - Employment, Social Affairs & Inclusion
- ENER - Energy
- ENV - Environment
- ESTAT - Eurostat
- FISMA – Financial Stability, Financial Services & Capital Markets Union
- SANTE - Health & Food Safety
- ECHO - Humanitarian Aid & Civil Protection
- HR - Human Resources & Security
- DIGIT - Informatics
- GROW - Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship & SMEs
- DEVCO – International Cooperation & Development - EUROPEAID
- SCIC - Interpretation
- JRC - Joint Research Centre
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- MARE - Maritime Affairs & Fisheries
- HOME - Migration & Home Affairs
- MOVE - Mobility & Transport
- NEAR – Neighbourhood & Enlargement Negotiations
- REGIO - Regional & Urban Policy
- RTD - Research & Innovation
- SG – Secretariat-General - no procurement opportunities available
- FPI – Service for Foreign Policy Instruments
- TAXUD - Taxation & Customs Union
- TRADE - Trade
- DGT - Translation
Agencies
- European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
- Eurojust
- European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)
- European Chemicals Agency (ECHA)
- European GNSS Agency (GSA)
- European Union Agency for Network and Information Security
- The European Joint Undertaking for ITER and the Development of Fusion Energy ("Fusion for Energy")
- European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights
- European Stability Mechanism (ESM)
- Consumers, Health, Agriculture and Food Executive Agency (CHAFEA), Health and Food Safety Unit
- European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA)
- European Fisheries Control Agency
- Single Resolution Board
- Office of the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC Office)
- The Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (EASME)
- European Asylum Support Office
- European Union Intellectual Property Office
- European Union Agency for Railways
- European Environment Agency
- European Agency for the operational management of large-scale IT systems in the area of freedom, security and justice (eu-LISA)
- Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA)
- European Defence Agency
- EU Grant Programmes
EU Bodies
- European Parliament
- Council of the European union
- Court of Justice of the European Union
- European Court of Auditors
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About the Sectors
Education, Training & Capacity Building
Covers formal and informal education, training, and capacity-building activities that develop knowledge, skills, and institutional capabilities across all age groups.
Key areas:
- Education systems and learning programmes
- Vocational training and skills development
- Capacity building and professional development