Cooperation Partnerships
TOPIC ID: ERASMUS-SPORT-2026-SCP
Type of grant: Call for proposals
General information
Programme:
Call: Sport 2026 (ERASMUS-SPORT-2026)
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: 18 December 2025
Deadline dates: 05 March 2026 17:00 (Brussels time)
Topic description
Scope:
The primary goal of Cooperation Partnerships is to allow organisations to increase the quality and relevance of their activities, to develop and reinforce their networks of partners, to increase their capacity to operate jointly at transnational level, boosting internationalisation of their activities and through exchanging or developing new practices and methods as well as sharing and confronting ideas.
They aim to support the development, transfer and/or implementation of innovative practices as well as the implementation of joint initiatives promoting cooperation, peer learning and exchanges of experience at European level. Results should be re-usable, transferable, upscalable and, if possible, have a strong transdisciplinary dimension.
OBJECTIVES OF THE ACTION
Cooperation Partnerships aim at:
- increasing quality in the work, activities and practices of organisations and institutions involved, opening up to new actors, not naturally included within one sector;
- building capacity of organisations to work transnationally and across sectors;
- addressing common needs and priorities in the fields of education, training, youth and sport;
- enabling transformation and change (at individual, organisational or sectoral level), leading to improvements and new approaches, in proportion to the context of each organisation.
Conditions
1. Admissibility Conditions: Proposal page limit and layout
described in the call document.
Proposal page limits and layout:described in Part B of the Application Form available in the Submission System.
2. Eligible Countries
EU Member States, third countries associated to the Programme and third countries not associated to the Programme in regions 1 to 3, to the exception of Belarus (if justified and for partner role only).
Region 1: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro.
Region 2: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova, territory of Ukraine as recognised by international law.
Region 3: Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Palestine, Syria, Tunisia.
See additional specifications in the call 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:November 12 2025.
Deadline for submitting applications:March 5 2026 17:00 (Brussels time).
Evaluation period:March - August 2026.
Information to applicants:August 2026.
Signature of grant agreement:November - December 2026.
6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants
described in the call document.
Call document and annexes:
Call document and annexes:
Call document
Application form templates
Standard application form (ERASMUS LSI)
Calculator (ERASMUS LS SPORT)
Guidance
ERASMUS Programme Guide
Model Grant Agreements (MGA)
Lump Sum MGA
Additional documents:
ERASMUS+ Work Programme
ERASMUS Regulation 2021/817
EU Financial Regulation 2018/1046
Rules for Legal Entity Validation, LEAR Appointment and Financial Capacity Assessment
EU Grants AGA — Annotated Model Grant Agreement
Funding & Tenders Portal Online Manual
Funding & Tenders Portal Terms and Conditions
Funding & Tenders Portal Privacy Statement
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
Funding & Tenders Portal Online Manual
Funding & Tenders Portal Terms and Conditions
Funding & Tenders Portal Privacy Statement
Start submission
The submission system is planned to be opened on the date stated on the topic header.
Get support
Please read carefully all provisions below before the preparation of your application.
For help related to this call, please contact [email protected]
Funding & Tenders Portal FAQ – Submission of proposals.
IT Helpdesk – Contact the IT helpdesk for questions such as forgotten passwords, access rights and roles, technical aspects of submission of proposals, etc.
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.
