European Universities

TOPIC ID: ERASMUS-EDU-2026-EUR-UNIV

Type of grant: Call for proposals

General information

Programme: Erasmus (ERASMUS )

Call: European Universities (ERASMUS-EDU-2026-EUR-UNIV)

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 November 2025

Deadline dates: 04 March 2026 17:00 (Brussels time)

Topic description

European Universities’ main objectives are to further develop institutionalised cooperation, making it systemic, structural and sustainable and to increase quality, performance and international competitiveness of European higher education institutions. In line with the vision for a European Education Area, these alliances intend to achieve the following aims: As such, European Universities aim at achieving the following main objectives:

• Promote common European values as enshrined in article 2 of the Treaty on European Union and a strengthened European identity by bringing together a new generation of Europeans who are able to cooperate and work within different European and global cultures, in different languages, and across borders, sectors and academic disciplines.
• Reach a substantial leap in quality, performance, attractiveness and international competitiveness and enable deep institutional transformation of involved European higher education institutions and contribute to the European knowledge economy, employment, creativity, culture and welfare by making 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 links to the research and innovation landscape in Europe and its outreach towards the society and economy.

Paving the way for a new dimension in European higher education, the successful European Universities need a sustainable financial perspective to deliver on the ambition for continued transformation and to inspire the wider higher education sector. In this context, support under this call will be open for already existing deep institutional transnational cooperation alliances of higher education institutions including – but not limited to – the European Universities alliances selected under the 2022 Erasmus+ call for proposals.

The Erasmus+ funding period for the alliances selected under this call will be of 2 years.

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