Topic updates
27 January 2026
The European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) has published support materials for applicants that intend to submit a proposal under the Call Partnerships for Cooperation – Cooperation Partnerships in the field of education and training submitted by European NGOs (Call for proposals ERASMUS-EDU-2026-PCOOP-ENGO).
These resources are available on EACEA website https://www.eacea.ec.europa.eu/news-events/news/erasmus-cooperation-partnerships-field-education-and-training-submitted-european-ngos-what-you-need-2026-01-26_en
Applicants are invited to check carefully the presentations.
Partnerships for Cooperation - Cooperation Partnerships in the field of education and training submitted by European NGOs
TOPIC ID: ERASMUS-EDU-2026-PCOOP-ENGO
Type of grant: Call for proposals
General information
Programme: Erasmus (ERASMUS )
Call: Partnerships for Cooperation - Cooperation Partnerships in the field of education and training submitted by European NGOs (ERASMUS-EDU-2026-PCOOP-ENGO)
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: 04 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.
Selected projects will be expected to share the results of their activities at local, regional, national level and transnational level.
Cooperation Partnerships are anchored to the priorities and policy frameworks of each Erasmus+ sector, both at European and national level, while aiming at producing incentives for cross-sectoral and horizontal cooperation in thematic areas.
Cooperation Partnerships in the field of education and training submitted by European NGOs are managed by the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). The applicant coordinator must be a European NGO active in the field of education and training. The European body/secretariat of the European NGO applies on behalf of the European NGO.
Conditions
1. Admissibility Conditions: Proposal page limit and layout
described in the Erasmus+ Programme Guide 2026.
Proposal page limits and layout: described in Part B of the Application Form available in the Submission System.
Page limit for the Part B of the Application Form (Technical Description) is 70 pages.
Layout is described in the Important Notice of the application form.
2. Eligible Countries
described in the Erasmus+ Programme Guide 2026.
3. Other Eligible Conditions
described in the Erasmus+ Programme Guide 2026.
4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion
described in the Erasmus+ Programme Guide 2026.
5a. Evaluation and award: Submission and evaluation processes
described in the Erasmus+ Programme Guide 2026.
5b. Evaluation and award: Award criteria, scoring and thresholds
Evaluation criteria, scoring, threshold and process are described the Erasmus+ Programme Guide 2026.
5c. Evaluation and award: Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement
described in the Erasmus+ Programme Guide 2026.
Publication of the call: 27 November 2025.
Deadline for submitting applications: 5 March 2026, 17:00 (Brussels time).
Evaluation period:March - July 2026.
Information to applicants:September 2026.
Signature of grant agreement:September - December 2026.
6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants
Call document and annexes:
Application form templates
Standard application form (ERASMUS LSI)
Calculator (ERASMUS LS ENGO)
Guidance
Erasmus+ Programme Guide 2026
Model Grant Agreements (MGA)
Lump Sum MGA
Additional documents:
Call document
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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The submission system is planned to be opened on the date stated on the topic header.
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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.
