Serces to enhance the innovation management capacity of SMEs in the macro-region 1 in Romania
- Funding agency:
- Horizon 2020
- Status:
- awarded
- Location:
- Romania
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Alliances for STEM Skills Foundries
Details
Location:
EU 27
Grantmaking entity:
Grantmaking entity type:
Bilateral development agency or DFI
Status:
Awarded
Budget:
N/A
Award ceiling:
EUR 1,500,000
Award floor:
N/A
Sector:
Education, Training & Capacity Building
Languages:
English
Eligible applicants:
NGOs / Nonprofit Organisations, Government / Public Bodies, Academic Institutions, Private Sector, Research and Technology Organisations (RTOs)
Eligible applicant countries:
EU 27, Iceland, Liechtenstein, North Macedonia, Norway, Serbia, Türkiye
Date posted:
Nov 28, 2025
Description
Topic updates
02 February 2026
Important update
The European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) has published support materials for applicants that intend to submit a proposal under this call.
These resources are available on EACEA website. Applicants are invited to check them carefully.
Alliances for STEM Skills Foundries
TOPIC ID: ERASMUS-EDU-2026-PI-ALL-INNO-STEM
Type of grant: Call for proposals
General information
Programme:
Call: Partnerships for Innovation - Alliances for Innovation (ERASMUS-EDU-2026-PI-ALL-INNO)
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: 10 March 2026 17:00 (Brussels time)
Topic description
Scope:
Lot 3: STEM Skills Foundries
STEM Skills Foundries aim to create sectorial, transnational and sustainable cooperation between higher education institutions, VET providers and business companies that will foster new, innovative and multidisciplinary approaches to teaching and learning by providing young student entrepreneurs with real business-insights and mentoring opportunities tailored to their talents, needs and objectives. The specific focus of this topic is the fostering of innovation, creating entrepreneurial mindsets, providing young student entrepreneurs access to laboratories, technical infrastructures and equipment, supporting the development of intellectual property (IP), guiding them in the development of their master’s theses or business ideas, as well as facilitating access to venture capital in the strategic sectors identified in the Competitiveness Compass.
Projects supported under this topic will aim at boosting innovation through cooperation among higher education and VET providers with labour market and entrepreneurial actors with a possible participation of venture capital funds,facilitated by EIT KICs.
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 120 pages for all the 3 Lots. Within these 120 pages limit, the list of relevant previous projects is included.
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: 28 November 2025.
Deadline for submitting applications: 10 March 2026, 17:00 (Brussels time).
Evaluation period: March - July 2026.
Information to applicants: by September 2026.
Signature of grant agreement: September - December 2026.
6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants
n/a
Call document and annexes:
Application form templates
Standard application form (ERASMUS BB and LSII)
Detailed budget table (ERASMUS LSII)
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
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.
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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
- JUST - Justice & Consumers
- 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
- European Economic and Social Committee
- European Committee of the Regions
- Publications office of the European Union
- European Patent Office
- European External Action Service
- Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators
- Energy Community Secretariat
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
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