Erasmus + A Brief Introduction: by Kasia Kowalska

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Erasmus +

a brief introduction

by Kasia Kowalska
Upstream Stories
Different opportunities

Youth projects Adult education Volunteering

Student Higher education


exchanges Capacity building
staff exchange for NGOs
Policy
reforms Vocational Education
Joint Master
Degrees Training

One program

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KEY FIGURES

Total budget: 14.774 billion EUR

10 % of all the budget allocated to


youth

Planned budget increase: 30 billion EUR


for 2021-2027

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The Structure
What are the actions possible within Erasmus +?

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The KEY ACTIONS

Key Action 1; Key Action 2: Key Action 3:


Learning Mobility of Cooperation for Support for Policy
Individuals innovation Reforms

▷ Staff mobility ▷ Strategic ▷Prospective


partnership between initiatives
▷ Volunteering and
youth exchanges NGOs ▷Policy dialogue with
▷ Knowledge Alliance stakeholders, third
▷ Student mobility
& Sector Skills countries and
▷Joint Master Degree international
Alliance
organizations

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Our focus: ka1
This is the key action most suitable for funding
small-scale youth (workers) oriented projects (like
this one!)
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Geographical scope
Witch countries can participate in Erasmus+ ka1?

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Program Countries

▷ All EU member states +


Macedonia, Norway, Iceland,
Liechtenstein
▷ Each of the countries has the
National Agency that distributes
funding
▷ Only program country based
NGOs can apply for KA1

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Partner Countries

Eastern Partnership Western Balkans South Mediterranean


▷ Armenia ▷ Serbia ▷ Algeria
▷ Azerbaijan ▷ Bosnia and ▷ Egypt
▷ Georgia Herzegovina ▷ Israel
▷ Moldova ▷ Kosovo ▷ Jordan
▷ Ukraine ▷ Albania ▷ Lebanon
▷ Belarus ▷ Montenegro ▷ Libya
▷ Morocco
Note: ▷ Palestine
you can have an activity implemented in
▷ Syria
the partner country, but your project still
needs to be applied through an NGO based ▷ Tunisia
in a program country

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Eligibility
Who can apply for funding?

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Types of organizations

▷ Non-profit organizations,
foundations, associations
▷ Social enterprises
▷ Public bodies (limited funding)
▷ Informal groups of young people
active in youth work

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The EU priorities
What should you take into consideration while
developing your project?

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Priorities in the field of youth

Social Inclusion Employability Participation


Projects based on addresing Projects tackling youth Projects focused on enabling
diversity and equality and unemployment and raising key young people to be more engaged
preventing discrimination and competences preventing young in the social and policial life of
radicalization of young people’s people’s exlusion from labour their local communities and
attitudes market becoming active citens (also in the
EU dimension)

Healthy behaviours Digital competences Improvement in youth work


Projects promoting mental and Projects based on innovative Projects aiming at fostering
physicall wellbeing (especially methods and equipping young exchange of good practices and
through sport) people with digital skills developing new tools in
cooperation with NGOs from
different countries (including
partnerships)
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Objectives Example
▷ Discussing the potential of youth work in preventing
discriminative, violent and radical behaviors among young
people
▷ - Adapting our approaches and toolboxes to the modern
(digital) realities that suits the real needs of young people
better
▷ Promoting tools and methods based on digital forms of
expression as a mean for bringing together young people
with diverse cultural backgrounds
▷ Building a better understanding of the challenges and
specifics of working with young people in culturally
diverse societies
▷ Establishing a network of like-minded organizations and
individuals, who are interested in the further exchange on
the topic of promoting peaceful intercultural dialogue
▷ Developing a concrete plan for follow-up projects and
local activities focusing on promoting intercultural
dialogue
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Context

▷ How did you come up with the idea?


▷ Why do you want to do this project?
▷ What are the needs you want to address?
(society, young people, youth workers etc.)
▷ Link to the EU priorities

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Schedule

▷ Detailed desription of methods


▷ Good to include objectives
▷ Thematic days
▷ Must have: 1 day for get to know each
other, Erasmus+, project development,
evaluation and youthpass
▷ Logical flow

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Activities under ka1
Which kind of projects can you implement?

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Moblities of individuals

For young people For youth workers


▷ youth exchanges ▷ trainings
▷EVS ▷ seminars
▷ PBA
▷ job shadowing
▷ study visits

Note:
projects addressed to young people and youth workers are very
different. Youth exchanges are based on peer-to-peer learning and
their content should be designed by young people themselves.
Practical consequence: you cannot organize a training with a lot of
expert input addressed to youth.

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Mobility of youth: youth exchanges

▷ the project idea, its content and


implementation should be the responsibility
of young people
▷ age limit: 13 – 30
▷ number of participants: 16-60
▷ 4 participant + 1 group leader per country
▷ possibility of the APV (Advance Planning
Visit)

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Mobility of youth: EVS

▷ accreditation needed for sending and


hosting
▷ age limit: 17 – 30
▷ duration: 2 – 12 months
▷ maximum 30 volunteers per project
▷ European Solidarity Corps

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Mobility of youth workers

▷ actions possibe: trainings, seminars, job


shadowing, partnership building activity,
study visit
▷ aiming at raising competences of people
already working with youth
▷ age: 18+
▷ number of participants: up to 50
▷ duration: 2 days – 2 months

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Making your project real
How do you apply for the ka1?

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The process

The idea The partners The application

 Decide on the type  Choose the partners  Register your

of activity depending you want to work with applicant organization


on your target group and share your idea, at ECAS
 Make sure your giving them space for  Make sure all your

topic complies with the contributions partners have a PIC


program prioirities  Make sure your number and have sent
 Determine the partners have a profile you the correct
project objectives and that fits the project mandates
the learning outcomes topic  Fill out the
Create a schedule  Make sure the application onlnie
with detailed activities parntership is
for your project geographically
balanced

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Important technical stuff

Deadlines Project timeline Budget


▷ 3 per year (Feb, Apr, ▷ The results are ▷ Everything is based on
Oct) announced 2-3 monts lump sums
▷ Each NA has the annual after deadline ▷ Money comes in two
budget which tend to be ▷It takes time to process (80/20) or three
not equally distributed your contract and send installments (60/20/20)
per deadline (more you the money
money in the beginning of ▷The total duration of
the year) your project is
preparation+activity+foll
ow-up (usually min 6
months

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Sounds to difficult?

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Fear not!
In the last 30 years the Erasmus + funded
trainings for

1,800,000 youth workers

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For more information check the


Program Guide
It’s 326 pages but totally worth it
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