Topic 4: Adult Learning: Support to the Pact for Skills
ERASMUS Lump Sum Grants
Basic Information
- Identifier
- ERASMUS-EDU-2025-PI-FORWARD-ADULT-PS
- Programme
- FORWARD-LOOKING PROJECTS
- Programme Period
- 2021 - 2027
- Status
- Closed (31094503)
- Opening Date
- December 18, 2024
- Deadline
- May 27, 2025
- Deadline Model
- single-stage
- Budget
- €4,333,334
- Min Grant Amount
- –
- Max Grant Amount
- –
- Expected Number of Grants
- –
- Keywords
- ERASMUS-EDU-2025-PI-FORWARD-ADULT-PSERASMUS-EDU-2025-PI-FORWARD
Description
Under this priority, projects should implement all the activities listed below:
• Develop and support governance structures connecting members of the Pact for Skills;
• Develop and support cooperation of large companies with SMEs, and among SMEs, in the field of training;
• Support the definition, implementation, and monitoring of concrete commitments under the Pact for Skills, such as: gathering skills intelligence; upskilling of low-skilled people; reskilling people for new tasks in their jobs, and reskilling of people from other sectors with skills transferable into the own sector.
Eligibility & Conditions
Conditions
1. Admissibility Conditions: Proposal page limit and layout
described in the call document.
Proposal page limits and layout: Page limit for the Part B Technical Description of the Application Form is 70 pages.
Layout as described in the Important Notice of the Part B Technical Description of the Application Form.
2. Eligible Countries
described 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: 18/12/2024
Deadline for submitting applications: 27 May 2025, 17:00 (Brussels time).
Evaluation period: June- September 2025.
Information to applicants: November 2025.
Signature of grant agreement: February 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, specifically Part C, Information for Applicants
Model Grant Agreements (MGA)
Additional documents:
Support & Resources
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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.
Latest Updates
Call ERASMUS-EDU-2025-PI-FORWARD has closed on 27/5/2025
689 proposals have been submitted.
The breakdown per topic is:
- ERASMUS-EDU-2025-PI-FORWARD-SCHOOL-BS: 89
- ERASMUS-EDU-2025-PI-FORWARD-VET-VE: 18
- ERASMUS-EDU-2025-PI-FORWARD-VET-QM: 42
- ERASMUS-EDU-2025-PI-FORWARD-ADULT-PS: 52
- ERASMUS-EDU-2025-PI-FORWARD-ADULT-CG: 167
- ERASMUS-EDU-2025-PI-FORWARD-DIGITAL-SC: 79
- ERASMUS-EDU-2025-PI-FORWARD-DIGITAL-AI: 215
- ERASMUS-EDU-2025-PI-FORWARD-DIGITAL-DM: 27
Evaluation results are expected to be communicated in November.