Alliances For Stem Skills Foundries
ERASMUS Lump Sum Grants
Basic Information
- Identifier
- ERASMUS-EDU-2026-PI-ALL-INNO-STEM
- Programme
- Partnerships for Innovation - Alliances for Innovation
- Programme Period
- 2021 - 2027
- Status
- Open (31094502)
- Opening Date
- December 4, 2025
- Deadline
- March 10, 2026
- Deadline Model
- single-stage
- Budget
- €67,000,000
- Min Grant Amount
- –
- Max Grant Amount
- –
- Expected Number of Grants
- –
- Keywords
- ERASMUS-EDU-2026-PI-ALL-INNO-STEMERASMUS-EDU-2026-PI-ALL-INNOCapacity of VET providersEngineeringEntrepreneurshipHigher educationMathematicsScienceVETVET teachersentrepreneurial skillsinnovation in educationtechnology gap
Description
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.
Eligibility & Conditions
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
Model Grant Agreements (MGA)
Additional documents:
Frequently Asked Questions About Alliances For Stem Skills Foundries
Support & Resources
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.