Call: Civil Society Cooperation in the field of Youth

Erasmus+ will provide opportunities for over 4 million Europeans to study, train, gain work experience and volunteer abroad.

Erasmus+ will support transnational partnerships among Education, Training, and Youth institutions and organisations to foster cooperation and bridge the worlds of Education and work in order to tackle the skills gaps we are facing in Europe.

It will also support national efforts to modernise Education, Training, and Youth systems. In the field of Sport, there will be support for grassroots projects and cross-border challenges such as combating match-fixing, doping, violence and racism.

Erasmus+ brings together seven existing EU programmes in the fields of Education, Training, and Youth; it will for the first time provide support for Sport. As an integrated programme, Erasmus+ offers more opportunities for cooperation across the Education, Training, Youth, and Sport sectors and is easier to access than its predecessors, with simplified funding rules.

This Key Action supports initiatives for policy innovation aimed to develop new policies or prepare their implementation. They include specific calls for proposals managed by the Executive Agency on:

• Knowledge in the fields of education, training and youth, involving evidence gathering, analysis and peer learning

• forward-looking cooperation projects on policy development

• European policy experimentations, led by high-level public authorities and involving field trials in several countries based on sound evaluation methods.

• Cooperation with international organisations, such as the OECD and the Council of Europe
• Promote dialogue with stakeholders and support to programmes and policies within public authorities, providers and stakeholders in the fields of education, vocational training and youth

• raise stakeholder awareness of European policy agenda in the field of youth, in particular the EU Youth Strategy,
• increase stakeholder commitment and cooperation with public authorities for the implementation of policies and reforms in the field of youth, such as of the country-specific recommendations issued in the framework of the European semester,
• boost stakeholder participation in the field of youth,
• boost stakeholder involvement in the dissemination of policy and programme actions and results and of good practice among their membership and beyond.

• operate through a formally recognised structure, composed of (a) European body/secretariat (the applicant) legally established for at least 1 year in an eligible country on the date of submission of the application and (b) national organisations/branches in at least 12 eligible countries having a statutory link with the European body/secretariat,
• be active in the field of youth and run activities that support the implementation of the fields of action of the EU Youth Strategy,
• involve young people in the management and governance of the organisation. 

• be composed of legally autonomous non-profit organisations active in the field of youth and running activities that support the implementation of the fields of action of the EU Youth Strategy,
• operate through an informal governance setting, composed of (a) an organisation legally established for at least 1 year on the date of submission of the application in an eligible country with functions of coordination of and support to the network at European level (the applicant); and (b) other organisations established in at least 12 eligible countries,
• involve young people in the management and governance of the network.

• 3 200 000 € — reserved for beneficiaries who signed the Framework Partnership Agreements Civil Society Cooperation in the field of Youth in 2015 and therefore not available for this call,
• 600 000 € — available for applicants submitting proposals for annual operating grant under the present Call. 

• bodies under category 1 (ENGOs) exclusively dedicated to youth will account for about 70 % of the budget available,
• bodies under category 1 (ENGOs) having a broader scope but including a section dedicated to youth will account for about 10 % of the budget available,
• bodies under category 2 (EU-wide networks) exclusively dedicated to youth will account for about 20 % of the budget available.