Call: Structured Dialogue

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

This Action promotes the active participation of young people in democratic life and fosters debate around topics centred on the themes and priorities set by the Structured Dialogue and the renewed political framework in the youth field. Structured Dialogue is the name used for discussions between young people and youth policy-makers in order to obtain results which are useful for policy-making. The debate is structured around priorities and timing and foresees events where young people discuss the agreed themes among themselves and with policy-makers, youth experts and representatives of public authorities in charge of youth. More information about Structured Dialogue is available on the European Commission's website. 

Any participating organisation established in a Programme Country can be the applicant. In case of projects realised by two or more participating organisations, one of the organisations applies on behalf of all participating organisations involved in the project. 

• Transnational/International meetings: the activity must involve at least two participating organisations from at least two different countries, of which at least one is a Programme Country.
• National meetings: the activity involves at least one organisation from a Programme Country. 

Applicants have to submit their grant application by the following dates:

• 1 February at 12:00 (midday Brussels time) for projects starting between 1 May and 30 September of the same year;
• 26 April at 12:00 (midday Brussels time) for projects starting between 1 August and 31 December of the same year;
• 4 October at 12:00 (midday Brussels time) for projects starting between 1 January and 31 May of the following year.  

Maximum grant awarded per project for a Structured Dialogue meeting: 50 000 €

• For travel distances between 10 and 99 KM: 20 € per participant 

• For travel distances between 100 and 499 KM: 80 € per participant  
• For travel distances between 500 and 1999 KM: 170 € per participant 
• For travel distances between 2000 and 2999 KM: 270 € per participant 
• For travel distances between 3000 and 3999 KM: 400 € per participant 
• For travel distances between 4000 and 7999 KM: 620 €  per participant 
• For travel distances of 8000 KM or more: 830 € per participant 

Application is done through the National Agency of the country in which the applicant organisation is established.