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Partnership for Excellence - Centres of Vocational Excellence
Funding Program | Erasmus+ - Key Action 2 – Cooperation among Organisations and Institutions | |
Call number | ERASMUS-EDU-2023-PEX-COVE | |
deadlines | Opening 29.11.2022 | Deadline 08.06.2023 17:00 |
Estimated EU contribution per project | max. EU grant per project: € 4,000,000.00 | |
Link to the call | ec.europa.eu | |
Link to the submission | ec.europa.eu |
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short description | The initiative on Centres of Vocational Excellence (CoVE) aims to respond to this policy priority supporting reforms in the VET sector, ensuring high quality skills and competences that lead to quality employment and career-long opportunities, meeting the needs of an innovative, inclusive and sustainable economy. The CoVE initiative also supports the implementation of the European Green Deal, the new Digital Strategy, and the new Industrial and SME Strategies, as skills are key to their success. |
Call objectives | Centres of Vocational Excellence (CoVE) operate in a given local context, creating skills ecosystems for innovation, regional development, and social inclusion, while working with CoVEs in other countries through international collaborative networks. They establish a bottom-up approach to vocational excellence involving a wide range of local stakeholders enabling VET institutions to rapidly adapt skills provision to evolving economic and social needs. They provide opportunities for initial training of young people as well as the continuing up-skilling and re-skilling of adults, through flexible and timely offer of training that meets the needs of a dynamic labour market, in the context of the green and digital transitions. They act as catalysts for local business development and innovation, by working closely with companies (in particular SMEs) on applied research projects, creating knowledge and innovation hubs, as well as supporting entrepreneurial initiatives of their learners. The networks aim for "upward convergence" of VET excellence. They will be open for the involvement of countries with well-developed vocational excellence systems, as well as those in the process of developing similar approaches, aimed at exploring the full potential of VET institutions to play a proactive role in support of growth and innovation. This initiative introduces a "European dimension" to Vocational Excellence by supporting the implementation of EU VET policy and actions agreed with member states, social partners and VET providers. read more |
Expected effects and impacts | This action supports the gradual establishment and development of international collaborative networks of Centres of Vocational Excellence. Centres of Vocational Excellence will operate at two levels:
The networks will bring together existing CoVEs, or develop the Vocational Excellence model by linking partners from various countries, that intend to develop Vocational Excellence in their local context through international cooperation. They could contribute e.g. to the delivery phase of the New European Bauhaus initiative by collaborating with the communities involved in the local transformations fostered by the initiative. read more |
Expected results | This call will thus support projects bringing together local or regional partners from various countries developing a set of activities under three clusters; 1) Teaching and learning, 2) Cooperation and partnerships, and 3) Governance and Funding. CoVEs are intended for organisations providing vocational education and training, at any EQF levels from 3 to 8, including the upper-secondary level, the post-secondary non-tertiary level as well as the tertiary level (e.g. Universities of applied sciences, Polytechnic institutes, etc.). However, applications cannot include only activities that target learners at tertiary level; applications that focus on VET at post-secondary level (EQF levels 6 to 8) must include at least one other VET qualification level between EQF levels 3 to 5, as well as a strong work-based learning component. |
Regions / countries for funding | EU Member States, Overseas Countries and Territories (OCT) Island (Ísland), Liechtenstein, North Macedonia (Северна Македонија), Norway (Norge), Serbia (Srbija/Сpбија), Türkiye |
eligible entities | Education and training institution, Non-Profit Organisation (NPO) / Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), Other, Private institution, incl. private company (private for profit), Public Body (national, regional and local; incl. EGTCs), Research Institution incl. University, Small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) |
Mandatory partnership | Yes |
Project Partnership | The partnership must include at least 8 applicants (coordinator and full partners) from a minimum of 4 EU Member States or third countries associated to the Programme. Each EU Member State or third country associated to the Programme must include:
Further composition of the partnership should reflect the specific nature of the proposal. Organisations from third countries not associated to the Programme can also participate as full partners, affiliated entities or associated partners (not as coordinators), to the extent it is demonstrated that their participation brings an essential added value to the project. |
other eligibility criteria | The applicants (coordinator and full partners) must be:
Organisations from third countries not associated to the Programme may also participate but not as coordinator. They must be public or private organisations active in the field of vocational education and training or in the world of work. Exception: organisations from Belarus (Region 2) and the Russian Federation (Region 4) are not eligible to participate in this action. Participating organisations can be, for example (non-exhaustive list):
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Additional information
Topics |
Administration & Governance, Institutional Capacity & Cooperation, Agriculture & Forestry, Fishery, Food, Soil quality, Arts & Culture, Cultural Heritage, Tourism, Competitiveness of Enterprises, Employment/Labour Market, SME & entrepreneurship, Demographic Change, European Citizenship, Migration, Digitalisation, Digital Society, ICT, Education & Training, Children & Youth, Media, Energy Efficiency, Renewable Energy , Equal Rights, Human Rights, People with Disabilities, Social Inclusion, Health, Social Services, Sports, Mobility & Transport, Rural & Urban Development/Planning |
Relevance for EU Macro-Region | EUSAIR - EU Strategy for the Adriatic and Ionian Region, EUSALP - EU Strategy for the Alpine Space, EUSBSR - EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region, EUSDR - EU Strategy for the Danube Region |
UN Sustainable Development Goals (UN-SDGs) |
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project duration | 48 months |
Additional Information | Proposals must be complete and contain all the requested information and all required annexes and supporting documents:
Applications are limited to
For actions managed by the Erasmus+ National Agencies, applications must be submitted electronically via the forms available in the Erasmus+ website and the websites of the Erasmus+ National Agencies. |
Call documents | Erasmus+ Programmleitfaden 2023 - DE (5553kB) |
Contact | European Education and Culture Executive Agency Website Erasmus+ National Agencies Website |
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