On Monday 13 January, the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) published a set of resources relating to Alliances for Innovation, for which two calls for proposals, opened on 5 December last year, are underway until 6 March.
The EACEA sets out the objectives and eligibility criteria for these partnerships, which are part of the Erasmus+ programme and are designed to strengthen the European Union’s capacity for innovation through cooperation between higher education and training, including research.
It is also about strengthening the supply of new skills and addressing skills mismatches by designing and creating new higher education and vocational education and training programmes, supporting the development of a sense of initiative and entrepreneurship in the EU and implementing a range of sectoral or cross-sectoral activities.
The eligibility criteria (https://aeur.eu/f/f17 ) identify a number of potential participants, including higher education institutions, vocational education and training institutions (initial or continuing), companies and private sector organisations, research bodies, regional and local governments, as well as socio-economic organisations and civil society players.
The calls are divided into different lots: ‘Alliances for Education and Enterprises (https://aeur.eu/f/f16 ) and ‘Alliances for Sectoral Cooperation on Skills’ (https://aeur.eu/f/f18 ), which will receive €30 million and €32 million respectively.
For more information: https://aeur.eu/f/f15 (Original version in French by Nithya Paquiry)