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Erasmus+ is the EU funding programme for education, training, youth and sport for the period 2021-2027. Read more about ERASMUS+ here.
This call aims to strengthen the quality, relevance and attractiveness of VET by supporting joint developments.
The specific objective of the Topic is to support the development and delivery of joint VET qualifications and/or modules that are part of qualifications, or the improvement of existing ones, thus facilitating the mutual recognition of qualifications and learning outcomes and contributing to removing barriers to work and study mobility within the EU. The joint qualifications and/or modules will include a work-based learning component and a mobility window for a certain number of VET learners enrolled in programmes with vocational orientation at ISCED level 3 or 4. Furthermore they are aimed at creating rotation mobility schemes enabling exchanges among the project partners to ensure the mutual automatic recognition of the joint VET qualifications and/or modules among the participating organisations.
Joint VET qualifications and modules have the potential to address common emerging and fast changing skills needs in various sectors and contribute to addressing labour shortages in the EU. Moreover, they can help remove barriers to internal mobility and the single market, while helping reduce persistent unemployment in some regions and contribute to reaching the VET mobility target set in the Council Recommendation on Europe on the Move.Applicants could base the development of the transnational joint qualifications/modules on existing evidence on the emerging and fast changing skills needs for concrete professions (including using results of Blueprint projects, EU skills academies, Centres of Vocational Excellence (CoVEs), EU sectoral strategies, etc.) or develop such evidenceas part of the projects.
Joint qualification (or module) means that the same learning outcomes are pursued in the programmes of the participating entities and that the qualification is part of the register of the officially recognized national or regional qualifications in at least one of the EU countries.
Projects should implement all the activities listed below:
• Development of joint transnational qualifications and/or modules [based on the identified skills needs] - the qualifications and/or modules can target a certain trade or can develop multi-disciplinary content, they should not only include jobspecific skills, but also content related to basic skills and transversal competences;
• Test the newly developed or adopted qualification and/or modules through exchanges of teachers and trainers among project partners;
• Deploy the joint qualifications and/or modules in a mobility activity of VET learners to be organised on a rotation principle among the project partners; integrate the joint training module(s) in the VET programme curricula (for example as a mobility window) and cooperate with qualification authority(ies) on this matter;
• Certify (national or regional certification rules and Europass Mobility using the European Digital Credentials for Learning infrastructure) and automatically recognise the learning outcomes of the mobility period abroad of the participants.
Additional activities are possible, for example the joint development or adaption of digitalised learning and training content and/or assessment (including using results of Blueprint projects, EU skills academies, CoVEs). Projects could cover, as relevant, shortage occupations as listed in the Annex of the Commission proposal for the Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing an EU Talent Pool.
In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must:
• be legal entities (public or private bodies) active in the fields of education and training, research and innovation or in the world of work.
• be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.:
− Erasmus+ Programme Countries: EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs)) or non-EU countries: listed EEA countries and countries associated to the Erasmus+ Programme (list of participating countries)
• for higher education institutions (HEIs) established in Erasmus+ Programme Countries (see above): be holders of the ECHE certificate (Erasmus Charter for Higher Education).
Proposals must be submitted by a consortium of at least 3 applicants (beneficiaries, not affiliated entities), from a minimum of 3 EU Member States or third countries associated to the Programme.
At least 2 applicants (beneficiary, not affiliated entity) must be a VET provider offering qualifications programmes at EQF ISCED level 3-4.
Projects should normally range between 24 and 36 months.
Project budget (maximum grant amount): EUR 1 000 000 per project.
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