Alliances for Innovation - Lot 2: Alliances for Sectoral Cooperation on Skills (implementing the ‘Blueprint’)

Overview

Objectives

The overall objective of this call is to provide support to the Large-scale Skills Partnerships (LSPs) established under the Pact for Skills to work towards their commitments under the Pact. To this end, the Alliances for Sectoral Cooperation on Skills  provide LSPs with support to develop sector skills strategies, as well as revise and develop  job profiles and  related training programmes.

More specifically, these Alliances aim to create new strategic approaches and promote cooperation for concrete skills development solutions by gathering sectoral skills intelligence, designing sectoral skills strategies, reviewing and developing occupational profiles and vocational programmes related to these occupations and setting up a long-term action plan for the local and regional roll-out of their results.

The Alliances are be implemented across all the 14 industrial ecosystems identified in the New Industrial Strategy for Europe and covered by the Pact for Skills.

Activities/actions supported

Activities to be developed by the Alliances include:

• sectoral skills strategies, including a clear set of activities, milestones and well-defined objectives to match demand and supply of skills to support the overall implementation of ecosystem-based LSPs under the Pact for Skills.
• design and delivery of transnational education & training content, as well as teaching and training methodologies, for quick takeup at regional and local level and for new occupations that are emerging.

In addition, projects should address urgent skills needs in occupations in an industrial ecosystem resulting from the digital and green transition within the first year. Throughout the lifespan, projects should then work on: developing occupational profiles and training content for changing and emerging occupational profiles; delivering the ‘core’ curricula and training programmes; and designing a long-term action plan for the progressive roll-out of project deliverables after the project has finished.

Proposals must be focused on a single industrial ecosystem, either:

• not covered by an ongoing Blueprint, or
• already covered by an existing Blueprint (in this case, proposals must address different areas)

Anticipated outcomes

The deliverables of Alliances for Sectoral Cooperation on Skills (i.e. sectoral skills intelligence, skills strategies, occupational profiles, training programmes, and long-term planning)  are supposed to contribute to the work of the LSPs under the Pact and support their long-term sustainability.

Institution providing the funding

EACEA

Size of funding

EUR 4 000 000 000 (for a 4 year project)

Conditions

Overview of eligibility criteria

Applicants to this call must be registered members of the Pact for Skills.

In addition, applicants must be public or private organisations legally established in an EU Member State or third country associated to the Erasmus+ programme.

Furthemore, Alliances for Sectoral Cooperation on Skills must cover at least 8 EU Member States or third countries associated to the Erasmus+ Programme and involve at least 12 applicants (beneficiaries, not affiliated entities). The consortium must include:

• at least 5 labour market actors (e.g. enterprises or companies, or representative intermediary organisations, such as chambers, trade unions or trade associations)
• at least 5 education and training providers (VET and HEIs), and a minimum of 1 HE institution and 1 VET provider

Affiliated entities and associated partners do not count towards the minimum eligibility criteria for the consortium composition and cannot be coordinators.

For further details, please check the text of the call (link below).

Overview of award criteria

Award criteria are as follows:

• Relevance (up to 25 points), including relevance to EU policy and initiatives as well as EU values, responsiveness to needs analysis, integration of digital/green/resilience skills
• Quality of the project design and implementation (up to 30 points), including choerent and comprehensive activities, clear stucture and methodologies, solid management arrangments, effective budgets
• Quality of the partnership and the cooperation arrangements (up to 25 points), including involvement of registered members of the Pact, involvement of different stakeholder groups and high level of representativeness, solid consortium coordination
• Impact (up to 20 points), including clear result dissemination strategy, sustainability of results

The minimum threshold for proposals to be considered is 70 points out of 100.

Procedures

Application procedures

Apply to the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) via the EU Funding & Tenders Portal. Call ID Lot 2: ERASMUS-EDU-2025-PI-ALL-INNO-BLUEPRINT

Application support available

For more information, please check the text of the call (see below) as well as the Erasmus+ Programme Guide.

Useful links

Link to funding opportunity

Link to the programme for more info