European Universities - Community of practice

Overview

Objectives

The European Universities initiative is pivotal to achieving the ambitious vision of an innovative, globally compatitive and attractive European Education Area by 2025. This call aims to establish a Community of Practice (CoP) for European University alliances that fosters the sharing of best practice, collaboration, and the sharing of results. This aims to achieve common objectives and enhance the knowledge, skills, and effectiveness of the alliances for the greater benefit of the wider higher education sector.

Activities/actions supported

The activities supported under this call fall under two separate categories. 

1. Ensure closer cooperation between the existing and future European Universities alliances and other similar long-standing institutionalized cooperation models. Within this category, actions include setting up and interactive forum and working groups, initiating discussions on challenges or emerging trends, encouraging alliances to share ideas, experiences and perspectives, and establishing a knowledge repository and facilitating knowledge-sharing between alliances.
2. Promote and support dissemination of results between alliances and to the wider higher education sector, and enhance the transferability and uptake of the results by relevant end-users. Within this category, actions include encouraging the sharing of good practices, success stories and lessons learned, organizing events on the European Universities alliances, setting up an information portal on community of practice, and sharing insights from the above activities with the Commission and the broader community.

Anticipated outcomes

The community of practice aims to:

• Support European University alliances in fostering deeper transnational cooperation.
• Stimulate new cooperative approaches for synergies within the European Universities community and beyond.
• Expand the reach of outcomes from European University alliances for the wider higher education sector.
• Improve the transferability and uptake of results.
• Address shared challenges and leverage the experience of European University alliances.

Institution providing the funding

European Commission

Size of funding

EUR 189 200 000

Conditions

Overview of eligibility criteria

In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must:

• be legal entities (public or private bodies)
• be established in one of the eligible countries, EU Member States, and non-EU countries associated to Erasmus+ and Western Balkan countries not associated.

Overview of award criteria

The award criteria are the following: 

• Relevance (25 points)
• Quality (50 points)
• Impact (25 points)

Maximum points: 100 points. Overall threshold: 80 points.

Procedures

Application procedures

All proposals must be submitted electronically via the Funders & Tenders Portal electronic submission system (accessible via the topic page in the Search Funding & Tenders section). Paper submissions are NOT possible.
Proposals must be complete and contain all the requested information and all required annexes and supporting documents:

• Application Form Part A — contains administrative information about the participants and the summarised budget for the project 
• Application Form Part B — contains the technical description of the project
• Part C (to be filled in directly online) containing additional project data 
• mandatory annexes and supporting documents.

Application support available

For help related to this call, please contact: EACEA-EUROPEAN-UNIVERSITIESec [dot] europa [dot] eu (EACEA-EUROPEAN-UNIVERSITIES[at]ec[dot]europa[dot]eu).

Link to funding opportunity

Link to the programme for more info