Details
- Status
- Open
- Publication date
- 27 January 2025
- Opening date
- Deadline model
- Single-stage
- Deadline date
- 27 May 2025, 17:00 (CEST)
- Funding programme
- Industrial Ecosystem
- Cross-sectoral
- Level of funding
- EU level
Description
Overview
Objectives
Projects under this priority will identify and test methods and mechanisms to improve guidance and counselling services to adults, with a particular focus on reaching out to and supporting workers in small and micro-enterprises, at all levels, including management. Ideally projects should devise approaches that have the potential of becoming mainstreamed.
Activities/actions supported
Main activities under this Topic could involve (non-exhaustive list):
- provision of coordinated services (in person or online) open to all adults and organisations (in particular SMEs and micro-enterprises) through ‘one-stop-shops', offering skills assessment, directing individuals (and groups of individuals) to tailor-made learning options, with validation of the acquired skills;
- improvement of the career management skills of individuals, to help them navigate smoothly through different learning and work opportunities,;
- support to employers, especially small and micro-enterprises, to identify which skills their enterprises will need and how they can support their employees to assess and acquire these skills;
- reinforcement of career guidance counsellors’ training and skills development so that they can support individuals to unlock their full potential;
- making use of skills intelligence and digital tools, including artificial intelligence, in career guidance to capitalise on new efficiencies and scale;
- or testing of such tools in combination with in-person guidance and counselling methods, on a sample of users.
Anticipated outcomes
Expected impacts include:
- higher participation rate of adults in lifelong learning;
- strategies on ways to improve career guidance and counselling to support adults to make informed choices about up- and reskilling opportunities and to improve their career management skills; action plans for career guidance and counselling solutions;
- models for enhanced career guidance, counselling and mentoring for the up- and reskilling of adults, especially for people without a functional level of basic skills and for workers in small and micro-enterprises; improved reflections on the specific up- and reskilling needs of SMEs and microenterprises;
- and availability of tried and tested tools that can be upscaled, to link automatised and in-person career guidance services.
Projects should result in effective structural collaboration frameworks where all actors involved share the responsibility for adult skills development.
Institution providing the funding
EACEA
Size of funding
EUR 4 000 000.
Conditions
Overview of eligibility criteria
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; and be established in one of the eligible countries (i.e.: Erasmus+ Programme Countries, EU Member States, or listed EEA countries and countries associated to the Erasmus+ Programme).
Higher education institutions (HEIs) established in Erasmus+ Programme Countries (see above) must be holders of the ECHE certificate (Erasmus Charter for Higher Education).
Organisations from third countries not associated to the Programme can only be involved as associated partners (not as beneficiaries and affiliated entities).
Overview of award criteria
Award criteria include: relevance (maximum 30 points); quality (maximum 40) points; and impact (maximum 30 points).
Procedures
Application procedures
Proposals must be submitted electronically via the Funding & Tenders Portal Electronic Submission System (accessible via the funding opportunity pages in the Calls for proposals section).
Application support available
FAQs on the Funding & Tender Opportunities Portal