Forward Looking Projects Topic 4: Adult Learning: Support to the Pact for Skills

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

Projects should implement the following activities:

• develop and support governance structures and cooperation tools, connecting members of the Pact for Skills; 
• develop and support cooperation of large companies with SMEs, and among SMEs, in the field of training;
• support the definition, implementation, and monitoring of concrete commitments under the Pact for Skills (e.g. gathering skills intelligence; upskilling of low-skilled people; reskilling people for new tasks in their jobs; or reskilling of people from other sectors with skills transferable into their own sector).

Anticipated outcomes

Projects will reinforce cooperation between individual registered members of the Pact for Skills and between registered members of the various partnerships under the Pact for Skills, resulting in better skills intelligence and effective upskilling and reskilling of people in work and of people who become employable. The projects will improve training provision along value chains within the Pact, particularly for SMEs.

Institution providing the funding

EACEA

Size of funding

EUR 4 000 000

Conditions

Overview of eligibility criteria

To be eligible,  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 registered members of the Pact for skills;
• be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.: Erasmus+ Programme Countries, EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs)), or 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).

Organisations from third countries not associated to the Programme can only be involved as associated partners (not as beneficiaries and affiliated entities).

Beneficiaries and affiliated entities must register in the Participant Register — before submitting the proposal — and will have to be validated by the Central Validation Service (REA Validation). For the validation, they will be requested to upload documents showing legal status and origin. Please note that the registration in the Participant Register is completely separate from the registration as a member of the Pact for Skills.

Other entities may participate in other consortium roles, such as associated partners, subcontractors, third parties giving in-kind contributions, etc.

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 opportunitity pages in the Calls for proposals section).

Application support available

Funding and tenders portal FAQs: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/s…

Useful links

Link to funding opportunity

Link to the programme for more info