KA120 Erasmus Accreditation in VET, School Education and Adult Education: the application, step by step

What it is

An Erasmus accreditation is not a project grant: an organisation in vocational education and training, school education or adult education applies with an Erasmus Plan and, if accredited, gains simplified access to Key Action 1 mobility funding. The Erasmus Plan covers between two and five years and between one and ten objectives, and the application has no budget. It is assessed against four scored criteria, separately for each of the three fields.

Who can apply

VET: organisations providing initial or continuing vocational education and training; local and regional public authorities, coordination bodies and other organisations with a role in VET; and companies and other public or private organisations hosting, training or otherwise working with learners and apprentices in VET. School education: schools providing general education at pre-primary, primary or secondary level, including organisations providing early childhood education and care, and local and regional public authorities, coordination bodies and other organisations with a role in school education. Adult education: organisations providing formal, informal and non-formal adult education, and local and regional public authorities, coordination bodies and other organisations with a role in adult education. Applicants must be established in an EU Member State or a third country associated to the Programme and have at least two years of relevant experience in the field of the application.

Individual or consortium

An organisation applies as an individual organisation or as the coordinator of a mobility consortium — a group of organisations from the same country implementing mobility activities as part of a joint Erasmus Plan. Consortium members do not need an Erasmus accreditation.

Fields

SCH · VET · ADU

Erasmus Plan and validity

The Erasmus Plan covers between two and five years. Each call for proposals sets the date from which the accreditations it awards are valid; they then run for the duration of the current programming period.

Funding

None at this stage: the accreditation carries no grant and the form has no budget. Accredited organisations gain simplified access to Key Action 1 funding through accredited mobility projects, applied for separately.

Deadlines

Deadlines are set in each year's call. Check the current deadline with your National Agency.

How many applications

An organisation can apply once in each of the three fields covered by this call: adult education, vocational education and training, and school education.

How it is scored

To be considered for funding an application must score at least 70 points out of 100. It must also score at least half the maximum on every single criterion, which is the minimum column above.

An application scoring 75 overall but 18 on Erasmus Plan: Objectives is rejected. Clearing the overall threshold is not enough on its own — one criterion below its minimum ends the application, however strong the rest is.

In case more than one application has the same score as the last one to be awarded, the maximum number of awarded accreditations will be increased to include all applications with that score.

The form structure

The official sections, in the order the form presents them.

1. 1.Context
2. 2.Applicant organisation
3. 3.Background
4. 4.Erasmus Plan: Objectives
5. 5.Erasmus Plan: Activities
6. 6.Erasmus quality standards
7. 7.Erasmus Plan: Management
8. 8.Annexes
9. 9.Application conditions

How you write it in AvenEU

• ✦The form itself, with the real sections of the Erasmus Plan — objectives, activities and management — in the official order.
• ✦EUri analyses each section against the accreditation's own four criteria, using the correct maximum and the minimum each must reach.
• ✦Export in the structure of the official form, section by section, for transfer into the submission system.