KA155 DiscoverEU Inclusion Action: the application, step by step

What it is

The DiscoverEU Inclusion Action lets one organisation organise DiscoverEU travels for young people with fewer opportunities aged 18 to 21, with one to five participants per travel and accompanying persons where needed. Each travel lasts 1 to 30 days and must take place in at least one country other than the one where it starts. The grant is built from a travel pass and unit costs, and the application is assessed against three scored criteria.

Who can apply

Any eligible participating organisation or group established in an EU Member State or a third country associated to the Programme: a non-profit organisation, association or NGO; a public body at local, regional or national level; a social enterprise; a profit-making body active in corporate social responsibility and with proven experience in the youth field, provided its involvement does not have a commercial purpose; or an informal group of at least four young people aged 18 to 30.

Organisation and participants

One participating organisation — there is no partnership. Each DiscoverEU travel has 1 to 5 participants; at most two accompanying persons per participant, when duly justified. The organisation can organise several travels during the project.

Fields

YOU

Duration

3 to 24 months. Each DiscoverEU travel lasts 1 to 30 days.

Funding

Not a lump sum: a travel pass of 7 travel days within one month, travel support where other transport is needed to reach the starting point, organisational support per participant, individual support per participant per day for at most 21 days, inclusion support, and real costs for exceptional costs. The Guide states no maximum grant per project.

Deadlines

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

How many applications

The same organisation (one OID) cannot be involved in more than 5 applications per deadline in this action, either as applicant or partner.

How it is scored

To be considered for funding an application must score at least 60 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 70 overall but 9 on quality of project management 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.

The form structure

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

1. 1.Context
2. 2.Participating organisations
3. 3.Project rationale
4. 4.Project details
5. 5.Project design
6. 6.Project summary
7. 7.Project budget
8. 8.Erasmus+ Youth Quality Standards
9. 9.Annexes
10. 10.Application conditions

How you write it in AvenEU

• ✦The form itself, with the real sections and every DiscoverEU travel the project plans — you write inside the structure the assessors will read, not a blank document.
• ✦EUri analyses each section against the criterion that actually scores it, using the correct maximum and the minimum that criterion must reach.
• ✦A unit-cost budget calculator for the activities you plan, on the Guide's rates for this action.
• ✦Export in the structure of the official form, section by section, for transfer into the submission system.