KA240 European Partnerships for School Development: the application, step by step

What it is

European Partnerships for School Development fund cross-border cooperation between school authorities and the schools they are responsible for, aimed at improving the quality of learning and teaching and at building capacity for cooperation across school education systems. They are larger and longer than Cooperation Partnerships, run on a single fixed lump sum over three years, and are built around a two-tier partnership of authorities and schools. Impact is the dominant assessment concern rather than one criterion among equals.

Who can apply

A local or regional school authority, or a school coordination body, established in an EU Member State or a third country associated to the Programme. The coordinator may coordinate only one application per deadline.

Minimum partnership

At least six participating organisations. In the coordinator's country and in at least one other country there must be at least one school authority or coordination body and at least two schools. Eligible partners are schools providing general education at pre-primary, primary or secondary level (including early childhood education and care), local and regional school authorities or school coordination bodies, and associations of teachers, school leaders and school education staff, parent associations and other stakeholders in the school education system.

Fields

SCH

Duration

36 months.

Lump sum

€400,000 — one fixed lump sum, divided across the work packages and the organisations.

Deadlines

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

How many applications

An organisation can coordinate only one application per deadline.

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.

The form structure

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

1. 1.Context
2. 2.Participating organisations
   • The applicant and the partner organisations — the two-tier split between school authorities and schools
3. 3.Relevance
   • Three questions, plus a selection of up to three topics
4. 4.Impact
   • Five questions
5. 5.Partnership and cooperation arrangements
   • Five questions
6. 6.Project design
   • WP1 — Project management: five questions
   • Content work packages: four questions each, up to ten of them
   • Activities within each content work package: three written fields each
   • A final 'Plan for long-term impact' work package, always last: four questions
   • Budget, computed per work package rather than written
7. 7.Project summary
   • Objectives
   • Implementation
   • Results
   • An English translation of the three
8. 8.Annexes
9. 9.Application conditions

How you write it in AvenEU

• ✦The form itself, with the real sections, including the fixed WP1 and the 'Plan for long-term impact' work package that always comes last.
• ✦EUri analyses each section against the criterion that actually scores it, using the correct maximum and the minimum that criterion must reach.
• ✦A budget tool for the €400,000 lump sum: an amount per work package and its split between the organisations, checked against the Guide's 20% ceiling on project management.
• ✦Partner suggestions from Erasmus+ data, filtered to the countries the action admits.
• ✦Export in the structure of the official form, section by section, for transfer into the submission system.