European Universities

Objective

European Universities’ main objectives are to further develop institutionalised cooperation, making it systemic, structural and sustainable and to increase quality, performance and international competitiveness of European higher education institutions. In line with the vision for a European Education Area, these alliances intend to achieve the following aims: As such, European Universities aim at achieving the following main objectives :

• Promote common European values as enshrined in article 2 of the Treaty on European Union and a strengthened European identity by bringing together a new generation of Europeans who are able to cooperate and work within different European and global cultures, in different languages, and across borders, sectors and academic disciplines.
• Reach a substantial leap in quality, performance, attractiveness and international competitiveness and enable deep institutional transformation of involved European higher education institutions and contribute to the European knowledge economy, employment, creativity, culture and welfare by making best use of innovative pedagogies and striving to make the knowledge square a reality. European Universities will be key drivers to boost the quality of higher education and where possible to strengthen its links to the research and innovation landscape in Europe and its outreach towards the society and economy.

This call for proposals will support alliances of higher education institutions demonstrating an existing deep institutional transnational cooperation, including - but not limited to - the European Universities alliances previously funded under the 2023 Erasmus+ call for proposals (ERASMUS-EDU-2023-EUR-UNIV), taking their cooperation to the next level and concretely materialising their long-term strategies, in line with the ambitious vision of the European Universities initiative as described in this call. The Erasmus+ funding period for the alliances selected under this call will be of 2 years.

Type of action: ERASMUS Lump Sum Grants

Programme period: 2021 - 2027

Priorities: DigitalAgenda, AI

"> Conditions

1. Admissibility conditions: Proposal page limit and layout

described in the call document .

Proposal page limits and layout: described in Part B of the Application Form available in the Submission System.

2. Eligible countries

described in the call document .

3. Other eligibility conditions

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4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion

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5a. Evaluation and award: Submission and evaluation processes

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5b. Evaluation and award: Award criteria, scoring and thresholds

Evaluation criteria, scoring, threshold and process are described in the call document

5c. Evaluation and award: Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement

described in the call document .

Publication of the call: OCTOBER, 29 2026.

Deadline for submitting applications: MARCH, 4 2027 17:00 (Brussels time).

Evaluation period: MARCH-JULY 2027.

Information to applicants: JULY-AUGUST 2027.

Signature of grant agreement: OCTOBER-NOVEMBER 2027.

6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants

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Call document and annexes:

call document Application form templates Standard application form (ERASMUS BB and LSII) Detailed budget table (ERASMUS LSII) Guidance ERASMUS Programme Guide Model Grant Agreements (MGA) ERASMUS MGA — Multi & Mono

Additional documents:

ERASMUS+ Work Programme ERASMUS Regulation 2021/817 EU Financial Regulation 2024/2509 Rules for Legal Entity Validation, LEAR Appointment and Financial Capacity Assessm