We recently presented the Horizon Europe webinar and the first<\/a> official<\/strong> work plan under the program. But it is already time for a new update.<\/p>\n\n In fact, some of the most important documents related to another of the European Union’s “flagship programs” have just been published: Erasmus+, the flagship program in education, training, sports and youth mobility (and more)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n Again, this is a “prelaunch,” contingent on the approval (expected very soon, however) of the regulations that form its legal basis.<\/p>\n\n As always, you can keep up to date on this<\/a> and other major news about upcoming calls for proposals<\/strong> through CSVnet’s InfoBandi platform, which has always been associated with our Guide.<\/p>\n\n Let’s find out the main<\/strong> features<\/strong> together by going over the official announcement<\/a> a few days ago. The program is one of the most successful initiatives of the European Union, which has been accompanying the mobility and cooperation of young people and people of all ages active in learning for decades now.<\/p>\n\n Perhaps not everyone knows that:<\/p>\n\n By virtue of this outstanding history and its contribution to the European construction project, it will have a total funding of 28, 4 billion euros<\/strong>: almost double the amount of the previous programming period<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n It is not only “school”: it is also “discovering by traveling<\/a>,” sports<\/a>, European values<\/a> and democratic participation<\/a> of young people. It is the main pillar of<\/strong> one of the EU’s major priorities for the coming years, the realization of the European Education Area<\/a>, and contributes to other major EU policy axes: inclusion<\/strong>(the European Pillar of Social Rights<\/a>), collaboration with third countries<\/a>, the EU Youth Strategy<\/a>, Digital Transformation<\/a>, and the European “Green Deal.”<\/a> <\/p>\n\n As we already know for all programs<\/a>, the proposed Erasmus+ regulation<\/a>, the related European Parliament resolution<\/a>, all information on theprocess of the procedure<\/a> and updates on the development of the related debate<\/a> are available. These are documents that already give a basically final picture of the nature of the program (political agreement<\/a> was reached in December<\/a>). <\/p>\n\n In addition, Erasmus+’s own multiple information channels(website<\/a>, National Agencies<\/a>, EACEA<\/a>, etc.) regularly provide all the updates and tools needed to participate in the program.<\/p>\n\n Now, with the latest Erasmus+ documents officially released, we know even more: that is, practically everything<\/strong>. We have in particular<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n The main new features of the new Erasmus+ program are explained in a fact sheet<\/a>. We can summarize them as follows:<\/p>\n\n 1) <\/strong>Integration of a “blended approach” in higher education (online learning + group work + short periods abroad);<\/p>\n\n 2) <\/strong>Greater focus on vocational training (doubled allocation for “ErasmusPro”);<\/p>\n\n 3)<\/strong> Integration of the “DiscoverEU<\/a>” initiative (for discovery – by train – of European cultures, among other actions for youth participation);<\/p>\n\n 1)<\/strong> openness to a range of parternships at once broader (small-scale partnerships with simplified procedures), deeper and more innovative (large-scale pilot projects);<\/p>\n\n 2)<\/strong> greater development of old and new forms of “systemic” partnerships(European universities<\/a>, Centers of Professional Excellence<\/a>, Erasmus Teacher Academies<\/a>, opening of theJean Monnet Initiative<\/a> to schools and institutes, strategic role of sports);<\/p>\n\n 3)<\/strong> greater openness to the non-EU world in all areas (e.g., Erasmus Mundus<\/a>, European Youth Together<\/a>);<\/p>\n\n 1)<\/strong> through the official channels of the institutions in charge of program management(Erasmus+ website<\/a>, platform of funded projects<\/a>, National Agencies<\/a>, EACEA Agency<\/a>);<\/p>\n\n 2)<\/strong> through specific platforms dedicated to the main categories of beneficiaries(eTwinning<\/a> and School Education Gateway<\/a> for those working in education, EPALE<\/a> for adult education professionals, European Youth Portal<\/a> and Youthpass<\/a> for young people and youth organizations, OLS<\/a> for online language support, even an App dedicated<\/a> to the Erasmus program).<\/p>\n\n While waiting for the final formal touches, we really already have everything we need to plan<\/strong> our activity<\/strong> on Erasmus+<\/strong> throughout the year.<\/p>\n\n Along with this good news, we send to all potential beneficiaries (and to all of us) the wish that at last, later this year, the mobility and exchange activities that over more than three decades have contributed to the greatness, beauty and success of the Erasmus program can resume.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The new programming is approaching in quick steps: call schedules and the Erasmus+ program guide have just been released.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":31803,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[731,2199],"tags":[2320,2333],"class_list":["post-21127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archive-archive","category-archive-news","tag-news-en","tag-sector-youth-and-mobility"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euknow.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euknow.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euknow.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euknow.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euknow.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21127"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/euknow.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37200,"href":"https:\/\/euknow.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21127\/revisions\/37200"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euknow.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euknow.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euknow.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euknow.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Erasmus+: a great history and a great future<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n
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Erasmus+: what we already knew<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n
Erasmus+: what we know now<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n
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Best wishes to all for the launch of Erasmus+.<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n