The Digital Education Action Plan 2021-2027 sets the EU strategic policy framework for digital transformation in education and training. It is a call to action for stronger cooperation at European level to learn from the COVID-19 crisis and to make education and training systems fit for the digital age.

Priorities

-Joining forces to reskill workers

-Supporting the Pact for Skills

Eligible applicants must be

• Legal entities (public or private bodies) active in the fields of education and training, research and innovation or in the world of work;
• Established in EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs)), listed EEA countries and countries associated to the Erasmus+ Programme (list of participating countries)
• For the priority ‘Supporting the Pact for Skills’, in order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must be registered partners of existing Pact for Skills regional partnerships.

Consortium composition

Proposals must be submitted by a consortium of at least 3 applicants (beneficiaries, not affiliated entities), from a minimum of 3 EU Member States or third countries associated to the Programme.

Eligible activities

• Development and testing of training materials, innovative training methods and the establishment of “reskilling labs”, where the public and the private sector
• jointly design content for skills development, especially in growing sectors where
• shortages exist;
• Mobilising employers to proactively reskill their employees and running outreach campaigns by companies, training providers, public and private organisations, to mobilise and include more in-transition-workers, unemployed or inactive people from sectors in decline;
• Develop and support governance structures or arrangements connecting members within the same regional partnership, including regional and/or local authorities;
• Support the definition, implementation, and monitoring of concrete commitments of a regional partnership, such as gathering skills intelligence, upskilling of low-skilled people, reskilling people for new tasks.

And more.

Duration

Projects should normally range between 24 and 36 months.

Funding

EUR 10 000 000

Deadline: 4 June 2024, 17.00 CET (Brussels)

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