Deadline: 15-Mar-23
The European Commission (EC) is accepting proposals for its Partnerships for Innovation Forward-Looking Projects to identify, develop, test, and/or assess innovative (policy) approaches that have the potential of becoming mainstreamed, thus improving education and training systems.
Purpose of the Action
- Following the recent pandemic, the need for innovation in the education and training systems, as well as youth, has never been so great. Innovation in teaching and learning is crucial, at individual level as well as at institutional level. These innovative approaches should not only provide today’s and tomorrow’s workers with the appropriate skills for rapidly-changing labour markets, but should also arm today’s and tomorrow’s workforce with creativity and skills to confront the growing complexity of societal challenges that we all face such as climate change, the protection of bio-diversity, clean energy, public health, digitalization and automation, artificial intelligence, robotics and data analysis.
- This action will aim to foster innovation, creativity and participation, as well as social entrepreneurship in different fields of education and training, within sectors or across sectors and disciplines.
- Projects under Lot 2 address the VET sector. These projects support the implementation of the principles and objectives of the European Pillar of Social Rights Action Plan, the European Skills Agenda, the Council Recommendation on vocational education and training for sustainable competitiveness, social fairness and resilience and the Osnabrück Declaration on vocational education and training as an enabler of recovery and just transitions to digital and green economies.
Goals
The goal is to support transnational cooperation projects implementing a coherent and comprehensive set of sectoral or cross-sectoral activities that either:
- foster innovation in terms of scope, ground-breaking methods and practices, and/or
- ensure a transfer of innovation (across countries, policy sectors or target groups), thus ensuring at European level a sustainable exploitation of innovative project results and/or transferability into different contexts and audiences.
Priority Areas
Proposals submitted under Lot 2 must address one of the two following priorities that are detailed under ‘Setting up a project’:
- Priority 4: Micro-credentials for employability;
- Priority 5: Improving the attractiveness of Vocational Education and Training (VET) through partnerships and networks of VET providers.
Objectives
- The general objectives are as follows:
- Innovative initiatives with a strong impact on education and training reforms in specific strategic policy areas;
- Contributing to the strengthening of Europe’s innovation capacity by promoting innovation in education and training;
- Creating systemic change through fostering innovation at both practice and policy-level;
- Support forward-looking ideas focusing on key topics and priorities at EU level, with a clear potential to be mainstreamed in one or more sectors;
- As fully innovative, ground-breaking educational methods and practices and/or transfer of innovation: ensuring at EU level a sustainable exploitation of innovative project results and/or transferability into different contexts and audiences.
- The specific objectives include:
- Identifying, developing, testing and/or assessing innovative approaches that have the potential to be mainstreamed in order to improve education and training systems and improve the effectiveness of policies and practices in the field of education and training;
- Launching pilot actions to test solutions to present and future challenges with a view to kick-starting sustainable and systemic impact;
- Supporting transnational cooperation and mutual learning on forward-looking issues amongst key stakeholders and empowering them to develop innovative solutions and promote the transfer of those solutions in new settings, including capacity-building of relevant stakeholders.
Duration
For Lot 2 projects should normally last 36 months (extensions are possible, if duly justified and through an amendment).
Eligibility Criteria
The applicants (coordinator and full partners) must be:
- public or private organisations/entities that are active in the fields of education and training or in the world of work;
- established in an EU Member State or third country associated to the Programme (Countries which are in ongoing negotiations for an association agreement and where the agreement enters into force before grant signature are eligible).
- Higher education institutions established in an EU Member State or third country associated to the Programme must hold a valid Erasmus Charter for Higher Education (ECHE).
- Organisations from third countries not associated to the Programme can be involved as associated partners (not as coordinator or full partners).
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