Erasmus Charter for Higher Education

No, there is no need to sign anything in the application form. By submitting the application, the applicant commits to the ECHE principles, as indicated in the ‘declarations’ part of the application form Part B.

In part B, in the ‘HEI profile’ table, in the part related to the Participation in EU and international education and training projects (ongoing academic year), one should include information on the current academic year (and not 2019-20).

The contact persons indicated in the application form. The primary coordinator contact can add or replace contact persons, in the proposal page, via ’Action’, ’Manage Consortium’. If the primary coordinator contact person changes, the institution should contact EACEA-ECHE@ec.europa.eu.

Higher Education Institutions that were already awarded the ECHE in 2020 or later should no longer apply. ECHEs awarded from 2020 onwards are valid until the end of the current Erasmus+ Programme (2021-27).

Consortia are not eligible for the Erasmus Charter Call. The Erasmus Charter is an accreditation, which can only be awarded to individual Higher Education Institutions.

This mention applied to the light procedure in last year’s Call. This year there is only one TOPIC, the Full Procedure. Therefore, all parts of the application form should be completed.

Applicants only need to declare their previous applications for the Erasmus Charter submitted during the last 2 years. No need to list proposals submitted under other Programmes.

Only Part B needs to be uploaded. There are no other annexes. You will need to download Part B from the first page where you create the proposal on the left side of the screen. Then, complete the document, convert it in a pdf (please note that special characters are not supported by the system and therefore have to be removed from the name of the document before saving) and finally, upload it as last step of the application.

Being a public body is not a requirement for applying for the ECHE. Therefore this warning can be disregarded, and the proposal submitted.

For more information about errors and warnings found by the system when submitting a proposal, please see this other FAQ.

The application form (both Part A and B) can be written in any of the 24 EU languages. Only the EPS (Part B section 1.2.) needs to be translated into English, French or German if it is not written in one of these languages.

Please remember to select the language of your application in Part A of the application form.

A notification will be sent by email to the contact persons indicated in the application form (Part A). The letter with the results, as well as the evaluation report will be available in the Funding and Tender Opportunities Portal, in the page of the ECHE proposal, accessibly via ’My proposals’. For successful applicants, the ECHE Certificate will be also uploaded in there.

Only 1: the Full Procedure. All parts of the application form Part B should be filled in. The "n/a for Topic 1" mention should be ignored.

In the ‘HEI profile’ table, in the part related to Staff working for Erasmus+ programme activities, the following information should be specified:

1. Number of staff working in projects the HEI is coordinating;

2. Number of staff working in projects the HEI is a partner in.

In part B, under ‘IMPLEMENTATION OF THE ECHE PRINCIPLES' - 'ECHE fundamental principles’, the link to the ECTS users’ guide does not work. The page was moved to: ECTS users' guide 2015 | European Education Area (europa.eu).