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Erasmus+ERASMUS Lump Sum Grants

Topic 5: Adult learning: Improving career guidance to support adults’ participation in training

This round is closed. Synced from the EU Funding & Tenders Portal on 9 November 2026.

ApplicationsLast round closed

Last deadline27 May 2025

Total budget€4M

Opens18 December 2024

Deadline modelsingle-stage

Call IDERASMUS-EDU-2025-PI-FORWARD

On this page · 6 sections→

01Who won
02Who wins calls like this
03Call scope
04Eligibility & conditions
05Official FAQs
06Official source

Who won this call

Projects the EU funded under this call, with the organisation that led each one.

CANCAN – Counselling and career guidance for Adults to value Neurodiversity
Led by Forma.azione SRL · Italy · 2026 · Official record ↗
€970k
EU FoodPactEU FOODPACT: Accelerating Sustainability in the Agri-Food Sector through Community Food Education Hubs
Led by Cámara Oficial de Comercio Industria Servicios y Navegación de Reus · Spain · 2026 · Official record ↗
€813k
STEPSTEP: Support Transition & Empower Performers Improving Career Guidance and Lifelong Learning for Adult Dancers in Physically Demanding and Hazardous Professions
Led by Koinoniki Synetairistiki Epicheirisi Syllogikis Kai Koinonikis Ofeleias Roes Cooperativa · Greece · 2026 · Official record ↗
€488k
ROOTROOT - Resources for Orientation and Occupational Transition, Enhancing Career Guidance to Boost Adult Participation in Training
Led by Instituto Pedro Nunes Associacao Para A Inovacao e Desenvolvimento Em Ciencia e Tecnologia · Portugal · 2026 · Official record ↗
€1000k
UpSkillOneUpSkillOne: One-Stop Career Guidance and Training for Micro-SME Workers in Regional Europe
Led by Parco Scientifico Tecnologico Kilometro Rosso SpA · Italy · 2026 · Official record ↗
€998k

Who wins calls like this

Based on projects the EU funded on the same subject in this programme.

Who leads the winning projects

Large companies60%
SMEs20%
Public bodies20%

€970ktypical EU grant per project

Most common lead countriesItaly, Greece, Spain, Portugal

Organisations that keep winning here

Each one links to its EU funding record and the partners it works with: a starting list for building a consortium.

What this call funds

Scope:Projects under this priority will identify and test methods and mechanisms to improve guidance and counselling services to adults, with a particular focus on reaching out to and supporting workers in small and micro-enterprises, at all levels, including management. Ideally projects should devise approaches that have the potential of becoming mainstreamed.

Projects should support guidance services:

Providing coordinated services offering skills assessment, directing individuals to tailor-made learning options, with validation of the acquired skills.
Improving the career management skills of individuals.
Making use of skills intelligence and digital tools, including artificial intelligence, in career guidance to capitalise on new efficiencies and scale.
Supporting employers to identify which skills their enterprises will need and how they can support their employees to assess and acquire these skills.
Reinforcing career guidance counsellors’ training and competence development so that they can support individuals to unlock their full potential.

Eligibility & conditions+

Conditions

1. Admissibility Conditions: Proposal page limit and layout

described in the call document.

Proposal page limits and layout: Page limit for the Part B Technical Description of the Application Form is 70 pages.

Layout as described in the Important Notice of the Part B Technical Description of the Application Form.

2. Eligible Countries

described in the call document.

3. Other Eligible Conditions

described in the call document.

4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion

described in the call document.

5a. Evaluation and award: Submission and evaluation processes

described in the call document.

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: 18/12/2024

Deadline for submitting applications: 27 May 2025, 17:00 (Brussels time).

Evaluation period: June- September 2025.

Information to applicants: November 2025.

Signature of grant agreement: February 2026.

6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants

n/a

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, specifically Part C, Information for Applicants

Model Grant Agreements (MGA)

Lump Sum MGA

Additional documents:

ERASMUS+ Work Programme

ERASMUS Regulation 2021/817

EU Financial Regulation 2024/2509

Rules for Legal Entity Validation, LEAR Appointment and Financial Capacity Assessment

EU Grants AGA — Annotated Model Grant Agreement

How to manage your lump sum grants

Funding & Tenders Portal Online Manual 

Funding & Tenders Portal Terms and Conditions 

Funding & Tenders Portal Privacy Statement

Official FAQs

Applicants asked the EU 10 questions about this call and the EU published the answers. They clarify the call documents but do not replace them.

Who can apply

What is the current situation regarding associated entities from Russia and Belarus for participation in this call?Organisations from Belarus and the Russian Federation are not eligible to participate in this action (see further information about entities subject to EU restrictive…

Organisations from Belarus and the Russian Federation are not eligible to participate in this action (see further information about entities subject to EU restrictive measures in the Call document under Chapter 6 Eligibility)

Read it on the EU portal ↗Answered 8 Apr 2025

YesCan NGOs apply for funding?NGOs are in general eligible under this Call.

Yes, NGOs are in general eligible under this Call.

Read it on the EU portal ↗Answered 8 Apr 2025

YesIs there funding for successful applicants to recruit and pay staff?Staff costs are eligible.

Yes, staff costs are eligible.

Read it on the EU portal ↗Answered 7 Apr 2025

Partners and consortium

NoAre UN organizations (located in one of the EU member states) eligible to be the coordinator, beneficiary or affiliated entity?International organizations such as UN are not eligible.

No, international organizations such as UN are not eligible. The rules on eligible countries do not apply to them.

Read it on the EU portal ↗Answered 8 Apr 2025

How many proposals can one organisation be part of under this call either as coordinating institution or partner?Coordinating institutions may submit more than one proposal for different projects under the same call (and be awarded a funding for them).

Coordinating institutions may submit more than one proposal for different projects under the same call (and be awarded a funding for them). Organisations may participate in several proposals.

Read it on the EU portal ↗Answered 8 Apr 2025

What are the restrictions for subcontracting?Subcontracting should normally constitute a limited part of the grant and must be performed by third parties (not by one of the beneficiaries/affiliated entities).

Subcontracting should normally constitute a limited part of the grant and must be performed by third parties (not by one of the beneficiaries/affiliated entities). Subcontracting going beyond 30% of the total eligible cost must be justified in the application. The general rule is that the coordination task cannot be subcontracted.

Read it on the EU portal ↗Answered 8 Apr 2025

Budget and costs

YesAre costs for seperate project website eligible under under this call?Costs for a separate project website are eligible.

Yes, costs for a separate project website are eligible.

Read it on the EU portal ↗Answered 5 Nov 2025

The co-financing rate is 80%. Does that mean that in the budget the consortium has to explain how much they will add to the project?Once the application budget has been evaluated and approved by the Agency, the grant will be fixed to 80% of the approved budget (limited to a maximum amount of…

Once the application budget has been evaluated and approved by the Agency, the grant will be fixed to 80% of the approved budget (limited to a maximum amount of 1.000.000 EUR). The other 20% is the co-funding. It is up to each beneficiary to decide how to find the co-financing needed. During the lifetime of the project, if each work package has been fully implemented with the planned qualitative deliverables, the Lump Sum amount of the work package is paid. You don’t have to justify the co-financing nor provide any proof.

Read it on the EU portal ↗Answered 8 Apr 2025

Writing and submitting

What is the page limit of the Technical Description (part B)?Proposals are limited to maximum 70 pages (Part B).

Proposals are limited to maximum 70 pages (Part B). Evaluators will not consider any additional pages.

Read it on the EU portal ↗Answered 15 Apr 2025

What are the mandatory annexes?Only Detailed budget table/calculator is a mandatory annex.

Only Detailed budget table/calculator is a mandatory annex. You cannot attach any other documents.

Read it on the EU portal ↗Answered 8 Apr 2025

Official source

Confirm the current call documents and submission conditions with the funding authority.

View on EU portal ↗

Source: EU Funding & Tenders Portal · synced 2026-11-09

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