Topic 7: Digital education: Ethical and effective use of generative Artificial Intelligence systems in education and training’

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)

Yes, NGOs are in general eligible under this Call.

Yes, staff costs are eligible.

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

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.

Yes, costs for a separate project website are eligible.

In an eligible proposal, at least 1 applicant (beneficiary, not affiliated entity) must qualify as a public education and training authority. Therefore, as a beneficiary in the consortium, the entity must have clearly allocated tasks/ contribution to the description of action, and similarly related budget. The budget share must reflect the effort, complexity and volume of assigned tasks.

If any public education and training authorities are set as associated partners in the consortium, they will not claim any costs for the assigned tasks, but they won't be able to support the eligibility condition of the consortium for this topic - as associated partners are not grant beneficiaries.

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.

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

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

“Public education and training authorities are understood as public bodies with the mandate, responsibility, and power to define and adopt systemic policy reforms in the field of education and training at their level - being local, regional or national”, according to the Call document. Type of eligible institutions may differ from one country to another, depending on their mandate. For example, ministries or regional education bodies can qualify as public education and training authorities. Organization of national education systems can be found on EURYDICE.