# Partnerships for Excellence: European Universities – European Degree exploratory  action
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**topic id:** ERASMUS-EDU-2025-PE-EUED
**call id:** ERASMUS-EDU-2025-PE-EUED
**title:** Partnerships for Excellence: European Universities – European Degree exploratory  action
**programme:** Erasmus+
**status:** closed
**deadline date:** 2026-03-17T00:00:00+00:00
**deadline model:** single-stage
**start date:** 2025-12-17T00:00:00+00:00
**url:** https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/ERASMUS-EDU-2025-PE-EUED
**description:** Objective:
Partnerships for Excellence support projects with a long-term sustainable perspective. This action aims at fostering excellence in higher education by supporting higher education institutions in the design, adaptation, and implementation of innovative and inclusive transnational joint programmes at bachelor, master, or doctoral levels, aligned with the criteria for the joint European degree label, as set out in Annex II of the Council Recommendation on a European Quality Assurance and Recognition System in Higher Education[1].
The action will generate practical models and evidence to inspire broader adoption of the joint European degree label across Europe. The action also encourages targeted exploration of the concept of a European degree in engineering.
[1] C/2025/3006
**conditions:** Conditions
1. Admissibility Conditions: Proposal page limit and layout
described in the call document.

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
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: 17 December 2025.
Deadline for submitting applications: 17 March 2026 17:00 (Brussels time).
Evaluation period: Late March-June 2026.
Information to applicants: September 2026.
Signature of grant agreement: December 2026.

6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants
described in the call document.

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 
Model Grant Agreements (MGA)
Lump Sum MGA 
ERASMUS 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 
Funding & Tenders Portal Online Manual 
Funding & Tenders Portal Terms and Conditions 
Funding & Tenders Portal Privacy Statement
**action type:** ERASMUS Lump Sum Grants
**budget:** 
  **budget Years Columns:** 
    - 2025
  **budget Topic Action Map:** 
    **112528:** 
      -         **action:** ERASMUS-EDU-2025-PE-EUED - ERASMUS-LS ERASMUS Lump Sum Grants
        **budget Year Map:** 
          **2025:** 14000000
        **deadline Dates:** 
          - 2026-03-17
        **deadline Model:** single-stage
        **expected Grants:** 0
        **max Contribution:** 0
        **min Contribution:** 0
        **planned Opening Date:** 2025-12-17
**keywords:** ERASMUS-EDU-2025-PE-EUED, ERASMUS-EDU-2025-PE-EUED, Bologna process - related to Modernisation of Higher Education, Certification, Verification, Validation, Technical Compliance, Standards, Curriculum design and development, Education, Engineering, Erasmus+, Quality assurance, joint learning offer, joint programmes
**last synced at:** 2026-11-09T17:23:17.403+00:00

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