# Leadership Development programme for higher education institutions’ leaders
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## Public content

**topic id:** ERASMUS-EDU-2025-PI-FORWARD-HE-LD
**call id:** ERASMUS-EDU-2025-PI-FORWARD-HE
**title:** Leadership Development programme for higher education institutions’ leaders
**programme:** Erasmus+
**status:** closed
**deadline date:** 2026-03-19T00:00:00+00:00
**deadline model:** single-stage
**start date:** 2025-12-03T00:00:00+00:00
**url:** https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/ERASMUS-EDU-2025-PI-FORWARD-HE-LD
**description:** Expected Impact:
• Established European Leadership Academy, creating a European community of leadership practice, connecting leaders of higher education institutions in Europe for mutual learning, exchange of practices, and co-creation of innovative solutions to shared challenges.
• Increased leadership expertise enabling transformative change in the higher education sector in Europe.
• Facilitating higher education sector transformation in Europe based on transnational cooperation, academic freedom and other European approaches.
• Development of attractive and sustainable academic careers in higher education sector throughout the European Education Area.
• Inspiration for sustainable leadership models based on European values.
 Objective:
The main objective of this action is to develop leadership capabilities enabling transformative change in the higher education sector in Europe. The changing geopolitical climate, societal challenges, technological advancement, new ways of teaching and learning, interaction with a wide range of stakeholders, the new level of depth and scope of European higher education cooperation, etc. require diverse leadership skills to navigate through ever-evolving challenges.
Scope:
• Developing and testing innovative leadership approaches, enabling leaders to guide their institutions through the green and digital transitions, advance innovative learning and teaching and develop sustainable academic careers. The approaches used in the programme should be exploratory, experiential, and action-oriented, ensuring that leaders develop practical capabilities through engagement with authentic institutional challenges.
• Shaping European leadership approaches based on European values and encourage academic freedom, sustainability, diversity and transnational cooperation, while ensuring balanced participation across gender, age, institutional profiles, and areas of expertise. By creating opportunities for leaders from a broad range of higher education institutions and sectors, the action will foster a richer exchange of perspectives and enable more innovative and systemic solutions.
• Providing visibility by effective communication and dissemination of outputs (learning materials, case studies, training resources, policy briefs, etc.) at institutional, national, and European levels.
**conditions:** Conditions
1. Admissibility Conditions: Proposal page limit and layout
described in the call document 
Proposal page limits and layout: described in Part B of the Application Form available in the Submission System.

2. Eligible Countries
described in the call document.

3. Other Eligible Conditions
n/a

4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion
n/a

5a. Evaluation and award: Submission and evaluation processes
n/a

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: December, 3 2025.
Deadline for submitting applications: March, 3 2026 17:00 (Brussels time).
Evaluation period: March-May 2026.
Information to applicants: June-July 2026.
Signature of grant agreement: by October 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 
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 
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:** 
    **112526:** 
      -         **action:** ERASMUS-EDU-2025-PI-FORWARD-HE-EDPP - ERASMUS-LS ERASMUS Lump Sum Grants
        **budget Year Map:** 
          **2025:** 7000000
        **deadline Dates:** 
          - 2026-03-19
        **deadline Model:** single-stage
        **expected Grants:** 0
        **max Contribution:** 0
        **min Contribution:** 0
        **planned Opening Date:** 2025-12-03
    **112527:** 
      -         **action:** ERASMUS-EDU-2025-PI-FORWARD-HE-LD - ERASMUS-LS ERASMUS Lump Sum Grants
        **budget Year Map:** 
          **2025:** 1000000
        **deadline Dates:** 
          - 2026-03-19
        **deadline Model:** single-stage
        **expected Grants:** 0
        **max Contribution:** 0
        **min Contribution:** 0
        **planned Opening Date:** 2025-12-03
**keywords:** ERASMUS-EDU-2025-PI-FORWARD-HE-LD, ERASMUS-EDU-2025-PI-FORWARD-HE, 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
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