# Alliances for Sectoral Cooperation on Skills (implementing the ‘Blueprint')
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**topic id:** ERASMUS-EDU-2026-PI-ALL-INNO-BLUEPRINT
**call id:** ERASMUS-EDU-2026-PI-ALL-INNO
**title:** Alliances for Sectoral Cooperation on Skills (implementing the ‘Blueprint')
**programme:** Erasmus+
**status:** closed
**deadline date:** 2026-03-10T00:00:00+00:00
**deadline model:** single-stage
**start date:** 2025-12-04T00:00:00+00:00
**url:** https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/ERASMUS-EDU-2026-PI-ALL-INNO-BLUEPRINT
**description:** Scope:
ALLIANCES FOR INNOVATION 
Alliances for Innovation aim to strengthen Europe’s innovation capacity by boosting innovation through cooperation and flow of knowledge among higher education, vocational education and training (both initial and continuous), and the broader socio-economic environment, including research. 
They also aim to boost the provision of new skills and address skills mismatches by designing and creating new curricula for higher education (HE) and vocational education and training (VET), supporting the development of a sense of initiative and entrepreneurial mind-sets in the EU. 
OBJECTIVES OF THE ACTION 
These partnerships shall implement a coherent and comprehensive set of sectoral or cross-sectoral activities, which should be adaptable to future knowledge developments across the EU. 
To boost innovation, the focus will be on talent and skills development. Firstly, digital competences have become increasingly important in all job profiles across the entire labour market. Secondly, the transition to a circular and greener economy needs to be underpinned by changes to qualifications and national education and training curricula to meet emerging professional needs for green skills and sustainable development. Thirdly, the twin digital and green transition requires an accelerated adoption of new technologies across all sectors of our economy and society and boosting STEM skills and talent. 
Lot 2: Alliances for Sectoral Cooperation on Skills (implementing the ‘Blueprint’) 
Alliances for Sectoral Cooperation on Skills aim to create new strategic approaches and cooperation for concrete skills development solutions – both in the short and the medium term – in areas implementing a major action of the European Skills Agenda for sustainable competitiveness, social fairness and resilience, the Pact for Skills, an action launched under the European Skills Agenda in 2020 and now a major element of the sector based approach of the Union of Skills, the overarching European skills strategy. The initiative provides large-scale partnerships established under the Pact for Skills, with the opportunity to support the development of sector skills strategies, as well as the revision and development of job profiles and of related training programmes. The main objective of the Pact is to mobilise and incentivize all relevant stakeholders and leverage public-private partnerships to take concrete actions for the upskilling and reskilling of the workforce, by pooling efforts and setting up partnerships, also at EU level, addressing the needs of the labour market, supporting green and digital transitions as well as national, regional and local skills and growth strategies. Therefore, the deliverables of Alliances for Sectoral Cooperation on Skills, i.e. sectoral skills intelligence, skills strategies, occupational profiles, training programmes, and long-term planning, will be an important contribution to the work of the ecosystem-based large-scale partnerships that have joined the Pact for Skills. 
Alliances for Sectoral Cooperation on Skills seek to tackle skills gaps on the labour market that hamper growth, innovation and competitiveness in specific sectors or areas, aiming both at short term interventions and long-term strategies. These Alliances will be implemented in the 14 industrial ecosystems identified in the New Industrial Strategy for Europe1 (see eligibility criteria).
**conditions:** Conditions
1. Admissibility Conditions: Proposal page limit and layout
Described in the Erasmus+ Programme Guide 2026.
Proposal page limits and layout: described in Part B of the Application Form available in the Submission System.
Page limit for the Part B of the Application Form (Technical Description) is 120 pages for all the 3 Lots. Within these 120 pages limit, the list of relevant previous projects is included.
Layout is described in the Important Notice of the application form.

2. Eligible Countries 
Described in the Erasmus+ Programme Guide 2026.

3. Other Eligible Conditions 
described in the Erasmus+ Programme Guide 2026.

4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion 
described in the Erasmus+ Programme Guide 2026.

5a. Evaluation and award: Submission and evaluation processes 
described in the Erasmus+ Programme Guide 2026.

5b. Evaluation and award: Award criteria, scoring and thresholds 
Evaluation criteria, scoring, threshold and process are described the Erasmus+ Programme Guide 2026.

5c. Evaluation and award: Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement 
described in the Erasmus+ Programme Guide 2026.
 
Publication of the call: 28 November 2025. 
Deadline for submitting applications: 10 March 2026, 17:00 (Brussels time). 
Evaluation period: March - July 2026. 
Information to applicants: by September 2026. 
Signature of grant agreement: September - December 2026. 

6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants 
n/a

 
 

Call document and annexes: 
 Application form templates
Standard application form (ERASMUS BB and LSII)
Detailed budget table (ERASMUS LSII)
Guidance
Erasmus+ Programme Guide 2026
Model Grant Agreements (MGA)
Lump Sum MGA

Additional documents: 
 Call document 
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  
**action type:** ERASMUS Lump Sum Grants
**budget:** 
  **budget Years Columns:** 
    - 2026
  **budget Topic Action Map:** 
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        **deadline Dates:** 
          - 2026-03-10
        **deadline Model:** single-stage
        **expected Grants:** 0
        **max Contribution:** 0
        **min Contribution:** 0
        **planned Opening Date:** 2025-12-04
      -         **action:** ERASMUS-EDU-2026-PI-ALL-INNO-BLUEPRINT - ERASMUS-LS ERASMUS Lump Sum Grants
        **budget Year Map:** 
          **2026:** 67000000
        **deadline Dates:** 
          - 2026-03-10
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        **max Contribution:** 0
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        **planned Opening Date:** 2025-12-04
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        **budget Year Map:** 
          **2026:** 67000000
        **deadline Dates:** 
          - 2026-03-10
        **deadline Model:** single-stage
        **expected Grants:** 0
        **max Contribution:** 0
        **min Contribution:** 0
        **planned Opening Date:** 2025-12-04
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