# Alliances for STEM Skills Foundries
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**topic id:** ERASMUS-EDU-2026-PI-ALL-INNO-STEM
**call id:** ERASMUS-EDU-2026-PI-ALL-INNO
**title:** Alliances for STEM Skills Foundries
**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-STEM
**description:** Scope:
Lot 3: STEM Skills Foundries
STEM Skills Foundries aim to create sectorial, transnational and sustainable cooperation between higher education institutions, VET providers and business companies that will foster new, innovative and multidisciplinary approaches to teaching and learning by providing young student entrepreneurs with real business-insights and mentoring opportunities tailored to their talents, needs and objectives. The specific focus of this topic is the fostering of innovation, creating entrepreneurial mindsets, providing young student entrepreneurs access to laboratories, technical infrastructures and equipment, supporting the development of intellectual property (IP), guiding them in the development of their master’s theses or business ideas, as well as facilitating access to venture capital in the strategic sectors identified in the Competitiveness Compass.
Projects supported under this topic will aim at boosting innovation through cooperation among higher education and VET providers with labour market and entrepreneurial actors with a possible participation of venture capital funds,facilitated by EIT KICs.
**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:** 
    **112482:** 
      -         **action:** ERASMUS-EDU-2026-PI-ALL-INNO-STEM - ERASMUS-LS ERASMUS Lump Sum Grants
        **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
      -         **action:** ERASMUS-EDU-2026-PI-ALL-INNO-BLUEPRINT - ERASMUS-LS ERASMUS Lump Sum Grants
        **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
      -         **action:** ERASMUS-EDU-2026-PI-ALL-INNO-EDU-ENTERP - ERASMUS-LS ERASMUS Lump Sum Grants
        **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
**keywords:** ERASMUS-EDU-2026-PI-ALL-INNO-STEM, ERASMUS-EDU-2026-PI-ALL-INNO, Capacity of VET providers, Engineering, Entrepreneurship, Higher education, Mathematics, Science, VET, VET teachers, entrepreneurial skills, innovation in education, technology gap
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