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The EU Program Erasmus+ will continue starting in January of 2021. It supports the creation and funding of projects that work on themes of education, training, and sport in Europe. The program’s budget is over €14.7 billion and has previously enable more than 4 million Europeans to learn and work abroad; both individuals and organizations take part in Erasmus programs.

Participation in the Erasmus+ program will be possible in all areas in the form of integrated learning ("blended learning"); likewise, the acquisition of knowledge and skills by means of eLearning will be expanded. Under the current conditions of COVID-19, the program is already doing important preparatory work to ensure that participation in the program remains possible even without physical mobility and face-to-face learning.

Here are links with some information about the upcoming Erasmus+ cycle:

https://www.na-bibb.de/en/

Erasmus Charter for Higher Education 2021-2027 Guidelines

The Employment and Social Innovation (EaSI) programme is a financing instrument at EU level to promote a high level of quality and sustainable employment, guaranteeing adequate and decent social protection, combating social exclusion and poverty and improving working conditions.

It supports:

• the modernisation of employment and social policies with the PROGRESS axis;
• job mobility with the EURES axis;
• access to micro-finance and social entrepreneurship with the Microfinance and Social Entrepreneurship axis.

Horizon Europe is an ambitious €100 billion research and innovation programme to succeed Horizon 2020.

Horizon Europe will support European partnerships with EU countries, the private sector, foundations and other stakeholders. The aim is to deliver on global challenges and industrial modernisation through concerted research and innovation efforts.

It is divided into three pillars:

• Excellent Science
• Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
• Innovative Europe

The European Cluster Collaboration Platform (ECCP) is a service facility aiming to provide cluster organisations with modern tools.

The services include:

• a dynamic mapping of over 1000 profiled cluster organisations worldwide 
• the largest information hub for clusters offering latest news/events/open calls to a broad community
• matchmaking events supporting the development of cooperation between clusters in Europe and beyond
• a database on regional, national, international and sectoral cluster networks
• detailed information on the European Strategic Cluster Partnerships
• a partner search facility, where cluster organisations can exchange their offers and demands
• dedicated pages supporting international cooperation including profiles of selected countries of strategic interest and related European international support services
• a database of profiled cluster-related projects developed under various European programmes.

The Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) manages funding for education, culture, audiovisual, sport, citizenship and volunteering. The website collects information on the funding programmes managed by the EACEA:

• Creative Europe (culture and audiovisual media)
• Erasmus+  (education, training, youth and sport)
• European Solidarity Corps (volunteering, traineeships and job opportunities for young people across Europe)
• Europe for Citizens (remembrance and civic participation)
• EU Aid Volunteers (training and capacity building of volunteers and humanitarian organisation)
• Intra-Africa Mobility Scheme (academic mobility in Africa)

The EACEA website is a knowledge database on current developments, funding opportunities, calls for proposals and the specific application procedures of these programmes.

Visegrad Fund supports a diverse range of activities in all areas of life. From small cross-border projects that strive to improve mutual understanding in the border areas to multilateral initiatives. Projects must develop cooperation and active participation of organizations from at least 3 V4 countries (Poland, Czech Republik, Hungary and Slovakia) or organizations from 3 V4 countries and at least 1 organization from Western or Eastern Balkan countries (Visegrad+ Grants).

More information:

https://www.visegradfund.org/

The Alpine Space programme is a European transnational cooperation programme for the Alpine region. It provides a framework to facilitate the cooperation between economic, social and environmental key players in seven Alpine countries, as well as between various institutional levels such as: academia, administration, business and innovation sector, and policy making.

Four of these thematic fields, called priorities, have been identified for the 2014–2020 period:

Priority 1: Innovative Alpine Space
Priority 2: Low Carbon Alpine Space
Priority 3: Liveable Alpine Space
Priority 4: Well-Governed Alpine Space

The cooperation area of the Alpine Space programme covers the Alps and their surrounding lowlands, connecting very distinct regions, such as the French Rhone Valley with the Slovenian Adriatic coast, and the metropolitan area of Milan with the Bavarian foothills.

The programming process for the Alpine Space programme 2021-2027 has officially started.

The European Social Fund (ESF) is the European Union's main financial instrument for social policy and investment in people.

The ESF supports measures

• to prevent and combat unemployment
• to expand the range of training on offer
• and for an improved functioning of the labour market.

With the aim of promoting and employing, ESF invests in education, skills and lifelong learning. The priorities are gender equality, active ageing and inclusion, adaptation to change, technical assistance and reducing early school leaving. The ESF is one of the European Union's Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF) alongside the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD), the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF) and the Cohesion Fund.

INTERREG is the EU programme for cross-border cooperation, which supports collaborations between european countries. This includes three types of cooperation:

cross-border (INTERREG A)
transnational (INTERREG B)
interregional (INTERREG C).

On-line platform run by the Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF). ASEF culture360 is designed to stimulate cultural engagement and enhance mutual understanding between Asia and Europe. It enables finding the grants for Asian -Europe cultural collaboration initiatives. You may search for grants, residences and jobs by countries, themes and artistic/creative disciplines: https://culture360.asef.org/