Key Action 203 Strategic Partnerships

1. Key Action 203 Strategic Partnerships Joanna Collins British Council

2. Introduction • For innovation and good practice • Projects contributing to EC Agenda for HE Modernisation • 150, 000 euros per year for two or three years • Wide variety of projects possible • More complex system of grant rates • HEIs can apply in another sector if the project mainly benefits the other sector • Not Intensive Programmes (IPs)

3. Eligibility • Any organisation active in the labour market • At least three HEIs from different programme countries • Lead partner applies and manages funds • Distribution of project management funding up to partners. • HEIs with ECHEs • Project contact • Head of institution/legal representative • Partner countries contributing to the development of European education and training

4. Assessment criteria • Relevance: EU policy, Erasmus+, needs analysis, objectives, synergies with other fields, innovative, complementary, added value • Design: consistency between needs, objectives, activities, methodology, cost effectiveness, T&L • Partnership: complementary organisations, newcomers, roles, other sectors, coordination and communication • Impact and dissemination: evaluation, impact, dissemination plan, open access, sustainability

5. Components (application form; funded) • Intellectual outputs and activities - different flat rates for different roles: manager, researcher/teacher /trainer, technician, administrator • Project management • Transnational project meetings • Multiplier events (dissemination) • Learning, teaching and training • Linguistic support • Special needs

6. Mobility in KA2 • Must be embedded in overall Strategic Partnership (mobility alone unlikely to score highly enough on quality assessment) • Different rules apply • Linguistic support for periods longer than two months • Different grant rates apply • Quality criteria for periods before, during and after mobility must be met • Impact and dissemination a main criterion of KA2

7. Student Mobility in Strategic Partnerships • Blended: physical mobility and virtual mobility • Virtual does not attract grant • Physical for up to twomonths • Short programmes contributing to overall strategic partnership five days to two months Grants: • Travel flat rate by distance band • up to the 14th day of activity: €55per day per person • between the 15th and 60th day of activity: €40 per day per person

8. Staff mobility for teaching, learning and training in Strategic Partnerships • All staff eligible • Long-term teaching or training: two to 12 months • Short term staff training: five days to two months Grants • Subsistence by country and duration (up to 14th day, 15th to 60th day, 61st day to 12 months) • Travel flat rate by distance band • Other staff grants vary according to activity undertaken

9. Appeals • Formal request for review of a decision affecting your grant • If you think the NA is in error • Download form from https://www.erasmusplus.org.uk/contact-us/how-to-make-an-appeal • First point of contact for questions, short duration, regulation etc – the Erasmus+ HE team

10. Other • Competitive therefore make sure meet all criteria • Erasmus+, not IPs, not other priorities • Innovation, modernisation • Impact at level of partners and beyond • All partners involved, different roles and impact • Clarify objectives • Think in project hierarchy: needs, objectives, outputs, activities, plus dissemination, impact and sustainability • Coherence • Proportionality

11. Questions?