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Programme areas: Virtual Exchanges in Higher Education and Youth
Keywords: Democratic engagement and civic participation, Digital transformation, Environment, Higher education, Inclusion, Youth
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# EU Funding & Tenders Portal EU Funding & Tenders Portal * Results & Innovation support * SME Self-assessment tool Home Funding Calls for proposals Erasmus+ Virtual Exchanges in South Mediterranean Countries Erasmus+ Virtual Exchanges in South Mediterranean Countries ERASMUS-EDU-2026-VIRT-EXCH-SMC * Conditions and documents * Partner search announcements Erasmus+ Virtual Exchanges (ERASMUS-EDU-2026-VIRT-EXCH) ERASMUS-LS ERASMUS Lump Sum Grants ERASMUS Lump Sum Grant [ERASMUS-AG-LS] 26 March 2026 17:00:00 Brussels time **ERASMUS+ VIRTUAL EXCHANGES** Virtual exchanges projects consist of online people-to-people activities that promote intercultural dialogue and soft skills development.
They make it possible for every young person to access high-quality international and cross-cultural education without physical mobility. While virtual debating or training does not fully replace the benefits of physical mobility, participants in virtual exchanges ought to reap some of the benefits of the international educational experience.
Digital platforms represent a valuable tool in partially answering the global constraints on mobility caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Virtual exchanges also help spreading European values. Moreover, in some cases, virtual exchanges can give ideas and prepare the ground for future physical exchanges not funded under this action.
Virtual exchanges in higher education and youth take place in small groups and are always moderated by a trained facilitator. They should be easily integrated into youth (non-formal education) projects or higher education courses. Virtual exchanges can draw participants from both sectors, even if, depending on specific projects, they could involve participants from either only one of them or from both.
All projects under this call will involve organisations and participants coming from both EU Member States and third countries associated to the Programme, and third countries not associated to the Programme in eligible regions.
**OBJECTIVES OF THE ACTION** * encourage intercultural dialogue with third countries not associated to the Programme and increase tolerance through online people-to-people interactions, building on digital, youth-friendly technologies; * promote various types of virtual exchanges as a complement to Erasmus+ physical mobility, allowing more young people to benefit from intercultural and international experience; * foster the digital and soft skills _1_ development of students, young people and youth workers _2_ , including the practice of foreign languages and teamwork, notably to enhance employability; * promote citizenship and the common values of freedom, tolerance and non-discrimination through education; * strengthen the youth dimension in the relations of the EU with third countries.
**THEMATIC AREAS / SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES** The virtual exchanges should be organised in one or more of the following thematic areas, which correspond to the priorities of the Erasmus+ Programme: * Inclusion and diversity; * Digital transformation; * Environment and fight against climate change; * Participation in democratic life, common values and civic engagement.
Within this broad framework, since virtual exchanges are a bottom-up initiative, participating organisations are free to choose the topics on which they will focus, but proposals must demonstrate their expected impact in relation to one or more of the objectives mentioned above (see also ‘Expected impact’ section below).
Gender aspects should be taken into account as needed, depending on the projects’ scope and themes (e.g. by introducing gender sensitivity aspects in the trainings). Special attention needs to be given to the inclusion of socially and economically vulnerable people and persons unable to apply for physical mobility. Further information can be found on the dedicated page of the Programme Guide (_erasmus-plus.
ec. europa. eu/erasmus-programme-guide_), please check the latest version for 2026.
_1_ Soft skills include the ability to think critically, be curious and creative, to take initiative, to solve problems and work collaboratively, to be able to communicate efficiently in a multicultural and interdisciplinary environment, to be able to adapt to context and to cope with stress and uncertainty.
These skills are part of the key competences, as outlined in the Council Recommendation on Key Competences for Lifelong Learning (OJ C 189/1 of 4. 6. 2018).
_2_ Youth workers are professional or volunteers involved in non-formal learning who support young people in their personal socio-educational and professional development. The submission session is now available for: ERASMUS-EDU-2026-VIRT-EXCH-SSA, ERASMUS-EDU-2026-VIRT-EXCH-NE, ERASMUS-EDU-2026-VIRT-EXCH-SMC, ERASMUS-EDU-2026-VIRT-EXCH-WB Topic conditions and documents #### 1.
Admissibility Conditions: Proposal page limit and layout Described in the ERASMUS+ Programme Guide 2026. **Proposal page limits and layout:**Page limit for the**Part B**of the Application Form (Technical Description) is**40 pages. ** #### 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 in 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: 27 November 2025 **Deadline for submitting applications: 26 March 2026, 17:00 (Brussels time)** Evaluation period: April - September 2026 Information to applicants: September 2026 Signature of grant agreement: December 2026 #### 6.
Legal and financial set-up of the grants #### Call document and annexes: ERASMUS+ Programme Guide 2026.
**Application form templates** Standard application form (ERASMUS BB and LSII) Detailed budget table (ERASMUS LSII) **Model Grant Agreements (MGA)** #### Additional documents: 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 How to manage your lump sum grants Partner search announcements **Searches of partners to collaborate on this topic** LEARs, Account Administrators or self-registrants can publish partner requests for open and forthcoming topics after logging into this Portal, as well as any user having an active public Person profile.
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To access existing draft proposals for this topic, please login to the Funding & Tenders Portal and select the My Proposals page of the My Area section. **Please select the type of your submission:** ERASMUS Lump Sum Grants [ERASMUS-LS], ERASMUS Lump Sum Grant [ERASMUS-AG-LS] Topic Q&As**1** item(s) found Do we need to fill in the sections of the application form (Part B) labelled with ”(n/a for prefixed lump sum Grants)”?
Yes, you need to fill in sections “2. 1. 4 Cost effectiveness and financial management” and the “Subcontracting” table below section “4.
2 Work packages, activities, resources and timin... Please read carefully all provisions below before the preparation of your application. For help related to this call, please contact EACEA-EPLUS-VIRTUAL-EXCHANGES@ec.
europa. eu Please note that the deadline for addressing queries related to the Erasmus+ Virtual Exchanges Call for proposals is **13 March 2026 (eob)**. Funding & Tenders Portal FAQ – Submission of proposals.
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