Adult Learning: Support to the Pact for Skills

Themes and Priorities

• The Pact for Skills is the flagship action of the 2020 European Skills Agenda. The Pact is firmly anchored in the principles of the European Pillar of Social Rights and supports the goals of the Green Deal and the digital transformation, as set out in the Commission communication “A strong Social Europe for Just Transitions”. It also contributes to reaching the EU target of 60% of adults participating in training every year by 2030, as set out in the European Pillar of Social Rights Action Plan.
• Projects should include only partners that are registered members of the Pact for Skills.

Funding Information

• Topic budget: EUR 8 000 000.

Eligible Activities

• Projects should implement all the activities listed below:
  • Develop and support governance structures and cooperation tools, connecting members of the Pact for Skills;
  • Develop and support cooperation of large companies with SMEs, and among SMEs, in the field of training;
  • Support the definition, implementation, and monitoring of concrete commitments under the Pact for Skills, such as:
    • gathering skills intelligence;
    • upskilling of low-skilled people;
    • reskilling people for new tasks in their jobs;
    • reskilling of people from other sectors with skills transferable into the own sector.

Outcomes

• The projects shall reinforce cooperation between individual registered members of the Pact for Skills and between registered members of the various partnerships under the Pact for Skills resulting in better skills intelligence and effective upskilling and reskilling of people in work and of people who thus become employable. The projects will improve training provision along value chains within the Pact, particularly for SMEs.

Eligibility Criteria

• In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must:
  • be legal entities (public or private bodies) active in the fields of education and training, research and innovation or in the world of work. For Topic 4 ‘Adult Learning: Support to the Pact for Skills’, these bodies should also be registered members of the Pact for skills;
  • be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.:
    • Erasmus+ Programme Countries:
      • EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs))
      • non-EU countries:
        • listed EEA countries and countries associated to the Erasmus+ Programme
  • for higher education institutions (HEIs) established in Erasmus+ Programme Countries (see above): be holders of the ECHE certificate (Erasmus Charter for Higher Education).

For more information, visit European Commission.