Over the last budgeting period (2014-2020), Turkey received a total of €740 million. Over 36,500 Turkish organisations participated to the Erasmus Plus programme. And around 315,000 teachers, students, staff and trainees from Turkey benefitted from the Programme.

Concerning the European Solidarity Corps programme, the Turkish organisations initiated 350 volunteering projects and 150 solidarity projects.

Turkey in the Erasmus Plus Programme 2021-2027

With Turkey signing the agreements to participate to the Erasmus Plus and European Solidarity Corps programmes for 2021-2027, hundreds of Turkish teachers, trainees, students, researchers and young people will have the opportunity to participate under the same conditions as participants from EU Member States.

The agreement was signed late in October 27th, 2021. It strengthens the alliance between the EU and Turkey to deliver on common priorities, such as the twin green and digital transition.

See the press release.

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Since 2006, the European Education and Culture Executive Agency has been managing projects in education, training, youth, sport, audiovisual, culture, citizenship and humanitarian aid. On behalf of the European Commission, EACEA strives to support innovation in these areas, always in a spirit of cross-border cooperation and mutual respect.

About The EACEA Brochure

The downloadable document displays the new EACEA mandate for 2021-2027 programming period and describes the Agency’s activities and governance.

Specifically, you will find the following information:

• introductions from the Director-General for Education, Youth, Sport and Culture and the Director of EACEA;
• descriptions of the funding programmes managed by EACEA;
• budget information for the 2021-2027 programming period;
• a list of EACEA’s supervisory partners (parent DGs) in the European Commission;
• an overview of the types of organisations and individuals that EACEA’s funding programmes support;
• information on where to apply for funding.

Contents at a Glance

The EACEA, together with the European Commission, manages the following programmes:

• Erasmus Plus
• Creative Europe
• Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values
• European Solidarity Corps

The programmes provide opportunities and support for a wide range of people and organisations in Europe and worldwide. A focus on each European programme is available in the brochure. Moreover, you will find an explaination about funding.

EACEA publishes funding opportunities on the European Commission’s central funding platform: the Funding & Tender Opportunities Portal (F&TP). To see the range of opportunities available, simply visit the portal and click on one of the programmes.

How To Get the EACEA Brochure

You can either access the EACEA brochure online or download it in PDF version from the same page.

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It is available for projects funded by Erasmus+: Youth in Action and European Solidarity Corps Programmes. As so, the European Commission introduced the Youthpass to give recognition to non-formal learning.

Under the supervision and support of the organisation, the project participants can describe the activities they have done, along with the achievements and competences acquired. The Youthpass has recognition all over Europe, being thus a powerful and useful tool widely spendable. In this way it also supports the employability of young people.

Moreover, the responsibility to issue the Youthpass certificates to the participants, lies with the organisation that signs the contract for the Erasmus+ grant.

Youthpass 2021-2027

As already mentioned, Youthpass is part of the recently launched Erasmus+ 2021-2027 Programme. Moreover the legal basis for the ESC 2021-2027 refers to Youthpass among the Union tools to foster the recognition of competences and skills.

Therefore Youthpass will remain available for the participants of the youth field activities within Erasmus+. To confirm their participation and more importantly, to offer the possibility to describe the learning process and the developed learning outcomes when taking part in such Programmes.

The Youthpass Strategy finalisation is on the way. S.A.L.T.O., the European Commission, and other stakeholders are going through the following features:

• the quality implementation of Youthpass;
• setting its development directions;
• contributing to better recognition of non-formal and informal learning in youth work and solidarity activities.

A further development that we can expect is an automatic notifications system that will accompany Youthpass users throughout their project. Plus a digital reflection tool for the participants.

The strategy will be available before summer 2021. It will aim for a broader visibility and understanding of the learning value of youth work and solidarity activities.

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To endorse and enhance the great success of European Solidarity Corps, back in 2018 the European Commission launched a proposal for the 2021-2027 budget period to be discussed among the EU member states. It was a stand-alone programme for Phase 3 of the European Solidarity Corps.

The proposal included:

• Increase the budget for the European Solidarity Corps to €1.26 billion to allow at least 350,000 young people to participate;
• Make the volunteering activities in support of humanitarian aid operations (EU Aid Volunteers scheme) part of the Solidarity Corps.

The evaluating process continued on November 2018, when the Council approved a further discussion of the matter, starting the negotiations with the European Parliament, which effectively began in October 2019.

Now the Council and the European Parliament have just reached a political agreement on the European Solidarity Corps programme for 2021-2027. They agreed a budget of €1.009 billion, covering at least 270k young people engaged in societal and humanitarian challenges as volunteers or by setting up their own solidarity projects.

This means that beyond 2020, the ESC will continue to be a meaningful opportunity for youth, allowing to develop new precious skills and promote the European values of freedom, equality, democracy and human rights. The programme supports the following actions:

• Volunteering in solidarity activities, addressing societal challenges (people aged 18-30), plus
• Humanitarian aid related solidarity actions (people aged 18-35).

The provisional agreement provides also that the implementation of the activities should address unforeseen circumstances such as pandemics, environmental crisis and conflicts. The international organisations, public or private, have access to the programme as long as they received the ESC quality label. The activities are open to the member states, plus third countries when applicable.
Finally, the voluntary solidarity activities may take place in the country other than the country of residence or in-country, especially for young people with fewer opportunities. Concerning the humanitarian aid actions, they may take place in third armed conflict-free countries.

There is still a next and final step: the European Solidarity Corps 2021-2017 programme needs the approval of the Multiannual Framework by the European Parliament and EU member states to turn into force. This is the later stage of the decisional process.

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