The Erasmus+ Programme Guide

The Erasmus+ Programme Guide is the Commission's official reference document for the programme. It gives participating organisations and individuals a full list of the opportunities Erasmus+ supports, and it forms part of the annual Erasmus+ Call for Proposals.

Current edition: the 2026 Programme Guide (version 1, 12 November 2025), part of the 2026 Call for Proposals. A new edition comes out each year with the next call, usually in November, and the Commission sometimes publishes corrected versions in between, so check that you are reading the latest one. Open the current Guide on the Commission's site ↗

Who should read it: organisations and institutions seeking Erasmus+ funding need to meet the conditions for participation set out in the Guide. It's less essential for individual participants — for staff mobility like our courses, your school's Erasmus+ coordinator or National Agency is usually the more direct source.

The Programme Guide is published in four parts. Each links to the Commission's own current version:

If you are attending a training course abroad with an Erasmus+ grant, these are the rules in the 2026 Guide that matter most. Apart from the budget limit, they are the same in its chapters on school education, adult education and vocational education and training (Part B, Key Action 1).

• Length: a course lasts 2 to 10 days. Online learning can be added around it; the 2–10 day limit applies to the part spent abroad. All our courses run for 5 days.
• Course fee: the grant contributes €80 per participant for each day of the course.
• Who can go together: up to three people from the same organisation (ten from the same consortium) can be funded for the same course, and each person can take one course per project.
• Active and international: the course needs a clear transnational element, for example participants from different countries learning together. Passive formats such as lectures, speeches or mass conferences are not funded.
• Your organisation chooses: course providers are independent of the programme, so choosing a course is the sending organisation's responsibility. The Commission's quality standards for courses ↗ are there to help.
• Budget limit (school education and VET): courses can use at most half of a project's grant; for projects of up to €40,000 the limit is €20,000.
• Deadlines: in the 2026 call, organisations applied to their National Agency by 19 February at 12:00 (Brussels time), and some National Agencies opened a second round for short-term projects closing on 1 October. The next call's dates will be in the next edition of the Guide and on your National Agency's website.

Source: Programme Guide, Part B, mobility for pupils and staff in school education ↗

The Guide is written for two groups: participating organisations — schools, institutions and bodies running Programme-supported activities — and participants themselves, meaning the teachers, trainers, youth workers and other professionals who take part.

Every year, thousands of projects are submitted for Erasmus+ funding. For most Actions, the rules and conditions for receiving a grant are set out directly in the Programme Guide; for a smaller number of Actions it only mentions, the exact rules are published in separate calls for proposals.