European Degree Exploratory Action

This Erasmus+ call supports joint programmes aligned with the Joint European Degree Label criteria: creating new programmes, adapting existing ones, and providing student support mechanisms. Applicants may choose one or more themes; proposals covering multiple themes are encouraged, with activities organised in separate corresponding Work Packages.

For Theme 1, applicants are expected to create at least one new joint programme at EQF level 6, 7 or 8 that is innovative and has European added value. A programme whose concept, initial activities or development has already been supported by another Erasmus+ action is not considered genuinely new; applicants must declare that it has not previously been initiated or developed under another Erasmus+ action. For each programme, the application must describe its theme and subject area; partner universities and their roles; concept, objectives, target learners, estimated first-cohort student numbers and expected learning outcomes; rationale against the Label criteria; and planned accreditation pathway and indicative timeline. The programme should address emerging needs, combine participating institutions’ complementary expertise, provide a genuinely integrated curriculum and meaningful international or transnational learning with mobility opportunities, and, where relevant, use innovative teaching, learning and assessment approaches, strengthening higher education quality, attractiveness and its European dimension. Theme 2 requires adaptation of at least one previously developed joint programme at EQF level 6, 7 and/or 8. The application must describe the programme, its partner universities, implementation stage and accreditation status and, where applicable, enrolment, the scope and nature of adaptations, and the indicative accreditation or reaccreditation pathway and route to the Label.