EU funding for defence stakeholders: EDA launches ‘ERASMUS+ platform’

Strategic Research Agendas in defence and their Technology Building Blocks (OSRA-TBBs), as well as Key Strategic Activities (KSA) often build on specific defence-related Key Skills and Competencies (KSC). The cooperative development and enhancement of any KSC for defence can be concretely supported by EU funding programmes, among them, the 'Erasmus+ 2014-2020'.

To raise awareness, transfer know-how and build autonomous capacity about the Erasmus+ opportunities for defence, the European Defence Agency (EDA) published the 'EDA's ERASMUS+ platform'.
This is a new user-friendly gateway providing potential defence-related stakeholders (such as Ministries of Defence, defence-related industry, research-and-technology organisations, academia, clusters) with:
• a swift and simple introduction to funding opportunities for Defence under the Erasmus+ programme;
• an interactive analytical mapping on 'sources' of calls for proposals (and contact details of the relevant Agencies in charge of funding allocation).

For the EU budgetary framework until 2020, the Erasmus+ delivers more than 14 billion euros and can co-fund defence-related projects in support of:

• the mobility of individuals (students / trainees / apprentices) acquiring competences, knowledge and skills;
• the development, testing, implementation and transfer of innovative educational/training practices, by encompassing transnational training as well as the planning of professional development (also for Defence staff, thereby increasing the capacity to work at international level and exchange experience / know-how);
• entrepreneurial skills in defence for graduates and employees.

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