The European Commission published the new Erasmus+ Call for Proposals and Programme Guide for 2026, as well as the Call and Guide for the European Solidarity Corps (ESC) for the next year.

These guides are essential to understating Erasmus+ and European Solidarity Corps programmes, providing participating organisations and individuals a comprehensive list of opportunities supported by the respective programme. 

Erasmus+ Programme will continue to support transnational experiences of school pupils, students in higher education and vocational education and training. The programme also offers opportunities to adult learners, educators and staff, as well as young people in non-formal learning programmes. The European Commission expects that the 2026 call will offer learning mobility experiences for approximately 1.275.000 participants and to support over 100.000 organisations involved in Erasmus+ projects, such as higher education institutions, schools, VET centres, companies, youth and sport organisations. The Erasmus+ 2026 call embraces the Union of Skills strategy, which aims to enhance skills development for quality employment, promote lifelong learning, and help build resilience. For Erasmus+ projects related to the field of sport, Key Action 1 application opportunity for Mobility of staff in the field of sport and youth, which are decentralised actions (managed by the national agencies) has project submission deadline February 19, 2026, while most of the Key Action 2 application processes for Cooperation partnerships and small-scale partnerships; Capacity building and Not-for-profit European sport events are centralised (managed by executive agency EACEA), with project submission deadline March 5, 2026. 

For European Solidarity Corps, volunteering and solidarity projects are the main fields of actions. The application process is decentralised (managed by the national agencies). Project submission deadline is February 18, 2026. 

These programmes provide an overview of the possibilities for projects to be funded by the European Union. Erasmus+ is one of the EU programmes, supporting funding in the fields of education, training, youth and sport; while the European Solidarity Corps supports volunteering and solidarity projects.

Please see the official EU pages for the Erasmus+ Call and Programme Guide and European Solidarity Corps Call and Guide.