International cooperation for excellence
The Erasmus+ Partnerships for Excellence focus on strategic international cooperation over several years. Swiss educational institutions that want to initiate a strategic change in the European and Swiss education system or in their organisation work together with colleagues at foreign educational institutions to develop possible solutions to shared systemic or institutional challenges. "European Universities" support reforms in the higher education sector, "Centres of Vocational Excellence" support reforms in the vocational education and training sector.
What it's all about
Long-term strategic cooperation with relevance for the Swiss education system in collaboration with institutions abroad, mainly in Erasmus+ countries
For higher education institutions based in Switzerland
The coordination of the overall Erasmus+ project must be carried out by an organisation in an Erasmus+ country
Application by a Swiss institution
Project duration 2-4 years
Application deadline usually in spring
Added value
For institutions:
- You develop your teaching and learning offerings, e.g. new study and training courses or teaching skills adapted to labour market requirements on future topics such as green and digital change
- You distinguish yourself with these new programmes (e.g. Joint Master's degrees)
- You intensify your international networks and raise your international profile
- You contribute to European education policy (European Education Area, European Higher Education and Research Area)
- You contribute to a competitive Swiss higher education or vocational education and training area (e.g. internationalisation of Swiss vocational education and training institutions, international recognition and visibility of Swiss vocational education and training, reducing regulatory barriers to international mobility and cooperation)