Introduction

Erasmus+ Teacher Academies enhance the European dimension of teacher education. They create European partnerships of teacher education and training providers together with schools, school authorities and other school education stakeholders.

They support high-quality initial teacher education for future teachers and continuous professional development for teachers by creating courses, modules, and other learning opportunities. These address current and emerging challenges in and outside the classroom.

Aims

Erasmus+ Teacher Academies aim to

• improve future teachers’ and teachers’ ability to address challenges in the classroom
• develop sustainable collaboration to improve the quality of teacher education in Europe, inform teacher education policies and transform these policies into school practices
• make mobility an integral part of teacher education policies in Europe
• enhance the European dimension of teacher education through innovative and practical collaboration with teacher educators and teachers in other European countries and by sharing experiences for further development of teacher education in Europe

Funding

Teachers Academies fall under Erasmus+ Key Action 2 “Partnerships for Excellence”. They are managed by the European Education and Culture Executive Agency.

Maximum funding per project: € 1,500,000, for three years.

How to apply

These is no funding currently open. The next call 2027 is expected to be published in autumn 2026.

In figures  

The programme has supported 61 Academies since 2021, surpassing an initial plan of having 25 Academies by 2025, with almost 1000 organisations participating.

27 EU countries and almost all third countries associated to Erasmus+ have organisations participating in the Academies.

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Assessment of the initiative

The purpose of this assessment was to advise the Directorate-General for Education, Youth, Sport and Culture on future steps for the Erasmus+ Teacher Academies initiative in the early stages of implementation. It aimed to

• provide feedback on the first results from the first two generations of the Academies: 11 from the 2021 call, and 16 from the 2022 call
• inform the Commission’s evolving vision for the initiative
• identify strengths, weakness and proposed actions for scaling and improvement
• help shape the action in the context of the next generation of the Erasmus+ programme and the Union of Skills