Inkludio Training
Erasmus+ KA210
Small-scale partnerships

From theory to writing a KA210 application

Designed for newcomers and small organisations that want to step into the world of Erasmus+

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Erasmus+ KA210

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16 hours over 4 afternoonsThe seminar combines detailed theory with practical exercises on every section of the KA210 application.

This seminar is for you if…

…you are a teacher or a member of staff at a general education school, a vocational education and training provider, an adult education provider or another organisation with no experience of Erasmus+, and you want to submit your organisation's first small-scale partnership (KA210) application with at least one partner from another EU Member State or third country associated to the Programme.

Your organisation is a newcomer or has limited experience of European partnerships.

Small-scale partnerships were designed for organisations with little or no experience of the Programme: two organisations from two different countries are enough, projects last between six and twenty-four months, and the application has simpler requirements than a cooperation partnership application. In the seminar, you learn the framework of the action and how to organise your answers in the application.

You have an idea and a partner, but you do not know how to turn them into a project with objectives, activities and a budget.

A small-scale partnership convinces the evaluator when its objectives address real needs, its activities lead to specific results and its grant is allocated across activities in an appropriate and justified way. In the seminar, you learn to link objectives, activities and budget as the application requires.

You want guidance from a trainer with practical experience of assessing applications.

The trainer has been assessing Key Action 2 applications for Erasmus+ National Agencies since 2020. In the seminar, you examine each application question against the four award criteria and learn which answers score well and which do not.

What your participation includes

  • 16 hours of online training

    The seminar takes place over four afternoons via Zoom and combines clear, detailed theory with practical exercises on the different sections of the application.

  • E-workshops in small groups

    In each e-workshop, you work with other participants on hypothetical application examples based on real cases and present your group’s results to all participants.

  • Extra

    The seminar's Padlet

    The Padlet brings together Erasmus+ Programme guides, application-writing checklists and useful links. Once you register, you can access all the materials and save them to your computer. Access remains active until one week after the seminar ends.

  • Extra

    One-hour Q&A session before the submission deadline

    About two weeks before the submission deadline, you meet the trainer online for one hour, and he answers the questions you have sent in advance about your own application.

  • Certificate of attendance

    When you complete the seminar, you receive your certificate of attendance by email, at the address you provided when you registered.

After 16 hours, you will be able to:

  • understand the framework of Key Action 2 and the objectives and rules of small-scale partnerships.

  • make an informed choice between KA210 and KA220, based on your organisation’s needs and capacity.

  • read your application through an evaluator’s eyes, knowing the four award criteria and the weight of each.

  • formulate objectives that address the Programme's priorities and the needs of the organisations and target groups.

  • design activities that lead to specific results and allocate the grant across activities in an appropriate and justified way.

  • describe the partnership and each partner’s role and contribution, and plan for sharing the results and ensuring their sustainability.

The seminar programme by day

The first two days focus mainly on theory and the last two on practical group exercises, so that each day builds on the previous one.

  1. 1
    Day 1

    The KA210 framework and how it compares with KA220

    The first day introduces small-scale partnerships, the four phases of a project and the criteria an organisation uses to choose between KA210 and KA220.

    Theory

    • Participants get to know each other and the seminar's expected learning outcomes are presented.
    • The KA210 action is presented: eligible organisations, project duration, the two lump sums of €30,000 and €60,000 and the requirements for the composition of the partnership.
    • The four phases of a KA210 project are presented, from planning to evaluation and the use of the results.
    • The two partnership actions, KA210 and KA220, are compared using criteria for selecting the right action for each organisation.
  2. 2
    Day 2

    The four award criteria and the structure of the application

    The second day presents the four award criteria and analyses the KA210 application question by question, with a suggested answer structure and a link between each question and the criterion used to assess it.

    Theory

    • The four award criteria and their respective weights are presented in detail.
    • Each KA210 application question is analysed and an answer structure is proposed, linked to the criterion used to assess it.

    Practical exercises

    • You work through examples and comprehension questions that show how an evaluator reads an application.
  3. 3
    Day 3

    Objectives, relevance and activity design

    The third day is devoted to practical group work: you formulate objectives, design activities and justify the allocation of the grant, using hypothetical data.

    Practical exercises

    • You formulate objectives and connect them with Programme priorities and the needs of the organisations and target groups.
    • You design activities with clear links to the objectives and expected results.
    • You allocate the grant across activities and justify the allocation.
    • After each workshop, one group presents its worksheet to all participants, followed by discussion.
  4. 4
    Day 4

    Partnership, sharing the results, sustainability and impact

    The fourth day completes the application: you organise cooperation between the partners, plan for sharing the results and explain how they will be sustained after the project ends.

    Practical exercises

    • You select partners with complementary profiles, assign roles and organise the partnership’s coordination mechanisms.
    • You plan for sharing the results within your organisation, with other organisations and with the wider community.
    • You plan how the results will be integrated into the partners' regular work, to ensure their sustainability and impact.
    • The seminar closes with a synthesis of the work done, feedback and final questions.

What participants say about this seminar

«The seminar on planning Erasmus+ KA2 proposals was exceptionally substantial, practical and precisely focused on the real needs of an organisation seeking to submit competitive European proposals.»
«An excellent training experience! I attended the training on Erasmus+ Accreditation KA120 applications and Strategic Cooperation Partnerships KA220. The training was substantial and provided all the tools and knowledge I needed to meet the demands of the applications. Thanks to the right guidance and the expertise my team and I acquired, our accreditation application was successfully approved. I recommend Inkludio Training to anyone looking for serious and effective training!»
«I attended the seminar on the Erasmus+ KA220 application, which was very well organised, with rich training material, worksheets, discussion with examples and continuous explanations, and even practical exercises. It encouraged you to move beyond dry theory and try to apply what you had just been taught, helping you absorb it. It provides excellent expertise in planning, writing and submitting a new Erasmus+ application. Mr Barmpas's guidance as the seminar's trainer and speaker was very important, even for beginners in this field like me. Excellent throughout the presentation.»
Tasos Barmpas

Our trainer

Tasos Barmpas

  • Tasos Barmpas worked for six years at the Erasmus+ National Agency of IKY (2019–2025), first as Project Manager and then as Coordinator of Key Action 2, also responsible for the school education sector.
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From an idea to your first European partnership

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