Updated 31 August 2026

The course catalogue closed. Here's where to look now.

If you're here because the course search on the European School Education Platform came back empty — you're not doing it wrong. Since 27 May 2026, the catalogue no longer shows courses from external providers. Only the Commission's own online courses remain.

What actually happened

The platform's release notes (release 7.11) record the removal, and the official support article explains why: the catalogue had grown too large to guarantee quality — the Commission describes trying written reviews, participant-report ratings and quality standards, each facing "challenges in implementation and in enforcement, due to legal limitations" — while the public catalogue also attracted cybersecurity problems.

Where coordinators find courses now

• Provider websites, directly. Established providers publish their own catalogues with dates and prices. Word of mouth between coordinators has become the main discovery channel — ask colleagues who ran mobility last year.
• Independent aggregators. New comparison sites have appeared listing verified providers across Europe. Useful for comparing dates and prices in one place.
• The ESEP organisation pages. The catalogue closed, but organisation profiles remain — you can still check a provider's registered profile and OID there.
• EPALE for adult education, and your national agency's contact seminars — where providers and coordinators actually meet.

How to vet a provider yourself (the checklist)

The catalogue's quality filter is gone, so the vetting is yours now. The good news: the Quality Standards for KA1 courses are effectively a published checklist. Before you enrol anyone, a provider should show you — in public, before payment:

• Full programme with at least 5 hours of learning activities per day, active methodology (not lectures)
• Trainer names and track record — who exactly teaches, with what experience
• Fees published with a breakdown of what they cover; optional services priced separately, never bundled
• Group size and composition information — an international group is a Programme requirement
• Free cancellation if price, content, dates or venue change
• A named certificate plus a Europass Mobility document at the end
• A verifiable identity: legal name, country of establishment, OID

Any provider annoyed by these questions has answered them. (Ours are on every session page, and our identity is on one page — that's the standard the catalogue's closure should push the whole market towards.)