Erasmus+ KA1 · Accreditation
Erasmus accreditation, step by step
Accreditation turns Erasmus+ from a one-off project into a yearly budget. Here is the whole road, in order, with a guide for each step.
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Decide whether accreditation is for you
A short-term project is simpler, but it has limits: up to 30 participants, 1 application per round and at most 3 grants in five consecutive call years. Accreditation gives permanent access to funding instead.
KA120, KA121 or KA122: which one is for you - 2
Understand what the accreditation is and how it is scored
What it gets you, who can apply, and how evaluators score the application.
Erasmus accreditation: how it actually works - 3
Write your Erasmus Plan
The heart of the application: your objectives, the activities that serve them, and how you will manage them.
The Erasmus Plan: what evaluators actually score - 4
Fill in the application form
What each section of the form is really asking, and which scoring criterion it feeds.
The KA120 application, section by section - 5
Submit by 29 September 2026, 12:00 Brussels
Accreditations granted under Call 2026 are valid from 1 February 2027.
All Erasmus+ KA1 deadlines - 6
Once accredited: request funding every year
Request your yearly grant (KA121) by 19 February 2026, 12:00 Brussels. Each yearly project lasts 15 months, extendable to 24, and closes with a final report.
How an Erasmus+ project runs, from start to final report
Not ready to accredit alone? A mobility consortium lets a coordinator, often a regional authority, run mobility for several schools under one accreditation. How consortia work.
Advice is allowed. Paid writing is not. When you sign, you declare that no one external was paid to write your application. We teach coordinators to write their own; we never write it for them. Why.