3^rd Call for WBAA Projects 2022, competition process and deadlines

Important: Please note that for this call, the time before the submission deadline is only 4 weeks. The same goes for the evaluation and elaboration phase, which will be 4 weeks long.

First Phase, WBAA Projects competition

Launch of call: 28 Nov 2022

Submission deadline: 04 Jan 2023, 12:00 CET

Project selection: until 01 Feb 2023

Second Phase, WBAA Projects Elaboration

Project Design: Starts on 02 Feb 2023

End of the Elaboration Phase: 02 Mar 2023

Third Phase, WBAA Projects Implementation : March to 30 September 2023

The respective WBAA Project Coordinator of the funded project will implement the WBAA Project and will be supported by the Service Provider (contracts and payments) within the agreed timeline but no longer than the following months March 2023 to September 2023. No extensions will be accepted.

Supported project topics

The WBAA Project Ideas should be aligned with one of the five well-known cluster topics:

• Cluster 1: Events for Erasmus+ and WBAA promotion. This cluster aims to support the promotion of Erasmus+ and WBAA and to increase participation in Erasmus+ and WBAA initiatives and programmes.
• Cluster 2: Training sessions for volunteers and WBAA activists (capacity building, career development, project, or entrepreneurship skills, etc.).
• Cluster 3: Projects promoting research in Higher Education.
• Cluster 4: Projects promoting modernisation and internationalisation of Higher Education in the region. This cluster looks to encourage projects that serve to improve higher education.
• Cluster 5: Other outreach projects providing knowledge exchange and networking opportunities.

Relevant other points:

• A WBAA Board members cannot be the project coordinator. Should a WBAA board member hand in a project as the coordinator, the project cannot be considered.
• A WBAA Project proposal is only eligible to be selected if at least two chapters are involved, and the involvement of multiple chapters has a positive influence on the selection.
• The European Year of Skills is not a theme but linkages with the annual events are welcome.
• We kindly advise to consider the potential physical and social restrictions in your project idea due to possible Corona restrictions, even though the situation is currently not as tense in most countries.
• The project can entail a maximum of 2 events while each event can last for a maximum of 5 days. The project coordinator has to be present at the events. For events, up to 30 participants are allowed to partake.

WBAA Project sizes

All Project Ideas from small to medium projects (up to 8.500 EUR including taxes) are welcome and can be supported.

The final project budget will be fixed in the second phase, when approved by The European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Hence the submission of a project idea needs to include a realistic budget estimation.

Eligible costs for WBAA Projects

Please review the “Eligible costs and budgetary framework” document (included in the additional information and templates section of the call for projects in the WBAA online community platform) where the eligible costs and budgetary framework is further explained. There you can find some examples of costs that can be covered, you will also find examples of what cannot be covered by this scheme. It is not allowed to purchase goods or equipment or to pay daily rates or salaries to alumni. We do not reimburse fuel, highway tolls. We advise to rent needed goods and equipment.

Submission criteria

1. Submitters must be members of WBAA.
2. We encourage partnerships with other organisations for the purposes of the WBAA Projects scheme. However, non-WBAA partner organisations do not meet the criteria for applications. Therefore, they can only be part of a project but cannot apply as a stand-alone.
3. Applicants may submit several project ideas, but only one project will be granted per person and call.

For all additional information, please visit the website of the call!