Digital Education: AI-powered Personalised Learning Pathways for Basic Skills

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Programme Category

EU Competitive Programmes

Programme Name

Erasmus+ Programme

Programme Description

Erasmus+ is the EU’s programme to support education, training, youth and sport in Europe.
Programme Details

Identifier Code

ERASMUS-EDU-2026-POL-EXP-T03-DIGITAL-BS

Call

Digital Education: AI-powered Personalised Learning Pathways for Basic Skills

Summary

European policy experimentations are transnational cooperation projects that involve developing, implementing and testing the relevance, effectiveness, potential impact and scalability of activities to address policy priorities in different countries. By combining strategic leadership, methodological soundness, and a strong European dimension, they enable mutual learning and support evidence-based policy at European level.

Detailed Call Description

Projects under this topic will aim to foster the application of (ethical, transparent, and explainable) AI-based PLPs at school education and initial VET level, specifically addressing learners at EQF levels 1 to 4.

The projects should target one or more of the basic skills[1] focusing on the priorities below (projects should show awareness of all priorities, but the depth and focus can vary depending on the project’s scope):

  • Support the deployment of AI-powered PLPs for basic skills development: leveraging PLPs that use AI, machine learning, or other innovative methods to tailor learning journey, content and pace to individual learners’ needs.
  • Improve basic skills acquisition: improving learners’ skills in the basic skills set, as laid out in the Action Plan on Basic Skills, to enhance their learning process and increase their employability and participation in society, through an interdisciplinary approach.
  • Measure the improvement of basic skills education: learning progress and basic skills development should be made measurable through student and teacher dashboards and learning analytics, complemented by systematic feedback collection from learners and educators.
  • Enhance innovative pedagogies and approaches, by supporting adaptive, data-driven teaching, learning, and assessment methods (such as micro-learning and competency-based progress) enabling schools to foster effective, learner-centred, and inclusive environments that strengthen basic skills, to enhance the effectiveness education and training for basic skills provision.
  • Foster a level-playing field among learners: proposing innovative pedagogical approaches to use AI-based PLPs in a collaborative environment that supports learners at different levels of attainment to progress together and inclusively towards shared learning goals.
  • Promote an effective and ethical use of AI in education, ensuring the AI systems used are transparent, explainable, ethical and in accordance with European data and privacy regulations.

Call Total Budget

€5.000.000

Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan

80%

Thematic Categories

  • Education and training
  • Research, Technological Development and Innovation

Eligibility for Participation

  • Businesses
  • Educational Institutions
  • Local Authorities
  • Natual person / Citizen / Individual
  • Non Profit Organisations
  • Other Beneficiaries

Eligibility For Participation Notes

In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must:

  • be legal entities (public or private bodies) active in the field of education and training, research and innovation or in the world of work.
  • be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.:
    • Erasmus+ Programme Countries:
    • EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs))
  • for higher education institutions (HEIs) established in Erasmus+ Programme Countries (see above): be holders of a valid ECHE certificate (Erasmus Charter for Higher Education).

Beneficiaries and affiliated entities must register in the Participant Register — before submitting the proposal — and will have to be validated by the Central Validation Service (REA Validation). For the validation, they will be requested to upload documents showing legal status and origin.

Call Opening Date

06/01/2026

Call Closing Date

08/04/2026

National Contact Point(s)

Foundation for the Management of European (EU) Lifelong Learning Programmes

Website: Erasmus+ – IDEP
Website with Contact details: Εpikoinonia – Erasmus+ – IDEP
Address: Prodromou & Dimitrakopoulou 2, Nicosia 1090, Cyprus
Τelephone: +357 22448888
Email: info@idep.org.cy

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