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Partnerships (LdV)

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Leonardo da Vinci Partnerships provide a framework for small-scale cooperation activities between VET organisations enabling them to cooperate on themes of mutual interest. Partnership projects are about co-operation and exchange of information at a European level.

Projects may focus more on active participation of trainees or may concentrate on cooperation between:

  • teachers, trainers or VET-professionals.
  • VET schools or institutions
  • enterprises, social partners or other VET stakeholders.

Partners can cooperate at national, regional or local level, but also at sectoral level, such as within VET-fields or economic sectors. Partners work on a specific topic or theme and are able to visit each other to share their experiences and practices.

BenefitsPartnerships allow you to work with similar organisations from across Europe to share good practice, discuss problems and compare solutions on a particular topic.
Funding

The levels of funding available in each country vary; each member of a partnership applies to its own National Agency for funding. Partnership funding is given to each partner as a lump sum and forms a contribution to all eligible costs for both local activities and mobility (travel/exchange) activities, i.e. travel, subsistence, local project activities, etc.

Partnership lump sum funding is based on the number of people who will travel to a partner during the project (one person travelling = one "mobility"). So for example, in Ireland a small Leonardo Partnership project, which has to commit to a minimum of four mobilities, will be awarded the lump sum of €10,000 for two years.

The different sizes of Leonardo Partnerships and the funding allocated in Ireland are:

  • Minimum of 4 mobilities €10,000
  • Minimum of 8 mobilities €14,000
  • Minimum of 12 mobilities €18,000
  • Minimum of 24 mobilities €24,000