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REPORT (COM(2025)0549 – C100170/2025 – 2025/0222(COD))

On the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing the Erasmus+ programme for the period 2028-2034, and repealing Regulations (EU) 2021/817 and (EU) 2021/888

A-10-2026-0257

Committee on Culture and Education · Rapporteur: Bogdan Andrzej Zdrojewski

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Parliament's amended version of the Commission proposal sets up Erasmus+ for 2028-2034, merging in the European Solidarity Corps and the European Voluntary Humanitarian Aid Corps. It raises the programme envelope to EUR 47 387 963 000 in current prices and adds an indicative split of funds across fields. It requires European added value, sets a 20 % target for participants with fewer opportunities, and requires at least 75 % of the budget to run through national agencies. It makes work programmes delegated acts, adds monitoring indicators and rules on protecting the Union's financial interests.

Committee position. The Committee on Culture and Education proposes to adopt Parliament's first-reading position amending the Commission proposal: a larger budget with earmarking, delegated acts for work programmes, stronger inclusion targets, and safeguards for Union values and financial interests.

Key points

  1. The Programme covers education and training, youth and volunteering, and sport, and sets up the European Voluntary Humanitarian Aid Corps.
  2. Only actions with European added value may be funded; added value can come from a transnational character, synergies with other policies, or use of Union recognition tools.
  3. The general objective is high-quality and inclusive lifelong learning that fosters Union values, democratic participation, solidarity and equal opportunities.
  4. Learning mobility is split into separate articles for education and training, for youth and volunteering, and for sport.
  5. Erasmus+ scholarships in strategic fields must be co-funded from additional resources or another Union programme and capped at the maximum monthly mobility grant.
  6. The Commission, member states and associated countries must ensure inclusion; at least 20 % of all mobility participants must be people with fewer opportunities.
  7. The programme envelope is set at EUR 47 387 963 000 in current prices (EUR 42 000 000 000 in 2025 prices), with an indicative distribution across fields.
  8. At least 75 % of the programme budget must be implemented under indirect management by the national agencies.
  9. Work programmes, including amounts per action and funds per country, are adopted by delegated act, as are amendments to the monitoring indicators.
  10. Award procedures must screen applicants for compliance with Article 2 values, with ex post sanctions up to recovery of funds.
  11. The Commission must protect the Union's financial interests, and OLAF and the EPPO may investigate funding under the Programme.
  12. Member states and associated countries must remove legal and administrative obstacles to participation, including visa and residence permit difficulties.

Who is affected

  • Learners, staff, young people and volunteers, who gain mobility and volunteering opportunities, with a 20 % inclusion target.
  • National agencies, which implement at least 75 % of the budget and must adopt national inclusion and diversity action plans.
  • Third countries, which may associate fully or partially under conditions protecting Union values and financial interests.
  • Small and newcomer organisations, for which procedures are simplified and digitalised.

Figures and deadlines

  • EUR 47 387 963 000 in current prices: programme envelope for 2028-2034.
  • EUR 42 000 000 000 in 2025 prices: same envelope expressed in 2025 prices.
  • 74,6 % of the envelope: indicative share for education and training actions.
  • At least 20 % of all mobility participants: people with fewer opportunities.
  • At least 75 % of the programme budget: implemented under indirect management by national agencies.
  • Over 50 % of annual revenue from public sources over the last two years: entities deemed to have financial and operational capacity.
  • Aged between 18 and 35 years: volunteers in the European Voluntary Humanitarian Aid Corps.
  • Aged between 18 and 30 years: volunteers under the definition of volunteering.

Legal basis: Article 294(2) and Articles 165(4), 166(4) and 214(5) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union.