Erasmus+ Youth:
the programme’s objectives

An essential & highly influential programme

Erasmus+ Youth is the European Union’s learning mobility programme for young people and youth work organisations, networks and institutions. The programme seeks to strengthen European identity and citizenship through intercultural dialogue and non-formal learning. It has a wide range of policy and programme objectives. Our research shows that funded projects contribute successfully to all objectives and substantively support “making the most of youth policy’s potential” and “fostering youth participation in democratic life”, the core ambition and overarching objective of the EU Youth Strategy 2019–2027.

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The RAY Network is the open research network of National Agencies of the European youth programmes and their research partners.

Contribution to general Erasmus+ programme objectives

The projects in the field of youth contribute to the general programme objectives of the Erasmus+ Programme as follows, according to 3.845 responding project team members:

… to support the personal development of project participants

83%

… to support the educational development of project participants

75%

… to strengthen active citizenship

67%

… to strengthen social cohesion in Europe

61%

… to strengthen European identity

61%

… to support the professional development of project participants

57%

… to advance youth policy cooperation

41%

 Contribution to sector-specific objectives of Erasmus+ Youth

For the contribution of projects to the sector-specific objectives of Erasmus+ Youth, we asked the 3.845 project team members to pick up to three objectives to which their project contributed the most:

… to promote active participation among young people

63%

… to promote non-formal learning mobility

60%

… to strengthen cooperation at the level of organisations

33%

… to strengthen creativity at the level of organisations

27%

… to strengthen inclusion at the level of organisations

26%

… to strengthen quality at the level of organisations

20%

… to strengthen innovation at the level of organisations

16%

… to strengthen inclusion at the level of policies

12%

… to strengthen creativity at the level of policies

11%

… to strengthen cooperation at the level of policies

8%

… to strengthen innovation at the level of policies

6%

… to strengthen quality at the level of policies

6%

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