On Monday 7 April 2014, the European Commission, together with the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency, will host in Brussels an information meeting for high-level public authorities on European policy experimentations, the new action launched under Key Action 3 – Prospective Initiatives of the Erasmus+ programme.

European policy experimentations under Erasmus+ have to comply with two major requirements:

• they must be led by high‑level public authorities, who should play a major strategic function in the development and implementation of the projects,
• the 'field trials' conducted in the framework of the policy experimentations should be based on rigorous evaluation methodologies.

The meeting will specifically address the role of high-level public authorities in this context, on the basis of the 2014 Erasmus+ call for proposals on European policy experimentations.

Agenda and presentations:

•  Agenda
•  Outline of the Call for proposals on "European Policy Experimentations"
•  Priority themes of the Call for proposals
  • Education:
    1. Assessment of transversal skills in basic and secondary education
    2. Practical entrepreneurial experience at school
    3. Cooperation on innovative methods for fast and smooth academic recognition across borders in higher education
    4. Reducing the number of low skilled adults
  • Youth
    1. Encouraging the development and internationalisation of young people’s volunteering
•  Methodological considerations on field trial approaches
•  How to prepare and submit the application