Funding in Nordplus Adult  

Travel (round-trip per participant)

*The unit cost for domestic travel is an addition to the unit costs for transnational travel. Grants for domestic travel can be applied for in the home country when the distance between the participating organisation’s address and the airport, train or bus station of international departure is more than 250 km. Domestic travel can also be applied for in the host country when the distance between the airport, train or bus station of arrival and the address of the hosting organisation is more than 250 km.

Subsistence (per participant)

Subsistence is designed to cover the entire stay, including usually two travel days.

Project management grant

Supports all kinds of project-related costs for managing and implementing the mobility project.

Costs may be any type of costs of coordinating and participating in a mobility project such as

• Accounting
• Reporting
• Preparing meetings and activities, live or virtual
• Dissemination (e.g., publications, social media, translation, events)
• Extra costs for implementing the project in a sustainable way, e.g. extra costs for green travel

Eligibility:

• Only for "Exchange of teachers and other adult education staff" and "Exchange of adult learners". Not for preparatory visits
• Only for projects applying for a travel/subsistence grant of minimum 10,000 € or 15 travelling participants

Rates for project management:

• Coordinator: 2000 €
• Partner: 1000 € each

Mobility stays can only take place in programme countries or autonomous regions, which are represented in the partnership.

All traveling participants in mobility projects must have a formal link to the partnership organisations, i.e. be employees, volunteers or enrolled adult learners in the partnership organisations. Nordplus funding for travel and subsistence cannot be spent on participants without formal link to the partnership organisations.

Project management grant 

Supports all kinds of project-related costs for managing and implementing the collaboration project.

Costs may be any type of costs of coordinating and participating in a collaboration project such as

• Accounting
• Reporting
• Preparing meetings and activities, live ore virtual
• Dissemination (e.g., publications, social media, translation, events)
• Extra costs for implementing the project in a sustainable way, e.g. extra costs for green travel

Rates for project management 

• Coordinator: 4000 €
• Partner: 2000 € each

Transnational project meetings

Supports travel and accommodation for staff of the partnership organisations to attend partner meetings for planning, coordination, and small internal seminars. Adult learners enrolled in the partnership organisations may also participate in project meetings, e.g. in order to test developed products. Costs for events with persons outside the partnership are to be covered by the grant for project management, which is described above.

Transnational project meetings can only take place in programme countries, which are represented in the partnership.

Please also note that all travelling participants to transnational project meetings must have a formal link to the partnership organisations, i.e. be employees, volunteers or adult learners in the organisations. Nordplus funding for transnational project meetings cannot be spent on participants without formal link to the partnership organisations.

The grant includes both travel and subsistence.

Rates per participant (round-trip)

*The unit cost for domestic travel is an addition to the unit costs for transnational travel. Grants for domestic travel can be applied for in the home country when the distance between the participating organisation’s address and the airport, train or bus station of international departure is more than 250 km. Domestic travel can also be applied for in the host country when the distance between the airport, train or bus station of arrival and the address of the hosting organisation is more than 250 km.

**The unit cost for domestic travel and subsistence can be applied for by participants from partnership institution(s) located in the same country as the hosting institution if the distance between the address of the partnership organisation and the address of the hosting organisation is more than 250 km.

Development work grant

Supports working days spent on the development of specific products for development and mapping projects. Thematic networks are not eligible for this grant. Products must be tangible and shareable with external target groups, e.g.

• Curricula
• IT tools
• Analyses
• Reports
• Teaching tools
• Open source materials

Specify the number of working days per institution in the application. Only working time spent on product development can be covered with the grant for development work—not general project work.

Rates per working day:

• Baltic countries: 125 €
• Nordic countries: 250 €

Grant limit

In Nordplus Adult, the total number of working days per organisation can exceed 40 days only in exceptional cases, which must be explicitly justified in the application.

Development work must be carried out by employees or volunteers with a formal link to the partnership organisations. The grant cannot be spent on external service providers

Ineligible costs

These costs are not eligible under Nordplus Adult:

• General overheads not linked to specific activities
• Office or IT equipment
• Costs for non-Nordic/Baltic participants
• Activities outside the Nordic and Baltic regions

When submitting your application, you must also attach a completed budget template.

Nordplus Adult budget template 2026