Funding in Nordplus Adult

In Nordplus Adult two types of projects are funded: mobility projects and collaboration projects.

Grants are based on the completion of activities, not actual costs. The grants are fixed unit costs for different activities. If all activities are carried out as agreed in the contract, the partnership is entitled to keep the allocated grant no matter what the real costs have been.

Nordplus only covers part of the costs. All participating organisations must co-finance the project, but the co-financing must not be documented at application or reporting stage.

There is no fixed ceiling per project, but the total programme budget is about 1.2 million € per year. Budgets are assessed based on the project's goals and scale.

Typical two-year grant (3–4 partners): Approximately 50,000 €

Mobility and development projects operate with two different unit cost systems described below.

Mobility projects

Grants are based on the number of participants, travel distances, host country, and length of stay. These are calculated automatically in the application system.

Travel (round-trip per participant)

Route	Amount
Greenland	1,300 €
Faroe Islands and Iceland	660 €
Between Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Sweden and Åland	330 €
Domestic	175 €

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)

Participant type	Per Day	Per Week	Per Month
Adult learners (students)	70 €	250 €	750 €
Teachers and staff	100 €	500 €	1,350 €

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 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.

Eligibility:

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

Rates for project management:

Coordinator: 2000 €
Partner: 1000 €

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 organisations. Nordplus funding for travel and subsistence cannot be spent on participants without formal link to the partnership organisations.

Collaboration projects

Grants are based on fixed unit costs for travel/subsistence for transnational project meetings, project management and working days for development work for development and mapping projects. The grants are automatically calculated in the Nordplus Adult budget template (Excel file), which can be found here

Transnational project meetings

Supports travel and accommodation for staff to attend partner meetings for planning, coordination, and small internal seminars. 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 or autonomous regions, which are represented in the partnership.

Please also note that all traveling 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)

Route	Amount
Greenland	1,600 €
Faroe Islands and Iceland	960 €
Between Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Sweden and Åland	630 €
Domestic	175 €
Domestic (travel + subsistence)	475 €

The unit cost for domestic travel and subsistence can be applied for by participants from partner institution(s) in the same country as the hosting institution if the distance between the address of the partner 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 product development is eligible—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.

Budget model

Nordplus Adult budget model 2026

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

Inclusion support

Additional funding is available (up to 100% of actual costs) for participants with inclusion needs.
Examples: interpreters, accompanying persons, single rooms.

You can apply:

In the application, if needs are known
Later via email to nordplus@ufm.dk, if new needs arise

Payment of the grant

Depending on the sum of the grant, the payment may vary. Projects awarded more than 15,000 euros will receive 80 percent of the grant within 45 days after the programme office has received the signed programme document.

When the project cooperation has been completed, and the coordinating institution has submitted the final report and financial statement, a financial assessment will be made, and the remaining amount (up to 20 percent) will be paid out.

For projects awarded up to 15,000 euros, the entire grant is paid in one instalment.