European Commission publishes final assessment of Erasmus+ Teacher Academies
A final evaluation report released by the European Commission's education directorate says 61 Teacher Academies have been funded since 2021, well beyond the original target of 25 by 2025, with about 1,000 institutions taking part.
The European Commission’s Directorate-General for Education, Youth, Sport and Culture has published the final report of its assessment of the Erasmus+ Teacher Academies initiative, posting the English-language document to its resources and documents library on July 24, 2026.
According to the release, 61 Teacher Academies have been supported since the initiative began in 2021 — a figure that overshoots the original plan of establishing 25 academies by 2025. Around 1,000 institutions have taken part, drawn from all 27 EU member states as well as from most of the third countries associated to the Erasmus+ programme.
The Teacher Academies are structured as European-level partnerships bringing together teacher education and training institutions, schools, school authorities and other school-education stakeholders. The Commission says they support both initial teacher education for student teachers and the continuing professional development of serving teachers, operating by setting up learning opportunities such as courses and modules that address current and emerging challenges inside and outside the classroom.
The scheme sits within Key Action 2 of Erasmus+, the strand covering partnerships for excellence, and is managed by the European Education and Culture Executive Agency. The stated purpose of the assessment was to advise the Directorate-General on the future direction of the initiative at this early stage of implementation.
No call for proposals is currently open. The Commission said the next call, for 2027, is due to be published in the autumn of 2026.