Erasmus+ provides various tools and opportunities to find partners for your mobility activities, and the tool depends on your field:
🧭 Otlas: Otlas is a central online partner finding tool for organisations in the youth field.
🏫 European School Education Platform (ESEP): the European School Education Platform offers an online partner-finding tool for vocational education and training (VET) and school education organisations.
📚 EPALE: the Electronic Platform for Adult Learning in Europe offers a Partner-search tool useful to find partners to prepare an EU-funded project or to find or offer a job shadowing opportunity.
🎟️ Training and Cooperation Activities (TCAs): Training and Cooperation Activities are organised by Erasmus+ National Agencies, and contact seminars are an efficient way to find partners for newcomers.
🔍 Project Results Platform: the Erasmus+ Project Results Platform allows you to search for all accredited organisations and approved projects.
Our guide on Cooperation Partnerships and our guide on Small-scale Partnerships explain the projects that need partners.
Last updated: November 2026.
Which tool should a youth organisation use?
Otlas is a central online partner finding tool for organisations in the youth field, developed and hosted by the SALTO-Youth Resource Centres. Organisations can register their contact details and areas of interest in Otlas, and create partner requests for project ideas. Training and Cooperation Activities are regularly organised by Erasmus+ National Agencies and include contact seminars, online events and other partner-finding opportunities for Erasmus+ applicants and beneficiaries. In particular, contact seminars are an efficient way to find partners for newcomers. Participants in a TCA can represent institutions that are already participating in the Erasmus+ Programme or planning to apply for a grant. Information about TCAs is available in the European Training Calendar. Many training courses, seminars and study visits published on the SALTO European Training Calendar are Training and Cooperation Activities. Our guides on training courses, seminars and study visits explain those formats, and our guide on how to plan a Youth Exchange covers working with partners.
Which tools are for schools, vocational and adult education?
The European School Education Platform (ESEP) offers an online partner-finding tool for VET and school education organisations. By registering on the platform, you can post partner-finding announcements and search through announcements made by other organisations. Teachers and schools participating in eTwinning, an online community funded by Erasmus+, receive support from their National Support Organisations (NSO), which assist schools during the process of registration, partner finding and project activity. For adult education, EPALE, the Electronic Platform for adult learning in Europe, offers an online partner-finding tool. By registering on EPALE, you can post partner-finding announcements and search through announcements made by other organisations. Our guide on how to bring Erasmus+ to your school covers the school route.
How do you find a European Solidarity Corps partner?
In the European Solidarity Corps, profiles of all organisations holding a Quality Label are published in a database of Quality Label organisations in order to facilitate partner-finding. You can find all organisations holding a Quality Label on the European Youth Portal. For Humanitarian Aid Volunteering, the partner searching tool on the Funding and Tender Opportunities Portal can be used to identify potential partners. Our guide on the ESC Quality Label explains the label, and our guide on supporting organisations explains the support role.
How do you check a partner before you sign?
The Erasmus+ Project Results Platform allows you to search for all accredited organisations and approved projects. The Erasmus+ Project Results Platform provides access to information and results concerning all projects funded under the Erasmus+ Programme. To check that an Erasmus+ youth organisation (Youth Exchange, training course) is real, ask the organisation for its Organisation ID (OID) and for its previous projects. You can also ask the National Agency of your own country about the organisation. Our guide on the Organisation ID explains the OID, our guide on National Agencies explains the agency in your country, and our guide on how we verify opportunities shows our own checks.
Can a group of young people find an organisation to work with?
Yes: the partner-finding tools (Otlas, the Quality Label database, the Youth Works Hub organisations page) can also be used by a group of young people looking for an experienced organisation. In Youth Participation Activities, a group without an organisation can apply only as an informal group, and an informal group applies to the National Agency of the country where its legal representative lives. Our guide on Youth Participation Activities explains the format.
Can Youth Works Hub help?
Yes: organisations can open a page on Youth Works Hub to publish opportunities and posts. Youth Works Hub checks what organisations publish from their own pages, but the content organisations share from their own profiles is entirely the responsibility of those organisations.
Frequently asked questions
Can we find partners through the Project Results Platform?
Yes: the Erasmus+ Project Results Platform allows you to search for all accredited organisations and approved projects. Our guide on dissemination and impact covers the sharing of project results.
Is there a partner search for Humanitarian Aid Volunteering?
Yes: for Humanitarian Aid Volunteering, the partner searching tool on the Funding and Tender Opportunities Portal can be used to identify potential partners. Our guide on Humanitarian Aid Volunteering explains that separate strand.
Who can take part in Training and Cooperation Activities?
Participants in a TCA can represent institutions that are already participating in the Erasmus+ Programme or planning to apply for a grant. Our guide on how to plan a Youth Exchange covers the steps once you have a partner.
Where should you look first?
Otlas is a central online partner finding tool for organisations in the youth field. Contact seminars are an efficient way to find partners for newcomers. Organisations can open a page on Youth Works Hub to publish opportunities and posts. The Youth Works Hub pages below cover the next steps.
Related pages: Cooperation Partnerships · Small-scale Partnerships · the ESC Quality Label · the Organisation ID · National Agencies explained
👉 Erasmus+ projects: youthworkshub.org/?tab=erasmus-projects
👉 ESC projects: youthworkshub.org/?tab=esc-projects
