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If you manage EU projects, October 7–9 in Verona, Italy is where you need to be.

PM AGORA 2026 is here and it's bigger than ever!

Now in its third edition, PM Agora isn't your typical conference where you sit in rows and watch slides go by. This is a co-creation space where EU project professionals from across Europe don't just attend, they shape the profession together... organised in 4 powerful themes:
🔹 The future of EU project management
🔹 Skills, new tools & professional growth
🔹 Community, identity & collective voice
🔹 Wellbeing at work

Over 90 organisations from 20+ countries have already been part of this conversation. Will yours be next?

And we're not starting on a boring Monday morning. October 7th kicks off with a welcome evening at Tigella Bella Sottoriva with drinks, live music by N**o Confuso, and the kind of conversations that don't need an agenda.

Oh... and this year we've added a dedicated Junior Project Manager ticket. Because fresh perspectives don't just belong in this room, they make this room!

📍 Verona, Italy, a UNESCO World Heritage city and the home of Romeo & Juliet. Not a bad backdrop for building the future of a profession,... wouldn't you agree?

🎟️ Early Bird tickets are available until July 1st. Don't be the person who misses the deadline.

👉 Register now at pmagora.eu

Verona is waiting. And so are we. 🇮🇹

Proudly co-organised by T-hap, Academy of Entrepreneurship, InnoEUsphere & Glocal Factory.

🏛️ EU Project Managers ... Verona is calling!

PM Agora 2026 is ON. October 7–9 in the City of Love, in Italy of course... where else?
Learn. Connect. Shape the future of your profession, but let's do it together!

🎟️ Early Bird tickets available until July 1st.
👉 pmagora.eu

Academy of Entrepreneurship Council of the European Union T-hap Glocal Factory

“The most important period of life is not the age of university studies, but the first one, the period from birth to the age of six.” — Maria Montessori

🌱 Europe had nearly €5 billion in Erasmus+ funding available for 2025, and early childhood education is one of its most underfunded yet highest-impact priorities.

Three things every EU project manager in education needs to know:
📌 The EU’s 2019 Quality Framework defines five measurable pillars, your proposal must address them explicitly, not rhetorically.
📌 Inclusion is now a scored evaluation criterion. Vague commitments cost points in competitive KA2 rounds.
📌 Professional development of ECEC staff remains the single most evidenced lever for quality outcomes — and the strongest hook for your theory of change.

If you’re designing or reviewing an ECEC-focused Erasmus+ project, this article gives you the framework, the data, and the compliance red flags you need. You may read it here → https://talentlab.works/early-childhood-education-excellence-erasmus-plus-projects/

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."
W.B. Yeats

Europe's teachers and school leaders are navigating a widening professional development gap and Erasmus+ remains the only EU programme with the scale, funding, and architecture to close it.

With €26 billion committed through 2027 and nearly 1.5 million participants in 2024, KA1 mobility and the new 2026 KA2 school partnerships offer education professionals a fully funded, strategically structured route to real institutional change.

But funding alone is not a strategy. The schools that benefit most are those that begin with a rigorous needs assessment and a coherent European Development Plan.

Read the full analysis on the TalentLab website: https://talentlab.works/empowering-teachers-school-leaders-erasmus-plus/

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."
Nelson Mandela
.. and yet across the EU, 3.1 million young people are still leaving school without the skills to compete, participate, or contribute!

Here's what every Erasmus+ project professional should know:
- 9.4% early school leaving in 2024, with rural Romania reaching 26.3% (Eurostat).
- PISA 2022: 31% of students below minimum maths proficiency... a silent workforce crisis.
- Erasmus+ KA2 projects that invest in teacher development & cross-sector partnerships deliver 59.5% measurable competence gains.

Designing and managing these projects requires more than ambition, it requires a structured playbook.

Read the full article here: https://talentlab.works/basic-skills-development-erasmus-plus-school-education/

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