The Regional Erasmus+ Cluster Meeting and Contact-Making Seminar 2025 for Asia, the Middle East and the Pacific took place in Colombo (Sri Lanka) on 18 and 19 November 2025, and was streamed online via Zoom.
The event was part of the Regional Erasmus+ Week for Asia, the Middle East and the Pacific, organised by the Directorate-General for Education, Youth, Sport and Culture (DG EAC) of the European Commission and the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA).
Cluster Meeting
The meeting was opened by the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, Dr. Harini Amarasuriya and Carmen Moreno, Ambassador of the European Union to Sri Lanka.
It gathered higher education plus vocational education and training institutions from Europe, Asia, the Middle East and the Pacific, which were already active in the Erasmus+ programme or potentially interested in developing cooperation under this scheme. Participants were joined by stakeholders involved in the implementation and promotion of the Erasmus+ programme, such as the Asian, Middle Eastern and Pacific Erasmus+ National Focal Points, Erasmus+ National Agencies, European Union Delegations in the three regions, the European Commission and the European Education and Culture Executive Agency.
This year’s event addressed the role of education in Green Transition. The cluster meeting gave opportunities to showcase successful Erasmus+ mobility and cooperation projects, linking European, Asian, Middle Eastern and Pacific education institutions, and focusing on the transversal programme priority “Environment and fight against climate change”.
Contact-making sessions
The online and in-situ speed-networking sessions enabled participants to meet and engage with each other, with a view to forming project partnerships.
In-situ participants had the opportunity to firstly attend an in-situ speed-networking session, and then a networking workshop on project building.
Online attendees could join an online Erasmus+ speed-networking session on 18 November 2025.
The agenda and list of speakers/biographies can be downloaded below, along with copies of the presentations delivered during the event.
The compendium of Erasmus+ projects related to the green transition in Asia, the Middle East and the Pacific regions can be downloaded from:
You can also view the recordings of the sessions:
Session 1 - Morning of 18/11/2025
Session 2 - Afternoon of 18/11/2025
Session 3 - Morning of 19/11/2025
