Taith Pathway 2 - Partnerships and Strategic Collaboration - 2025

Staff costs

This is a contribution to the staffing costs required to enable the project to take place. Funding in this category can only be used for staffing costs directly related to the development, creation and dissemination of the project output. Costs for each staff member involved in the project must be clearly justified in the application form.

Project management and implementation

A contribution to costs to enable the activity to take place. These could include, but are not limited to, meeting room hire, refreshments, facilitation costs, translation of materials related to the project output, simultaneous translation for events, training sessions and seminars, administrative costs etc. Light refreshments/lunch costs are eligible but must be reasonable and present value for money.

International partners are eligible to receive up to 30% of the total grant requested.

Ineligible costs:

• Overheads
• Gifts
• Merchandise
• Staff costs
• Alcohol
• Sponsorship of events/conferences

If you have questions or want to check that the activities or costs you are planning are eligible, please get in touch with the team at enquiries@taith.wales

Dissemination costs

A contribution to the costs of sharing and disseminating the project output across the sector(s) within Wales and internationally. Eligible costs include, but are not limited to, events, marketing, production of reports, translation, development of online resources, development of a digital application or online platform. Light refreshments/lunch costs are eligible but must be reasonable and present value for money.

Ineligible costs:

• Overheads
• Gifts
• Staff costs
• Alcohol
• Sponsorship of events/conferences

Any dissemination activities and resources created through Pathway 2 must be free of charge to all and remain so for as long as they are used and shared. These resources cannot be developed or used for commercial purposes.

International partners are eligible to receive up to 30% of the total grant requested. If you have questions or want to check that the activities or costs you are planning are eligible, please get in touch with the team at enquiries@taith.wales

Mobilities

Funding is available to contribute towards the cost of international travel for staff and learners to a partner country, and for the international partner(s) to travel to Wales.

There is an expectation that you will send more participants from Wales to the international partner destination, than you will bring to Wales.  However, it is permitted to split the mobility funding equally to allow the same number of inward and outward participants.

For staff mobilities, you must provide a clear rationale for the involvement of each staff member and what they will contribute to the development of the project and output. Where multiple staff mobilities are included, it is especially important to clearly explain the separate roles of each participant, and why their involvement is essential to the project.

Learners can participate in group mobilities only and individual learner mobilities are not eligible. Where a group of learners are included, a clear explanation of why their involvement in the project is essential to the development of the project and output should be provided.

Eligible mobility durations for staff and learners are a minimum of 2 days and a maximum of 28 days.

Taith funds the travel costs of thousands of international mobilities, most of which are flights, resulting in a large carbon footprint. Applicants are asked to carefully consider the duration of their mobilities, particularly when travelling to further destinations to ensure that all mobilities deliver maximum impact and represent value for money. Any mobility to or from a country located more than 12,000 km from Wales must have a minimum duration of 5 activity days.

Short preparatory visits are possible where risk assessments are required for learner mobilities, or for mobilities involving Disabled participants or participants with additional learning needs. Durations for preparatory visits are a minimum of 2 days and a maximum of 7 days. If you are applying for a preparatory visit, you should provide details of the planned duration and a clear justification for why a preparatory visit is needed in the application form.

Funding is awarded on a unit cost basis for travel and subsistence per participant. Additional funding will be available once a project has started to support the inclusion of Disabled participants, participants with additional learning needs and participants from disadvantaged backgrounds. Further information and eligibility criteria for inclusion costs can be found in the table below.

Physical mobilities are not a requirement of Pathway 2. Where they are not included, applications will need to provide a clear rationale for this and explain how the partnerships will be developed, and outputs created, without a physical mobility.

Grant rates for mobilities can be found below: