Taith Core Programme Guide 2023

Eligible Receiving organisation criteria

Any public or private organisation active in the labour market or in the fields of education, training, youth/adult education/vocational education & training/higher education.

For example, such an organisation can be:

• a public or private, a small, medium, or large enterprise (including social enterprises);
• a public body at local, regional, or national level;
• a social partner or other representative of working life, including chambers of commerce, craft/professional associations, and trade unions;
• a research institute;
• a foundation;
• a school/institute/educational centre (at any level, from primary school to upper secondary education, and including vocational education);
• a not-for-profit organisation, association, non-governmental organisation (NGO);
• a body providing career guidance, professional counselling, and information services (schools, youth and HE only).

Eligible Applying organisation criteria

• Any school funded or maintained by a local authority and registered in, and operating from, Wales, providing general or vocational education to children and young people aged 4 – 19 years and inspected by ESTYN;
• Any of the 22 Welsh local authorities; or
• A Consortium which comprises a single lead organisation applying on behalf of several schools. The consortium must include at least one named school, funded and maintained by a local authority and registered in, and operating from, Wales, and may also include local or regional authorities, school coordinating bodies or a social enterprise or other organisations with a role in the field of school education. All members of the consortium must be regulated or registered in, and operating from, Wales, and any schools in the consortium must be funded or maintained by a local authority and registered in, and operating from, Wales. Consortium partners must be agreed and named at the point of application.

Eligible Receiving organisation criteria

School(s) providing general education at pre-primary, primary or secondary level, recognised and regulated by competent authorities of the country within which the school is registered;

Eligible Sending organisation (inward mobilities) criteria

Schools and consortia registered and operating outside the UK and the British Overseas Territories can send eligible participants to be hosted in Wales.

Sending organisations can be:

• School(s) providing general or vocational education to children and young people aged 4 – 19 years, recognised by competent authorities of the country within which the school is registered; or
• Local, regional or national public authorities, coordination bodies and other organisations with a role in the field of school education; or
• A consortium of organisations/providers, as defined above, in the field of school education. All members of such a consortium must be registered and operating outside the UK and the British Overseas Territories.

Eligible applying organisation criteria 

Organisations and groups regulated or registered in, and operating from, Wales working in the field of youth including:

• Public bodies at local, regional or national level;
• Non-governmental organisations, social enterprises and not-for-profit organisations, including but not limited to registered charities and charitable incorporated associations, community interest companies, companies limited by guarantee;
• A Consortium of organisations/providers which comprises a single lead organisation applying on behalf of two or more other youth organisations. All members of such a consortium must be regulated or registered in, and operating from, Wales. Consortium partners must be agreed and named at the point of application.

Organisations working in the field of youth, which are not regulated or registered in Wales but operate on a UK wide basis, with demonstrable, recent, experience of delivering activity in Wales, may also be eligible to apply provided they meet the following criteria:

Satisfactory evidence is submitted to demonstrate:  

• how the proposed programme activity will benefit Wales and
• that the intended participants are either (i) for outward mobility, participants who are undertaking learning activity in Wales, or (ii) for inward mobility, the participants will be undertaking learning activity in Wales.

Eligible receiving organisation criteria 

Any public or private organisation active in the labour market or in the fields of education, training and youth, recognised or regulated by competent authorities of the country within which the organisation provider is operating and incorporated and/or domiciled. 

Eligible Sending organisation (inward mobilities) criteria

Youth organisations registered and operating outside the UK and the British Overseas Territories can send eligible participants to be hosted in Wales. 

Sending organisations can be organisations, registered with the relevant regulatory body/bodies, working in the field of youth including: 

• Public bodies at local, regional or national level; and
• Non-governmental organisations, social enterprises and not-for-profit organisations.

Eligible Applying organisation criteria 

Any organisation regulated or registered in, and operating from, Wales providing formal and non-formal adult education, including: 

• Local and regional public authorities, coordination bodies and other organisations registered and operating from Wales with a role in the field of adult education. 
• Non-governmental organisations, social enterprises and not-for-profit organisations, including but not limited to registered charities and charitable incorporated associations, community interest companies, companies limited by guarantee;
• Consortium of organisations/providers, which comprises a single lead organisation applying on behalf of two or more adult education providers, in the field of adult education. All members of the consortium must be regulated or registered in, and operating from, Wales. Consortium partners must be agreed and named at the point of application.

Organisations working in the field of Adult Education, which are not regulated or registered in Wales but operate on a UK wide basis, with demonstrable, recent, experience of delivering activity in Wales, may also be eligible to apply provided they meet the following criteria:

Satisfactory evidence is submitted to demonstrate:  

• how the proposed programme activity will benefit Wales and
• that the intended participants are either (i) for outward mobility, participants who are undertaking learning activity in Wales, or (ii) for inward mobility, the participants will be undertaking learning activity in Wales.

Eligible Receiving organisation criteria 

Any public or private organisation delivering adult education recognised and regulated by competent authorities of the country within which the provider is operating and incorporated and/or domiciled;

Eligible Sending organisation (inward mobilities) criteria

Adult education providers regulated or registered and operating outside the UK and the British Overseas Territories can send eligible participants to be hosted in Wales. 

Sending organisations can be: 

• Any public, or private organisation, registered with the relevant regulatory body/bodies, delivering adult education; or 
• National or regional co-ordinating bodies overseeing the provision of adult education.

Eligible Applying organisation criteria

• Any public or private organisation regulated or registered in, and operating from, Wales active in the field of further education, and which offers a range of courses at different levels within the Credit and Qualifications Framework for Wales, leading to accredited qualifications;
• National, regional or local co-ordinating bodies operating within Wales and overseeing the provision of further education; 
• Consortium of organisations/providers, which comprises a single lead organisation applying on behalf of two or more further education providers, in the field of further education. All members of the consortium must be regulated or registered in, and operating from, Wales. Consortium partners must be agreed and named at the point of application.

Eligible Receiving organisation criteria

Any public or private organisation delivering further education, recognised and regulated by competent authorities of the country within which the provider is operating and incorporated and/or domiciled;

Eligible Sending organisation (inward mobilities) criteria

Further Education and Vocational Education & Training providers registered and operating outside the UK and the British Overseas Territories can send eligible participants to be hosted in Wales. 

Sending organisations can be: 

• Any public, or private organisation, registered with the relevant regulatory body/bodies, delivering vocational education and training; or 
• National or regional co-ordinating bodies overseeing the provision of education or training in the field of vocational education and training.

Eligible Applying organisation criteria 

Any public or private organisation regulated or registered in, and operating from, Wales active in the field of vocational education & training, which offer a range of courses, leading to accredited qualifications, including:

• National co-ordinating bodies operating within Wales and overseeing the provision of education or training in the field of vocational education and training;
• Companies and other public or private organisations hosting, training or otherwise working with learners and apprentices in vocational education and training; 
• Consortium of organisations, which comprises a single lead organisation applying on behalf of a number of vocational education and training providers, in the field of vocational education & training. All members of the consortium must be regulated or registered in, and operating from, Wales. Consortium partners must be agreed and named at the point of application.

Organisations working in the field of Vocational Education and Training, which offer a range of courses, leading to accredited qualifications, which are not regulated or registered in Wales but operate on a UK wide basis, with demonstrable, recent, experience of delivering activity in Wales, may also be eligible to apply provided they meet the following criteria:

Satisfactory evidence is submitted to demonstrate:  

• how the proposed programme activity will benefit Wales; and
• that the intended participants are either (i) for outward mobility, participants who are undertaking learning activity in Wales, or (ii) for inward mobility, the participants will be undertaking learning activity in Wales.

Eligible Receiving organisation criteria 

Any public or private organisation active in the field of vocational education and training recognised and regulated by competent authorities of the country within which the provider is operating and incorporated and/or domiciled; 

Eligible Sending organisation (inward mobilities) criteria

Further Education and Vocational Education & Training providers registered and operating outside the UK and the British Overseas Territories can send eligible participants to be hosted in Wales. 

Sending organisations can be: 

• Any public, or private organisation, registered with the relevant regulatory body/bodies, delivering vocational education and training; or 
• National or regional co-ordinating bodies overseeing the provision of education or training in the field of vocational education and training.

Eligible Applying organisation criteria 

• Any Welsh higher education institution (HEI), regulated or funded by the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales (HEFCW);
• A higher education provider, whose courses have been specifically designated for the purposes of being eligible for student support, and operates in Wales.

Eligible Receiving organisation criteria 

HE provider recognised or regulated by the relevant national competent authorities or regulatory body/bodies of the country within which the HE provider is operating and incorporated and/or domiciled (including overseas campuses operated by a Welsh HEI);

Eligible Sending organisation (inward mobilities) criteria

Higher Education providers registered with the relevant regulatory body/bodies and operating outside the UK and the British Overseas Territories, can send eligible participants to be hosted in Wales.

Eligible participants are expected to be hosted at the Welsh applying organisation. The applying organisation may arrange for the participant to be hosted by a third party, in exceptional circumstances.