Welsh Education Sector International Learning Exchange Programme Invites Funding Applications

Funding is available for education sector organisations in Wales to enable learners, young people and staff to undertake international exchanges, both short and long term, providing opportunities to share learning, experience different cultures and develop new skills.

Taith is a Welsh Government funded initiative. Taith’s Pathway 1 programme is designed to support the outward and inward mobility of individual participants or groups of participants, is inviting applications for projects commencing from September 2025.

The indicative sector budgets for the Pathway 1 funding call are as follows:

• Schools – £1 million.
• Youth – £650,000.
• Adult Education – £250,000.
• Further Education (FE) and Vocational Education and Training (VET) – £643,000.
• Higher Education (HE) – £1.2 million.

New for 2025, two levels of funding are available:

• Small grants of up to £60,000.
• Large grants of over £60,000.

Inclusivity and accessibility are a strategic focus for Taith and the programme is looking to fund as many and as wide a range of organisations as possible. As such, no organisation can apply for more than 40% of the indicative sector budget.

The following criteria apply:

• Organisations applying to Pathway 1 must demonstrate that they will provide opportunities to those unlikely to experience international mobility without Taith funding. For Pathway 1 exchanges to provide the greatest impact, at least 25% of learners or young people participating in a project must be from underrepresented groups.
• Organisations can only submit one application per sector per Pathway funding call. Applicants should ensure that multiple applications to the same Pathway funding call are not submitted by different parties in the same organisation.
• Where organisations work across more than one sector they can submit one application per sector, provided they meet the eligibility criteria for those sectors.
• Staff only mobilities are possible but must have a clear and demonstrable impact on the learners they work with, in particular those from underrepresented groups.