On their official website (https://eupa.org.mt/about-us/) the EUPA describes itself as:
The European Union Programmes Agency (EUPA), is a legal autonomous Agency established through the legal notice 128 of 2007. The Agency was formerly a unit within the Ministry of Education, Youth and Employment set up on the 4 May 2000. The aim of the EUPA has always been to support Maltese individuals and entities in availing themselves of funding under the various educational programmes provided by the European Commission. Yet the aim of the Agency is deeper than simply a financial contribution or sponsorship through which projects may be realised. During 2007 and 2013 the EUPA was responsible for the management of the decentralised action of former generations of EU programmes for education including the Youth in Action and Lifelong learning programmes.
The Agency acts as a link between the European Commission and project promoters both at national as well as the local level and promotes as well as manages EU projects of an educational nature, content or objective. The EUPA engages itself in initiatives that are consonant with the educational policies and strategies of the Ministry responsible for education.
For the current programming period (2021- 2027) the European Commission developed the old EU programme for Education, Training, Youth and Sport under the name of Erasmus+. Erasmus+ is the EU Programme in the fields of education, training, youth and sport.
Education, training, youth and sport are key areas that support citizens in their personal and professional development. Programme decentralised actions are implemented at national level by a network of National Agencies. In Malta the National Agency responsible for the management of these actions is the European Union Programmes Agency (EUPA).
From start to finish, the EUPA were there to help guide the MVPA’s endeavours within its Erasmus+ project. They helped with the application project and then, once the project was accepted, they offered guidance on how to put together logistics such as the mobility to Italy in November 2022. Furthermore, as the MVPA team completed more of their tasks and the project drew closer to its end, there were a number of official reporting documents that needed to be completed, and the EUPA were once more available to offer assistance, as well as to conduct their official inspection visits to ensure the quality of the project.
EUPA were previously known as SEM (https://sem.gov.mt/)
