THE ERASMUS + PROGRAMME AS A CHANNEL FOR THE EU AGENDA The experience of the Project Managers in PRISM Impresa Sociale s.r.l. in dialoguing with the EU Institutions.

The study planned to carry out in this research concerns the relationship between the EU institutions and the Project Managers that operate in the framework of the Erasmus + programme. The idea of this research has been inspired by the experiences lived during my internship experience in “PRISM Impresa Sociale s.r.l.”, a social enterprise that works in the field of international cooperation and social and cultural development of local communities. This research draws from a broad literature in the fields of Europeanization, multilevel governance and project cycle management as elements that constitute a system of inputs that can be interpreted in a double dimension of both top-down and bottom-up; moreover, the literature review brings to the conceptual framework elements concerning the neofunctionalist conception of policy spillover, that is consequently applied to the research question as key feature in describing both the variables and the hypotheses underlying the research analysis. The methodology applied consists mainly of qualitative instruments with a few quantitative features set to enable a more stable interpretation of the responses collected via questionnaire using the EUSurvey platform. The main purpose of this research is to highlight the ways and modes in which the Erasmus + Programme is affected by both the intervention of the European Commission and the Project Managers at different levels and phases of its policy process.