Supporting Education Reforms & Skills (SER) is the first European Union’s regional programme focusing on education in the Eastern Partnership region. The EUR 2.5 million, three-year (2024–26) programme aims to enhance the efficiency, quality, equity, equality and relevance of education systems, and to make positive, long-lasting and sustainable changes in education in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine. The programme is based on three pillars:
1. Rapid education diagnosis– the sector-wide analysis is based on three thematic dimensions: inequalities, financing and governance.
2. Capacity development for policy implementation – based on the rapid education diagnosis methodology, this pillar is designed to enhance capabilities for the effective implementation of sector strategies and targeted to address the challenges identified in the countries.
3. Training and peer learning at the regional level – activities under this pillar are addressing common issues across the countries and complementing country-specific expertise support.

The Overall Objective of the programme is to contribute to improved equity, quality and relevance of education in the partner countries.
The Specific Objectives of this programme are to:
1. Improve governance of the education systems (from pre-primary until tertiary and also includes the VET system and adult learning) in the Eastern Partnership countries .
2. Strengthen capacities in evidence-based planning, management and performance monitoring in the education sector.

The Outputs to be delivered by this action, contributing to the corresponding Specific Objectives are the following:
Output 1: Diagnoses of the national education sectors completed (maximum 5) (First Pillar).
Output 2: Strengthened capacities of the national administrations/institutions in governance, financing and planning of education (Second Pillar and Third Pillar).
Output 3: Increased training and peer-learning opportunities (Third Pillar).