Nordplus Higher Education offers grants for innovative development projects within the field of higher education.

Apart from joint curriculum planning, projects may focus on issues such as:
* Collaboration with the labour market
* Quality assurance
* The dissemination and use of results achieved by networks and projects
* The development of collaborations with other institutions in the public or private sectors as well as non-governmental organisations (NGOs) within higher education
* The development of new teaching methods

The same project can be granted Nordplus funding for three consecutive years but annual applications must be submitted.