Financial support
Certificate
Approved further training measures for the promotion of continuing vocational training
Premium voucher/education premium
over 50% of the training costs (max. € 500)
Prerequisites:
- Gainful employment of at least 15 hours per week or parental or nursing leave
- Taxable annual income of max. 20,000 euros (as joint taxpayers 40,000 euros)
- Not yet received a premium voucher in the current calendar year
- Possession of German citizenship or a work permit for Germany
Education voucher
over 50% of the training costs (max. € 500)
Prerequisites:
- Employees or people returning to work – including the self-employed
- Not yet received an education check in the current calendar year
- Advice from W-tec or another education check advice center
- Taxable annual income between 20,000 and 40,000 euros (between 40,000 and 80,000 euros for joint assessment)
- Residence in North Rhine-Westphalia
For companies with between one and 250 employees and a workplace in NRW, ten education vouchers can be issued to employees each year.
Activation and placement voucher (AVGS)
over 100% of the training costs
Prerequisites:
- Unemployed or at risk of unemployment
- Prior consultation with the employment agency or job center
- Approval notice from the placement specialist
- Measure must begin in the period of validity
Education voucher
over 100% of the training costs
Prerequisites:
- Unemployed or at risk of unemployment
- Prior consultation with the employment agency or job center
- Approval notice from the placement specialist
- Measure must begin in the period of validity
Qualification Opportunities Act
for further training with an employer
Prerequisites:
- Content taught not purely workplace-related
- Completion of an apprenticeship is at least 4 years back
- Last similar measure is at least 4 years back
- Measure in the company or at the institution
- Measure must be approved
- Measure must be at least Take 160 hours
- Exercised activity can be replaced by technologies or
- Employees are otherwise affected by structural change or
- Further training in a bottleneck profession
Assumption of costs:
| <10 Besch. | 10-249 Besch. | <2500 Besch. | >2500 Besch. | |
| Assumption of course costs | Up to 100% | Up to 50% | Up to 25% | Up to 20% |
| Wage subsidy | Up to 75% | Up to 50% | Up to 25% | Up to 25% |
