Support programs | Educational leave

Support programs

Make use of the subsidy of Investitionsbank Sachsen-Anhalt via the support program. 

1.) Saxony-Anhalt FURTHER EDUCATION FOR COMPANIES

Operating further education programs, strengthening competitiveness, securing skilled personell for economic success. Saxony-Anhalt FURTHER EDUCATION FOR COMPANIES supports further education for occupations, self-employed persons, freelancers, and entrepreneurs and supports counseling and accompanying services to develop and implement a future-proof and employee-oriented personnel policy.

Who is supported?

• Companies, self-employed persons and institutions in Saxony-Anhalt

What is supported?

Occupational further education

• Further education programs, which serve the development and preservation of operationally relevant, technical-methodic, social and personal skills and / or support motivation and efficiency
• Particularly eligible are further education programs in order to improve qualifications of low qualified persons, to preserve employability of elderly employees as well as people with disabilities
• Implementation of ecological-economic further education offers

Personnel and organizational development

• Consulting and accompanying services to develop and implement a future-proof and employee-oriented personnel policy

In which way is supported?

Occupational training

• Grant up to 60% for companies with up to 10 employees
• Grant up to 50% for companies with up to 249 employees
• Grant up to 40% for companies with 250 or more employees

The grant increases by 10% for companies bound to a collective agreement as defined by the Collective Agreement Act. The grant increases by 20% for:

• elderly employees after attaining the age of 55
• low-skilled workers
• part-time employees (max. 30 hours per week)
• marginal workers without further occupation or self-employment
• people with approved degree of disability
• People with a migration background as defined by § 6 of the migrational background collection regulation (MighEV)
• Single parents and job returnees after a family-related career break (for example parental leave, care of relatives)

The total grant considering the premium must not exceed 80 % of the eligible total expenditure.

Personnel and organizational development

•  Grant up to 80% for companies with 10 to 49 employees
•  Grant up to 60% for companies with 50 to 249 employees 

What remains to be considered?

• For the section personnel and organizational development please use the process consultants of the consultants database of the federal program Enterprise value:human under http://www.unternehmens-wert-mensch.de/ and later additionally the state process consultants pool of the program Saxony-Anhalt FURTHER EDUCATION FOR COMPANIES. Note for process consultants from Saxony-Anhalt, who are not authorized for the consultant pool of the federal program "Enterprise value:human": To build an additional state process consultants pool for the program Saxony-Anhalt FURTHER EDUCATION FOR COMPANIES there will be an authorization procedure for consultants. The admission requirements meet the criteria for the authorization as a process consultant for the counseling program “Enterprise value:human” of the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs. The applications for the authorization as a process consultant in the ESF program Saxony-Anhalt FURTHER EDUCATION FOR COMPANIES can be submitted from 02/01/2016 until 03/13/2016 at the educational institute of Economy Saxony-Anhalt e.V. as a supporting organization of the Enterprise value:human information center Saxony-Anhalt North.
• Applications for the support program require a specific form and must be addressed to Förderservice GmbH Investitionsbank Sachsen-Anhalt, Leipziger Str. 49, 39112 Magdeburg

Contact Person

Any questions? Our experts provide advice at the free hotline 0800 56 007 57

Please follow the link for more information:

WEITERBILDUNG (betrieblich) (ib-sachsen-anhalt.de)

2.) Saxony-Anhalt FURTHER EDUCATION DIRECT

Subsidy for the individual occupational further education and the acquisition of additional qualifications for apprentices and students of vocational schools Increase knowledge, enlarge abilities, develop skills. This program for individual professional qualification and trainings related to school or apprenticeship helps to fulfill occupational dreams.