Federal civil servants and judges may be granted up to 10 days of special leave per year under the Special Leave Ordinance to attend educational events in the field of politics and society. This applies primarily to educational events conducted by government agencies.
If you, as a non-governmental organisation, offer seminars for this target group, you can have them recognised as "eligible" by the Federal Agency for Civic Education (BpB). Participants can then be exempted from service for your educational offering. This can have a positive effect on the number of participants.
If your educational event focuses on one of the following topics, it may be recognized by the BpB:

• Promoting an understanding of the democratic social and political order in theory and practice
• imparting knowledge about the central economic, social, ecological, technical and cultural issues of the present and the future
• Promoting an awareness of history that critically supports the development of a national identity
• Promotion of a critical examination of National Socialism
• Contemporary historical events
• Intellectual and political confrontation with anti-democratic efforts; especially with regard to right-wing and left-wing extremism
• Reduction of prejudices against minorities and social fringe groups
• Imparting knowledge about the development of international relations
• Raising awareness of the problems of peacekeeping
• Strengthening and further development of a European consciousness
• Promotion of a critical examination of the former GDR
• Rhetoric and communication seminars will be recognised provided that the practical exercises are based on political topics. The list of topics must be attached to the application. The recognition of eligibility for funding refers exclusively to the educational event itself, not to you as an educational institution in general.