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Apply for funding from the ESF Plus program "Integration through Qualification (IQ)"

Service Description

The Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs (BMAS) supports organizations that offer measures to integrate adults of foreign origin into the labor market. The federal ESF Plus funding program "IQ (Integration through Qualification)" exists for this purpose.

The "IQ" program supports projects in 3 fields of action:

  • Field of action 1: Recognition and qualification advice, advice on fair integration (FI)
  • Field of action 2: Regional integration networks
  • Field of action 3: Supra-regional projects and support structure

Field of action 1: Recognition and qualification advice, advice on fair integration

Recognition and qualification advice helps people with a migration background to have academic and professional qualifications acquired abroad recognized. If this is not possible through formal channels, it is investigated whether an alternative path to employment or self-employment with appropriate qualifications is possible. In addition to formal qualifications, the advice should also take into account professional experience gained at home or abroad.

Fair Integration (FI) provides advice on labor and social law issues for people of foreign origin from countries outside the European Union (EU). Questions should relate directly to employment. This means that questions about wages, working hours, vacation, dismissal, health insurance and other issues can be clarified.

Field of action 2: Regional integration networks

An integration network refers to a regional project network in a region. These are contact points for adult qualified workers of foreign origin who reside or regularly stay in the respective region. The integration network offers adaptation courses, adaptation qualifications, bridging measures, coaching and support until the employee takes up employment that corresponds to their level of education. After taking up employment, the network offers mentoring programmes for career and industry entry as well as low-threshold procedures for making non-formal and informal skills visible.

Field of action 3: Supra-regional projects and support structure

In occupational fields in which a group of people of foreign origin cannot be reached locally and there is a need on the labor market, virtual supra-regional projects for qualification measures are offered.

Applications are approved by the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF).

Process flow

The funding procedure is a two-stage process. In the 1st step, you submit an expression of interest. In the 2nd step, the selected project sponsors are invited to submit an application.

Step 1:

  • Expressions of interest are submitted electronically via the Z-EU-S funding portal online service. Please note the deadlines announced separately.
  • External experts evaluate the submitted expressions of interest. The selection is based on defined selection criteria and weightings, including quality of the project concept, quality of project implementation, aspects of suitability and financing as well as potential for continuation.

Step 2:

  • If your project is positively assessed, you must submit a formal, written funding application to the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) via the Z-EU-S funding portal.

If the project is approved, the usual regulations for grants apply, supplemented by special regulations for federal funding from the European Social Fund 2021-2027.

Requirements

Applications can be submitted by

  • legal entities under private and public law
  • partnerships with legal capacity with a permanent establishment or branch office in Germany
  • public institutions, companies, municipalities, educational institutions, research institutions or associations

The following requirements must be met:

  • The measures in all fields of action must be described in project profiles
    • Description of the specific project objective and the target group to be reached
  • Access to the target group of adults of foreign origin

The following are excluded from funding

  • pure research projects and training projects in the sense of initial vocational training
  • public administration
  • natural persons

Which documents are required?

For the expression of interest and application:

  • All required documents specified in the Z-EU-S funding portal

For the application:

  • A declaration on the prohibition of improvisation; if necessary, relevant evidence must be attached (to be prepared by the project sponsor and sub-project partner, scope of application BNBest-P-ESF-Bund)
  • Proof of authorization to represent (e.g. by power of attorney, articles of association, extract from the register, etc.)
  • Declaration of facts relevant to the subsidy
  • Bank confirmation (to be completed by the bank)
  • Confirmation of own funds, third-party funds
  • Confirmation of creditworthiness (for the scope of application of BNBest-P-ESF; exception: Federal Employment Agency and Jobcenter)
  • If relevant: the applicable collective agreement including any existing pay scale
  • Declaration of acknowledgement of the information sheet on respect for the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (CFR) in connection with the implementation of the project applied for and declaration on the disclosure of information to participants in the project
  • if relevant: Proof of entitlement to deduct input tax
  • if relevant: Proof of request for written confirmation from the respective country that the project does not serve to fulfil the legal entitlement, but enables separate advice in addition to existing legally standardized advice from the country
  • Job profiles for the project positions applied for
  • Proof of qualifications and CVs of the project staff already appointed
  • Declaration of consent for the transmission of electronic documents
  • Form for necessary changes in the application procedure (see form in Z-EU-S)
  • if relevant: Project profile per sub-project

What are the fees?

Emission: free of charge
There are no costs.

What deadlines do I have to pay attention to?

It was possible to submit an application in Z-EU-S until November 25, 2022, provided you had previously submitted an expression of interest.

Processing duration

Depending on the scope of the application, approval can take up to 3 months (after the complete application documents have been submitted).

Legal basis

Applications / forms

  • You can lodge an appeal against decisions made as part of the approval process (funding decision, final decision) via the ZEU-S funding portal.
  • A direct appeal procedure is also permitted against decisions made as part of the expression of interest procedure - provided these were issued by a supreme federal authority.

Appeal

Forms available: No

Written form required: Yes

Informal application possible: No

Personal appearance necessary: No

Further Information

Author

Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF), Division 83D - Integration through Qualification


Forwarding service: Deep link to the original portal

The text was automatically translated based on the German content.

Technically approved by

Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs (BMAS)

Professionally released on

28.11.2022

Source: Zuständigkeitsfinder Thüringen (Linie6PLus)

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