Factsheet for measure
AT-2022-1/2878
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Updated
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Digi-Cheque for upskilling apprentices
Digi-Scheck für Lehrlinge
Background information
In order to actively support apprentices and companies providing apprenticeship trainings with the challenges caused by the COVID-19 crisis, financial support for supplementary training measures is provided in 2021 and 2022. Apprentices can choose from over 10,000 courses which have been approved and are eligible for funding, even if they are held not in person, but via digital tools (in case of COVID-19 related restrictions).
Content of measure
Funding is provided for participation in courses whose content includes that of the occupational profile in which the apprenticeship is taken or which includes occupational competences that cut across occupational profiles (e.g. in the areas of digitalisation, resource management or climate protection). €5 million have been earmarked for this measure.
All apprentices who are in an apprenticeship relationship are eligible for the funding. The course needs to have started no earlier than 1 January 2021 and needs to be finished by 31 December 2024 (originally, until the end of 2022, this was later prolonged) in order to be eligible for funding.
Even multiple courses per person are funded (up to 100%), with an upper limit of €500 per course and up to 3 courses per apprentice per calendar year. Costs above the funding limit of €500 are to be borne by the apprentice himself or herself.
In the federal state and city of Vienna, the Vienna Employment Promotion Fund (WAFF) (run by the City of Vienna) provides a top-up of €500 per course, i.e. increasing the upper limit of the funded course costs to €1,000.
Updates
The following updates to this measure have been made after it came into effect.
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26 January 2023
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After being initially scheduled to end by 31 December 2022, the measure has officially been prolonged throughout the years 2023 and 2024.
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Use of measure
No numbers available as of now.
Target groups
Actors and funding
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Actors
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Funding
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Employers' organisations
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Employers organisation
Regional funds
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Social partners
Social partners' role in
designing the measure
and form of involvement:
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Trade unions
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Employers' organisations
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Role
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No involvement as case not in social partner domain
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Agreed (outcome) incl. social partner initiative
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Form
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Not applicable
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Direct consultation outside a formal body
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Social partners' role in the
implementation, monitoring and assessment phase:
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Only employers' organisations
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Main level of involvement: N/A
Involvement
This is a social partner initiative targeted towards upskilling apprentices.
Views and reactions
No reactions from the labour side are available. As the employer side has initiated the programme and runs it, they are in favour of it.
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