Apply for funding from the ESF Plus program "Give advice - Yes to training!"

Source: BUS Rheinland-Pfalz

The Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs (BMAS) supports organizations that advise important caregivers of young immigrants or young descendants of immigrants. To this end, the BMAS has launched the new pilot program "Rat geben - Ja zur Ausbildung!" ("Give advice - Yes to training!").

The pilot program seeks new ways of approaching young immigrants and young descendants of immigrants. It is therefore not aimed at the young people themselves, but at their reference persons. This can be

Parents,
relatives,
social workers and
sports instructors and teachers from clubs

be. These reference persons are trained in their role as advisors.

The aim is to overcome barriers for young people in accessing vocational training and to impart knowledge about the transition from school to work.

Two fields of action are promoted:

Field of action 1: Strengthening reference persons
Field of action 2: Networking providers

Strengthening reference persons

Through the work of 16 regional and local sponsors, caregivers are to receive information, advice and training as advisors. This enables them to motivate and support young people in the transition from school to vocational training. Possible measures include

Implementation of training courses,
Visits to events,
offers of personal advice and networking with regional players on the labor market.

Ideally, 1 project should be carried out in all 16 federal states as a model.

Networking providers

A further, nationally active sponsor should network the 16 funding recipients from the "Strengthening caregivers" approach and support their work. Possible measures include

Organization of network meetings,
Dissemination of information and good practices,
Preparation of program experiences and creation of supporting work materials,
Creation of digital content for social media,
regular documentation of the program and final documentation.

Funding area

Funding is to be provided particularly in regions with a difficult socio-economic environment. A difficult socio-economic environment is defined as a region with

above-average youth unemployment,
an above-average proportion of recipients of transfer payments,
an above-average at-risk-of-poverty rate,
other meaningful indicators.

Information on the level of education, occupation, income and housing conditions can also be decisive.

Type and scope

As a rule, you will receive funding for a project in the "Strengthening caregivers" field of action for 3 years. In the "Networking providers" field of action, the duration is 3.5 years,

You receive the funding as partial financing in the form of a non-repayable grant. The amount of funding is up to 90 percent of the total expenditure.

The total expenditure in the field of action "Strengthening caregivers" should not exceed 830,000 euros per application. The total expenditure in the "Networking providers" field of action should not exceed the upper limit of EUR 3,100,000.

Applications are approved by Deutsche Rentenversicherung Knappschaft-Bahn-See (DRV KBS). The DRV KBS has the following tasks

informing the applicants and providing advice on funding,
examine applications,
approve and pay out grants and

review projects.

The funding procedure of the ESF Plus program "Rat geben - Ja zur Ausbildung!" 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:

You were able to submit expressions of interest via the Z-EU-S funding portal online service. The expression of interest procedure ended on September 21, 2022.
The evaluation is carried out by the Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs (BMAS) using the evaluation criteria.

To step 2:

If your project is positively assessed in Step 1, you will be asked to submit a formal, written funding application via the ZEU-S funding portal. Approval will be granted by the DRV KBS.

The scheduled program start is May 2023.

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

You can submit an application

as a legal entity under private or public law,
as a partnership with legal capacity, for example as
- local authority (city, district, municipality)
- A non-profit welfare organization and other non-profit organizations
- non-profit association and federation (e.g. as a migrant organization),
- social service provider (provider of employment promotion, training and further education as well as education and employment providers)

Please note the following requirements:

Language skills from the (post)migrant community and digital skills of the project staff are desirable and advantageous.
The projects must be implemented jointly and cooperatively with relevant local labor market policy partners.
You can apply for the grant to be passed on to third parties (sub-projects). You can involve up to 3 on-lending recipients in the project.
Natural persons cannot be grant recipients.

Special funding requirements:

Double funding of the project is excluded (EU, federal government, federal states). Existing programs and structures must be coordinated and duplicate structures avoided.
Your overall funding, and in particular the co-financing of the project by the project sponsor of at least 10 percent, must be secured.
If you do not provide your own contribution, this can lead to the revocation of the grant notification and the reclaiming of the grant.
Funding for measures that are part of your compulsory duties is excluded.
Projects that have already begun cannot be funded retroactively.
You are obliged to use the funding sparingly, economically and for the intended purpose.

You must provide evidence of your professional and administrative ability to carry out the measure

For the expression of interest:

Completed project concept (project concept)
Outline of the exchange that has already taken place with labor market policy-relevant actors in the selected program area (letters of intent and cooperation agreements)
All required information in the Z-EU-S funding portal

The expression of interest procedure ended on September 21, 2022, followed by the phases of evaluation of the submitted expressions of interest and the formal application procedure.

You can replace the written form with the electronic form of the qualified electronic signature (qeS) or electronic proof of identity (eID) approved in the Z-EU-S funding portal.

Please give preference to the electronic form.

Only in exceptional cases can you apply to submit the signature by post.

In such exceptional cases, you must download the electronically recorded forms submitted in Z-EU-S after electronic submission. You must then sign the forms by hand and submit them by post. Please note the applicable deadlines.

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