Apply for professional advancement training funding

Source: Serviceportal Rheinland-Pfalz

With the Upgrading Training Assistance Act (Aufstiegs-BAföG), you can receive financial support to qualify for specialist and management positions or for self-employment. Over 700 advanced training qualifications for higher-qualified vocational training can be funded, for example

Master craftsman
Business administrator
Technician
State-recognized educator

You can only choose between upgrading training courses for which you have the prior vocational qualification.

The Aufstiegs-BAföG grant can support you through

Contributions towards the costs of your course
Contributions to your living expenses

You can complete the upgrading training course full-time or part-time. You can also apply for support for several stages of the course. Your further training must be offered by a suitable provider, for example a

a public provider,
a state-recognized provider or
certified provider.

You can receive funding of up to EUR 15,000 for the actual course and examination fees incurred. Half of this is a grant that does not have to be repaid, the other half is a low-interest loan from KfW that you have to repay. If you successfully complete the course, part of the loan can be waived. If you set up your own business, the entire loan can be waived under certain circumstances.

The practical work you do, for example as part of the master craftsman's examination, is also subsidized. You can receive funding for up to half of the necessary and incurred material costs, up to a maximum of EUR 2,000, half as a grant and half as a loan.

With regard to the loan components of the funding, you are entitled to conclude a loan agreement with the Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW) upon approval of the upgrading training grant. Your loan is interest-free and repayment-free for the duration of the training and a subsequent waiting period of 2 years.

You can only apply for contributions towards living expenses if you complete your training full-time. If you are the parent of one or more children, you will receive a higher grant. If you have income or assets in excess of the allowances, this will be taken into account. You must also declare other state benefits, such as unemployment benefit, when you apply. You do not have to pay back the AFBG maintenance contribution.

Single parents receive an additional monthly childcare allowance for each child under the age of 14 in their household for both full-time and part-time measures.

If you are a foreign national, you can also receive the upgrading training grant if, for example, you are a

are a national of the European Union (EU) or the European Economic Area (EEA) or
have a specific residence permit or a permanent residence permit or
have resided in Germany for a total of 3 years and have been legally employed.

You apply for the upgrading training grant at the AFBG office responsible for your permanent place of residence.
You submit the application with all the required documents electronically or in writing. In most federal states, you can also submit the application digitally.
If you complete the application electronically or in writing:
- You select the necessary forms and complete the application on the computer. Enter your name at the end of the application.
- You send your application by e-mail to the responsible AFBG office or
- Print out the application and send it by post with the necessary supporting documents to the AFBG office responsible.
The AFBG enforcement office will check your details and decide whether the legal requirements for funding under the AFBG are met in your case and will send you a notification.
The notification will tell you whether, how and to what extent your training measure will be funded.
In addition to the grants, you are entitled to a loan agreement with the Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW) once the funding has been approved.
Your loan is interest-free and repayment-free for the duration of the training and a subsequent waiting period of 2 years. This means that you do not have to repay the loan in monthly installments until 2 years after the end of the training.

You have the necessary professional qualifications for the qualification you are aiming for.
The training provider must be suitable, for example as:
- public provider,
- state-recognized provider or
- certified provider.
The further training prepares for a further training qualification regulated by public law or equivalent.
Regular participation in the training course.
The full-time training course offers
- at least 400 teaching hours,
- completion within 36 calendar months and
- as a rule, at least 25 lessons per week on four working days.
Part-time training offers
- at least 400 teaching hours,
- completion within 48 calendar months and
- an average of at least 18 teaching hours per month.

completed application
current registration certificate
Proof of your professional qualification, for example in the form of your examination certificate or university degree
for full-time measures: Certificate of your statutory health insurance or insurance contract

and, if applicable:

Copies of invoices for course and examination fees
Proof of cost reimbursements
Proof of income from employment, training allowances or maintenance payments
Details of children
Proof of receipt of financial benefits such as
- BAföG,
- unemployment benefit,
- citizen's allowance,
- rehabilitation benefits,
- support for gifted students or similar.
Passport or passport substitute and proof of residence permit for non-German citizenship
Certificate of exmatriculation in the case of prematurely terminated degree programs
Certificate of the degree of disability

completed application
current registration certificate
Proof of your professional qualification, for example in the form of your examination certificate or university degree
Certificate of your statutory health insurance or insurance contract

and, if applicable

Copies of invoices for course and examination fees
Proof of cost reimbursements
Proof of income from employment, training allowances or maintenance payments
Details of children
Proof of receipt of financial benefits such as
- BAföG,
- unemployment benefit,
- citizen's allowance,
- rehabilitation benefits,
- support for gifted students or similar.
Passport or passport substitute and proof of residence permit for non-German nationals
Certificate of exmatriculation in the case of prematurely terminated courses of study
Certificate of the degree of disability

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