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Apply for funding for inter-company training courses in the skilled trades

In order to ensure high-quality and future-oriented training in the skilled trades, the state of Bremen supports companies with subsidies for inter-company training courses.

Basic information
Craft enterprises do not always have the economic and technical prerequisites for future-oriented and qualified training in accordance with the training regulations. As vocational qualification is also of particular importance under the Crafts Code, the state of Bremen provides grants in the form of non-repayable subsidies towards the costs of inter-company training courses (übA).
The aim of this funding is to ensure a uniformly high quality of training, to relieve the training companies of the costs of inter-company training and to create an incentive to offer training places.
The subsidies are used to reduce the training costs borne by the training companies.
Requirements
- The Bremen Chamber of Crafts is authorized to submit applications.
  Organizers of the training courses can be chambers of skilled crafts as well as trade associations of the skilled crafts, district skilled crafts associations, skilled crafts guilds or vocational training institutions recognized by the chambers of skilled crafts.
- The training courses must be based on the instruction and average cost plans of the Heinz Piest Institute for Craft Technology at Leibniz Universität Hannover (HPI).
- The training facility of the company providing the training must be located in the federal state of Bremen, the trainees must be entered in the register of vocational training relationships of the Bremen Chamber of Skilled Crafts (Apprenticeship Register of Skilled Crafts) and the company providing the training must be entered in the Register of Skilled Crafts.
- The training costs of trainees for whom the costs of inter-company training are covered by a social security fund (Soka) are not eligible for funding.
Procedure
- The Chamber of Skilled Crafts submits an application for funding for the entire calendar year by November 1 of the previous year.
- The application can be submitted by e-mail.
- The senatorial authority examines the application on the basis of the funding guidelines in accordance with the available budget funds.
- The funds are disbursed at the end of each quarter on the basis of the grant notification.
  Partial payments (payments on account) are made for the courses that are to be completed by the end of the respective quarter.
- If the Bremen Chamber of Crafts does not carry out the training courses itself, it forwards the grants to the organizers for a specific purpose by means of a forwarding agreement. The organizers reduce the invoices to the training companies accordingly.
- The Chamber of Skilled Crafts must check whether the grants have been used by the organizers for the intended purpose.
  
  The Chamber of Skilled Crafts must then submit an overall statement of use by April 15 of the following year at the latest.
More information
Grants are awarded on a discretionary basis in accordance with available budget funds. There is no legal entitlement to a grant.
Necessary Documents
- Application for funding for inter-company training in the skilled trades
Forms
Fees / Costs

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Deadlines & processing time

What deadlines must be paid attention to?
Application deadline: 01.11. of the previous year
Deadline for proof of use: 15.04. of the following year
5 years Retention period for documents after submission of the overall where-used list
How long does it take to process
2 months (In the event of a budget-free period, processing may be postponed accordingly).
Legal Bases
- §§ 23, 44 Haushaltsordnung der Freien Hansestadt Bremen (Landeshaushaltsordnung - LHO)
- Richtlinie der Senatorin für Kinder und Bildung zur Förderung der überbetrieblichen Ausbildung im Handwerk

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Updated on 26.08.2026

Apply for funding for inter-company training courses in the skilled trades

Basic information

Requirements

Procedure

More information

Necessary Documents

Forms

Fees / Costs

Deadlines & processing time

What deadlines must be paid attention to?

How long does it take to process

Legal Bases