Professional Further Education and Professional Vocational Development Programme Implementation for the Unemployed Using Coupon Method
Recovery Fund Project ‘Upskilling for adults’ No 3.1.2.5.i.0/1/23/I/CFLA/001
The unemployed persons can receive coupons and participate in:
- professional further education programmes allowing to acquire professional qualification. After completing the particular programme the unemployed person is required to take an examination. After passing the examination, the unemployed person receives a professional qualification certificate;
- professional vocational development programmes allowing to improve the professional skills and acquire systematic abilities and knowledge suited to the changing labour market demand. After completing the vocational development programme, the unemployed person receives a professional development certificate.
Participation in continuing vocational training programmes is available to:
- unemployed persons who have no professional qualifications;
- unemployed person whose professional qualifications or professional experience are not needed in the labour market;
- unemployed persons whose professional qualifications do not comply with the requirements laid down for the profession in question, e.g. no professional upgrade document (certificate) required by legislation has been received attesting the right to continue to pursue a previously acquired profession;
- unemployed persons who have lost their professional skills because they have not pursued the acquired profession for at least three years or because of their health condition prevents them from working in the acquired profession;
- unemployed persons may re-enter continuing vocational training programmes if they have obtained a certificate of professional qualifications after completing previous continuing training programme;
- unemployed persons may re-engage in vocational training programmes at the earliest two years after completion of previous vocational training programme and, if the unemployed person has been employed for at least 60 calendar days during that period, aggregating the periods of employment completed by the unemployed person after the completion of previous vocational training programme.
Participation in professional upgrade training programmes is available to:
- unemployed people whose skills are not in demand in the changing labour market or whose skills are insufficient, making it difficult to find a job;
- unemployed people whose skills are insufficient, making it difficult to find a job.
Basic conditions for implementing coupon method for training:
- Fields of training and professions for unemployed person and job seeker training are determined by a commission established by the Ministry of Welfare in accordance with labour market demand and national economy development forecasts.
- Unemployed person may choose an education programme and establishment from the list of Fields of training and professions approved by the Ministry of Welfare.
- Unemployed person may choose a professional further education or professional vocational development programme and education establishment form the list of the professional further education or professional vocational development programmes offered by SEA, or choose the education establishment on thir own;
- Unemployed person receives a coupon for acquiring the chosen education programme.
- Training period is up to 8 months.
- During the training unemployed persons are provided with a monthly grant of 5.00 € for each training day.
- If the person resides more than 15km from the location where the training takes place and they have declared their residence there at least six months before, they may apply for regional mobility aid of up to 100€ to cover costs of commuting and rent.
In case the unemployed person ceases to participate in the training without justifiable reason, he/she is obliged to fully compensate to SEA the training cost and grant received during the training!
Unemployed person and job seeker training is co-financed within the framework of the EU Fund Operational Programme “Growth and Employment” 7.1.1. specific support objective “Improving Unemployed Person Qualification and Abilities in Accordance with Labour Market Demand”.
