Published: 06.12.2022.
Updated: 19.07.2023.

ESF project No 7.1.1.0/15/I/001 "Support for Education of the Unemployed"

REACT-EU grant for reducing effects of crisis caused by Covid-19 pandemic

The State Employment Agency (SEA) organises training (lifelong learning) for people at risk of unemployment using the voucher method

Objective of the measure

The aim of the training is to promote continuous development of knowledge and skills of people at risk of unemployment, increasing their competitiveness on the labour market.

Target groups of the measure

  • employed or self-employed person aged 50 or over
  • employed or self-employed person with insufficient education or skills for the labour market
  • employed or self-employed person with a disability or a foreseeable disability

Basic conditions

The social and professional basic skills (programmes) in which, according to the labour market demand and the forecasts of the development of the economic sectors, training of persons at risk of unemployment is necessary, shall be determined by a commission established by the Minister of Welfare. The training includes involvement of people at risk of unemployment:

  • Non-formal education programmes (official language, English, computer and other education programmes)
  • Driver training programmes for vehicles and tractors

A person may have no more than one application registered for an educational programme.

A person shall be enrolled in an educational programme if he/she has not previously completed non-formal education, vehicle and tractor driver training, a study module or a course of study at a higher education institution or has completed it 12 months or earlier before being enrolled in an educational programme for the first time.

A person may be involved in non-formal education, vehicle and tractor driver programmes for a total of no more than six times in a two-year period.

A person may be re-engaged in a driver education programme no earlier than two years after his/her previous participation in a driver education programme if he/she has obtained a licence to drive a vehicle or to drive a tractor.

The person is not re-enrolled in the same education programme, unless the previously started education programme has been interrupted.

A person may be re-enrolled once a year in a non-formal education programme for learning the official language at the same level if he/she has not passed the official language proficiency test examination for that level at the National Centre for Education.

If a person has already obtained an official language certificate at a certain level, he/she is enrolled in a non-formal education programme for the next level of the official language programme.

Upon completion of the training and passing the final examination, the person shall receive:

  • as part of official language training, a document certifying the knowledge and providing an opportunity to take an official language proficiency test at the National Centre for Education;
  • as part of English, computer and other programmes, proof of knowledge and the opportunity to take the Latvian Association for Information and Communication Technology examination for the ECDL certificate, if this is provided for in the education programme;
  • as part of driver training, the training card and the opportunity to take a qualification test at the State Joint Stock Company "Road Traffic Safety Directorate";
  • as a part of tractor driver training, a training registration card and the opportunity to take a qualification test at the State Technical Supervision Agency.

How to apply?

You can apply for the training electronically by filling in the application form on the Latvian version of the SEA website.