Education Entry Grant

The Study Entrance Grants aims to support the unemployed with short prior education whose labour market prospects significantly can be improved by gaining a qualification on the basic or upper-secondary level. Applicants must have been unemployed or in an ALP measure six months within the last 12 months. The grant is managed by the municipalities that can apply slightly different rules for the criteria an applicant and their envisaged education have to meet. In general, applicants should lack a qualification on the higher secondary level (Swedish gymnasium) and have good chances to increase their employability by pursuing a second chance education. The study programmes eligible for the grant include education on the level of compulsory or upper secondary schools (Komvux) or general courses on those levels in liberal adult education institutions (Folkhögskola). The educational activity has to be performed on a level of at least 50% (according to study credits) for at least three weeks. The benefit can be granted for a maximum of 50 weeks of full-time studies. The maximum amount of funding is EUR 10 625 plus a potential child allowance of EUR 1 931. The minimum amount of funding is EUR 319.