Company training vouchers
- Name of the instrument - Local language
- Voucher formativi aziendali
- Name of the instrument - English translation
- Company training vouchers
- Scheme ID
- 392
- Country
- Italy
- Reporting year
- 2020
- Type of instrument
- Grant for companies
- Sub-type of instrument
- Support for direct costs
- Type of entry
- Example for a group of instruments
- Short description
Companies in Lombardy Region can apply for co-funding for training costs. Vouchers are co-founded by ESF (50%), State (35%) and Region (15%). The eligible training depends on the specific call. Companies have to submit an application for a company training voucher for each individual course they intend to enrol their employees. Employees can benefit from one or more training courses, up to an overall value of EUR 2 000 on an annual basis. The maximum cost reimbursable to the company for the use of the courses differsaccording to the level of skills to be acquired.
- Level of operation
- Regional
- Name of a part of the country
- Not applicable
- Name of the region (for regional instruments)
- Lombardy
- Name of the sector (for sectoral instruments)
- Not applicable
- Relevance
- Key instrument
- Legal basis
- Law 236 of 1993, article 9
- Objective(s) and target(s)
- "The Ministry of Labour and Social Security, the Regions and Autonomous Provinces can contribute to funding of: […] interventions for continuous training to workers employed in companies beneficiaries of the extraordinary integration intervention salary; retraining or updating professional for employees of companies that contribute in not less than 20% of the cost of the activities, […]" (Law 236/93, Article 9, Clause 3)
- Year of implementation
- 1993
- Operation/management
- ESF Managing Authority and Lombardy Region
- Eligible group(s)
- Enterprise, cooperatives, self-employed persons working in Lombardy region while the target groups are workers with an open-ended or fixed-term employment contract; members-workers of cooperatives; owners and members of micro, small, medium and large enterprises; self-employed workers and freelancers. All of them must work in Lombardy. Apprentices, workers with intermittent employment contracts, trainees are excluded.
- Group(s) with preferential treatment
- no
- Education and training eligible
- Depending on the Call. In one example it is possible to finance only the tuition of training courses selected within the regional Catalogue and made with reference to profiles and skills provided in the Regional Framework of Professional Standards of Lombardy (QRSP).
- Source of financing and collection mechanism
- Vouchers are co-founded by FSE (50%), State (35%) and Region (15%)
- Financing formula and allocation mechanisms
- Companies have to submit an application for a company training voucher for each individual course they intend to enrol their employees. The voucher requested must include the details of all the recipients enrolled in the course. The application for funding must be submitted exclusively online. Within and no later than 30 consecutive calendar days from the date of the grant award, the company must start attending the requested course. The contribution is paid to those admitted following the course and limited to workers who have completed at least 75% of the planned duration of the course, as reimbursement of the costs incurred by the company. The payment of the grant will be made within 60 calendar days from the date of the request, after verification of the documentation submitted. The documentation attached to the request for payment will be checked by a structure that is independent of those managing the Call in order to guarantee the separation of functions within the bodies involved in the management and control of Community programmes.
- Eligible costs
- Training fees
- Volumes of funding
- Not available
- Beneficiaries/take up
- Not available
- Organisation responsible for monitoring/evaluation
- ANPAL (National Agency for Active Labour Policies) and Lombardy Region
- Monitoring/evaluation reports available
- Not available
- Most relevant webpage - in English
- https://www.fse.regione.lombardia.it/wps/portal/PROUE/FSE/english
- Most relevant webpage - local language
- https://www.fse.regione.lombardia.it/wps/portal/PROUE/FSE/il-programma
- Recent changes
No recent changes
Recent changes in response to COVID-19
No
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- Short description
- Level of operation
- Name of a part of the country
- Name of the region (for regional instruments)
- Name of the sector (for sectoral instruments)
- Relevance
- Legal basis
- Objective(s) and target(s)
- Year of implementation
- Operation/management
- Eligible group(s)
- Group(s) with preferential treatment
- Education and training eligible
- Source of financing and collection mechanism
- Financing formula and allocation mechanisms
- Eligible costs
- Volumes of funding
- Beneficiaries/take up
- Organisation responsible for monitoring/evaluation
- Monitoring/evaluation reports available
- Most relevant webpage - in English
- Most relevant webpage - local language
- Recent changes