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Evening School

Support offer

Evening schools aim at catching up on a school-leaving certificate or at achieving a higher qualification. In order to change or improve your professional situation, you have the opportunity to gain additional or further qualifications after work at an evening school.

The evening school is aimed above all at people who would like to continue their education in addition to their profession. In addition to catching up on a school-leaving certificate, the evening school also offers refresher courses and further education.

Evening schools are mainly offered by the German Volkshochschule.

Who can access this offer?

Everyone

Further information/useful links

All offers of German evening school programs

 

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Training databases

Support offer

In the course of digitisation, the option of further education and/or training through a platform is also possible. The offer and the number of these continuing education databases amount to more than 200 of these databases in Germany. These platforms are operated both by the public sector and by private providers.

The density of offers for further training, retraining and school-leaving qualifications is high. From a course for personal presentation to a higher school leaving certificate to certified further training or retraining, the choice is almost unlimited. However, the costs for many courses are high. Whether and to what extent individual courses are specially promoted or supported depends on the situation of the individual.

State providers (as an example):

  • Bildungsmarkt Sachsen
  • Hamburger Kursportal WISY
  • WIS – Das Weiterbildungs-Informations- System

Who can access this offer?

Everyone

Further information/useful links

https://www.bildungsmarkt-sachsen.de/
https://hamburg.kursportal.info/
https://wis.ihk.de/

Test and comparison of databases
https://www.test.de/Weiterbildung-Datenbanken-Test-Weiterbildungsdatenbanken-4271798-0/

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Private educational institutions

Support offer

The offer for further education and training is provided by a large number of companies (state-supported and/or privately financed).
The educational offer is extensive and includes both school and vocational qualifications as well as further and continuing education and retraining.

Examples of offerers:

  • VHS – Volkshochschule
  • IBB – Institut für Berufliche Bildung AG

The range of offers provided by companies and schools is large. The program of the individual courses covers various fields such as:

  • Work – Profession (training courses, qualifications, further training by topic),
  • Health (from consciousness creation to continuing education),
  • Language,
  • Culture – Designing,
  • Politics – Society – Environment (training, further education),
  • School degrees,
  • Basic education (literacy, computers, everyday skills, vocational orientation).

All areas are accessible to everyone, but in order to simplify the process they are simplified for the “user” by prior individual counselling.

Who can access this offer?

Everyone

Further information/useful links

VHS: https://www.volkshochschule.de/#kursfinder
IBB: https://www.ibb.com/weiterbildungen-fuer-arbeitssuchende

 

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Bildungsprämie

Support offer

Bildungsprämie is a subsidy for a further training measure that takes place alongside the occupation. Individual continuing education, which is also characterised by a high degree of self-interest, forms the basis for the subsidy.
It supports private continuing education in addition to the profession.
The funding is provided by a combination of state, ESF and European Union.

Who can access this offer?

The prerequisites for the training premium are:

  • are employed for at least 15 hours per week,
  • have a maximum taxable income of 20,000 euros (40,000 euros as jointly assessed persons).

Further information/useful links

https://www.bildungspraemie.info/

 

 

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Further training courses by the Federal Employment Agency

Support offer

The services offered by the Federal Employment Agency are divided into four basic areas for further training with the aim of creating an individual career path.
These areas include:

  • Advisory services and support for personal career development and advancement
  • The promotion of a vocational qualification in order to extend knowledge and skills or to obtain a vocational qualification.
  • The professional change – a retraining, cross or side entry for a new occupational field
  • The return to working life after a break.

Who can access this offer?

Support is given to those who can prove that further training actively contributes to improving the chances of placement.

Further information/useful links

https://www.arbeitsagentur.de/karriere-und-weiterbildung
https://kursnet-finden.arbeitsagentur.de/kurs/