Please be advised that it is possible to obtain funding for postgraduate studies from the National Training Fund.
Detailed information on the submission of applications is posted in the poviat employment offices competent for the employer.
In order to obtain co-financing of the costs of education at postgraduate studies, an employer planning to invest in education must submit an application to the poviat labor office competent for the employer’s seat or place of business. The application may be submitted in paper or electronic form.
Additional information on co-financing postgraduate studies from KFS can also be found on the website: http://psz.praca.gov.pl/-/55453-krajowy-fundusz-szkoleniowy
Any employer within the meaning of the provisions of the Employment Promotion Act (…), i.e. an entity employing employees on the basis of an employment contract, may apply for funds from the National Training Fund (earmarked, for example, for co-financing postgraduate studies).
An entity running a business and not employing employees under an employment contract, cooperating only with a spouse, employing persons on the basis of a specific specific task contract, is not an employer.
The employer may receive KFS funds to finance lifelong learning undertaken by himself and his employees in the amount of:
• 80% of the costs of lifelong learning, but not more than 300% of the average remuneration in a given year per participant (over PLN 12,000),
• 100% of the costs of lifelong learning – in the case of a microenterprise (up to 10 employees) – but not more than 300% of the average remuneration in a given year per participant (over PLN 12,000).
The employer may allocate KFS funds to, inter alia, postgraduate studies in which employees will participate at the employer’s initiative or with his consent.
The employer must submit an application for funding from KFS for lifelong learning to the poviat labor office competent for the employer’s seat or place of business. The funds constitute de minimis aid for the employer.
The Minister of Family, Labor and Social Policy defined the priorities for spending funds from the KFS for 2017 and these are:
1. support for continuing vocational education in the following sectors: industrial processing, transport and storage, as well as health care and social assistance;
2. support for continuing vocational education in deficit occupations identified in a given poviat or voivodship;
3. support for lifelong learning for people who can prove that they have performed work in special conditions or of a special nature for at least 15 years, and who are not entitled to a bridging pension.
Priorities of the Labor Market Council for the expenditure of the KFS reserve in 2017
1. support for lifelong learning of people who do not have full qualifications at level 4 of the Polish Qualifications Framework (do not have a high school diploma);
2. support for lifelong learning for people over 45;
3. support for lifelong learning of people with disabilities;
4.support for lifelong learning in workplaces where the restructuring process was initiated within the meaning of the Act of May 15, 2015. Restructuring law (Journal of Laws of 2015, item 978).
LEGAL BASIS
• the Act of April 20, 2004 on employment promotion and labor market institutions (Journal of Laws of 2016, item 645, as amended) – Art. 69a and 69b, art. 109 paragraph. 2d-2n, art. 22 sec. 1 and 4 points 3 and 4, art. 4 sec. 1 point 7 letter hi (indicates the tasks of the minister competent for labor), art. In this case, the commission shall inform the Commission of the 1 point 2a (determines the tasks of the voivodeship self-government), art. 9 sec. 1 paragraph 3c (specifies the tasks of the district government);
• Regulation of the Minister of Labor and Social Policy of May 14, 2014. on the allocation of funds from the National Training Fund (Journal of Laws of 2014, item 639);
• the Act of April 30, 2004. on proceedings in matters relating to state aid (Journal of Laws of 2016, item 1818);
• Regulation of the Council of Ministers of March 29, 2010. on the scope of information provided by the entity applying for de minimis aid (Journal of Laws of 2010, No. 53, item 311, as amended);
• Regulation of the Council of Ministers of June 11, 2010. on information submitted by entities applying for de minimis aid in agriculture or fisheries (Journal of Laws of 6 July 2010);
• Commission Regulation (EU) No 1407/2013 of 18 December 2013. on the application of art. 107 and 108 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union to de minimis aid (Journal of Laws UE L 352 of 24 December 2013, p. 1), Commission Regulation (EU) No. 1408/2013 of 18 December 2013. on the application of art. 107 and 108 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union to de minimis aid in the agricultural sector (Journal of Laws UE L 352/9) and Commission Regulation (EU) No. 717/2014 of 27 June 2014. on the application of art. 107 and 108 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union to de minimis aid in the fishery and aquaculture sector (Official Journal of the EU L 190/45).
