Publication date: 22/02/2019

Expected closure: 31/12/2019

Summary of the Notice 

The Notice funds company, sectoral, and territorial plans aimed at strengthening and developing workers' employability, adaptability, and skills, as well as increasing their competitiveness.

The Notice will remain open until December 31, 2019.

The total financial allocation for the Call is €33.000.000,00 (thirty-three million Euros).

Each individual company, even if it benefits from multiple Plans, is entitled to a total amount of funding based on the number of employees enrolled in the Fund as of January 31, 2019 (as of January 2019), excluding managers. The following table shows the funding categories.

The financing requested from the Fund for each Plan may not exceed the value of €2.000.000,00 (two million Euros).

The actual funding of a training plan will be related to the total score obtained, according to the following parameters:

Score-based financing parameterization

The essential requirements to be involved in a training plan of this Notice are:

a) membership completed by 31 January 2019 (valid for December 2018);

b) total contribution, as of January 31, 2019, equal to or greater than €3.000,00;

c) be in compliance, starting from the contribution declaration for January 2013, with the entry into the CFI (Interprofessional Fund Contribution) computer system of the data relating to the monthly declarations submitted to INPS;

d) number of employees registered with the Fund as of January 31, 2019 (as of January 2019), excluding managers, equal to or greater than 501;

e) number of employees registered with the Fund as of 31 January 2019 (as of January 2019), excluding managers, less than 501 but belonging to a Group whose Lead Company meets the requirement set out in the previous letter d).

Companies falling under letter e) may choose to participate in Notice 3/19 if they are submitting exclusively for their employees. In this case, they cannot also participate in Notice 1/19.

Funding applications can be submitted exclusively online from March 20, 2019.

Activities may only begin after the funding application has been submitted to the Fund and must be completed within 12 months of the Plan submission date, under penalty of revocation or revision of the funding.

The financing parameters provided by the Fund for one hour of training per worker are indicated in the following table:

Any type of training activity carried out through on-the-job training, project work, or participation in seminars and conferences will be valued at €10,00/hour.

Distance learning (FAD) training activities will be valued at €20,00/h and the system used must provide for learning certification.

Mandatory training is included in the following topics and will be financed if explicitly provided for by the Parties in the Trade Union Agreement and only in the event of use of the "de minimis" aid regime (EU Commission Regulation No. 1407/2013):

– Consolidated law on safety (Legislative Decree 81/2008) and subsequent amendments;

– IVASS Regulation no. 40 of 2 August 2018, relating to the subjects required to comply with the training and refresher courses provided for in Part IV, Title 1, Article 86 of the IVASS Regulation (see Annex 1).

The training and refresher courses required by IVASS Regulation No. 40 of 2 August 2018 are not considered mandatory training if requested by the following entities:

– insurance and reinsurance companies;

– intermediaries registered in sections A (Agents), B (Brokers) and D (Banks, SIM, Financial Intermediaries and Poste Italiane) of the RUI (Single Electronic Register of Insurance and Reinsurance Intermediaries).

DOWNLOAD THE NOTICE