Of the 277 million euros, around 222 million will be invested directly in further training measures, which corresponds to around 80 percent of the total budget, according to Labor Minister Martin Kocher (ÖVP) in a broadcast. With the EU funds, 94,000 people with formally low qualifications would benefit from measures. This ranges from programs especially for the long-term unemployed, into which 35 million flow from the ARF, to youth coaching, in the financing and further development of which a further 20 million are invested.
Youth coaching is an individually tailored, low-threshold support offer that takes place in schools or in counseling facilities. The additional funds from the development and resilience fund primarily support the expansion of forms of counseling and care for young people to include digital formats. “Around 18,000 young people will benefit from this,” the Minister of Labor continued.
Digitization, care and the environment
A significant portion of the budget is also going into the training areas of digitization, care and the environment. This is to ensure the qualification of 30,000 people in the IT / digitization area alone. In addition, the funds include further training opportunities for around 8,000 people in the care sector and for several thousand people in the field of environment and sustainability. Together with the AMS, a special focus will be placed on the advancement of women in all further training programs. “We have therefore defined 55 percent of women to be promoted in the priority areas of digitization and IT, care and the environment,” explains Kocher.
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