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If you work as an educational institution with young people or young adults who are difficult or impossible to reach through the services of the social welfare system, you can apply for funding for your work.
If you work as an educational institution with young people or young adults who are difficult or impossible to reach through the services of the social welfare system, you can apply for funding for your work.
The required documents vary depending on the individual case. The responsible authority can provide you with the relevant information.
Generally, services of this kind are primarily provided by other social service providers (for example, youth welfare services). As a certified educational provider, you can therefore only receive funding if similar services from these primary social service providers do not exist locally and are not required to be provided as a priority.
Funding can be publicly advertised by the responsible body or provided as project funding under grant law. Project funding must be limited in time and scope; institutional funding is not possible.
When participating in tenders, you must observe the bid deadline.
There are two ways to obtain funding for hard-to-reach young people.
Procurement procedure (public contract)
Project funding
When receiving project funding, you, as the project sponsor, are required to contribute your own funds to the project. There are no costs for participants.
Section 16h of the Second Book of the Social Code (SGB II)
https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/sgb_2/__16h.html
Keywords: Job centre apprenticeship Youth welfare unemployed Unemployment II Hartz IV social care citizen money
Last updated: 16.02.2026