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Apply for funding for educational providers to support hard-to-reach young people

Are you a certified educational institution that wants to provide individual support to young people in difficult life situations? You can receive funding for this.

Detailed description

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.

 

Information

Prerequisites

  • They are certified as educational institutions according to the Accreditation and Approval Regulation (AZAV).
  • The young people who are eligible for support services,
    • are between 15 and under 25 years old
    • have a high probability of being entitled to unemployment benefit II
    • have the fundamental goal of
      • to begin and complete an education or vocational qualification
      • to find a job
      • To apply for or accept social benefits.
  • Their potential support services are individually tailored to include, for example:
    • to stabilize the financial situation
    • to assist with applications for social benefits
    • to provide support in the search for accommodation or in stabilizing the housing situation
    • to accompany people to appointments with authorities
    • to introduce to therapeutic treatments
    • to help with building social networks
    • to support the development of work and social behavior or willingness to learn and educate
    • to prepare for obtaining school qualifications and for taking up employment or training.

Documents required

The required documents vary depending on the individual case. The responsible authority can provide you with the relevant information.

Please note

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.

Deadlines

When participating in tenders, you must observe the bid deadline.

Procedure

There are two ways to obtain funding for hard-to-reach young people.
Procurement procedure (public contract)

  • You go to the website of the Federal Office of Administration or to the e-procurement platform of the procurement office of the Federal Ministry.
  • They use the search function on the pages to find suitable job postings.
  • They prepare a bid based on the framework conditions specified in the tender documents.
  • Your contact person will inform you about all further steps.

Project funding

  • You are developing a concept for your project. Here, you should also specify the amount of your own funds and, if applicable, municipal or state funds that will be used for financing.
  • They inquire with the relevant authority about how to apply for project funding.
  • Submit an application for financial assistance.
  • Your contact person will inform you about all further steps.

Processing time


  • Procurement procedure: The contract will be awarded approximately 2 months after the end of the bidding period.

  • Project funding: Processing time varies depending on the individual case.

Fees

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.

Legal remedies


  • contradiction

  • administrative lawsuit

Legal basis

Section 16h of the Second Book of the Social Code (SGB II)


https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/sgb_2/__16h.html

Address and contact information

Job center team.arbeit.hamburg

Mon, Tue, Thu, Fri 7:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m., also by prior tel. Agreement, Thu additionally only for working people 3-5 p.m

You can find your contact person here:


https://www.arbeitsagentur.de/ueber-uns/ansprechpartner

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Keywords: Job centre apprenticeship Youth welfare unemployed Unemployment II Hartz IV social care citizen money

Last updated: 16.02.2026