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Aids and grants

Both the SOC and the Consorci per a la Formació Contínua de Catalunya are committed to training.

The SOC offers aids and grants to unemployed people who take part in training activities available, within the following programmes:

Aids and grants 2009

• Initial Professional Qualification (PQPI)
• Actions of training offer linked to the catalog of Qualification Professional of Catalonia
• Courses of the Consorci per a la Formació Contínua de Catalunya.

Aids and grants 2008-2009

• Occupational professional training.
• Workshop schools, trade skills centres.
• Courses of the Consorci per a la Formació Contínua de Catalunya.

Requests of aids and grants

You must present the filled out forms to the centre where you are undertaking the training and from there they are processed via the corresponding Work Office..

Deadline

The request can be presented from the beginning of the action until the date of ending, including the period of practices in the companies if it is proper.

Regulation

• Order TRE/349/2008, of the 9 July, which regulates the regime of helps and scholarships to the unemployed workers and companies established on the subject of training.
• Order TRE/396/2009, of the 2 September, which modifies the Order TRE/349/2008, of the 9 July, which regulates the regime of helps and scholarships to the unemployed workers and companies established on the subject of training.

Aids and grants 2009

(For formative actions of offer started from the 15 September 2009, included)

Information

• Information to the pupils to request aids and grants 2009
• Information about aids and grants 2009
• Information about the SOC card of prepayment

Forms

Help for stays of professional perfection abroad (EPPE)

• G146NAJB-001 - Request of help for stays of professional perfection abroad (EPPE)

Help for public transport

• G146NAJB-002 - Request of help for public transport for the formative action
• G146NAJB-003 - Request of help for public transport for practices in the formative action
• G146NAJB-004 - Request of help for public transport for practices of professional perfection

Help for maintenance

• G146NAJB-005 - Request of help for maintenance for the formative action
• G146NAJB-006 - Request of help for maintenance for practices in the formative action
• G146NAJB-007 - Request of help for maintenance for practices of professional perfection

Help for maintenance and accommodation

• G146NAJB-008 - Request of help for maintenance and accommodation for the formative action
• G146NAJB-009 - Request of help for maintenance and accommodation for practices in the formative action
• G146NAJB-010 - Request of help for maintenance and accommodation for practices of professional perfection

Scholarship for assistance

• G146NAJB-011 - Request of scholarship for assistance for the formative action
• G146NAJB-012 - Request of scholarship for assistance for practices of professional perfection

Help to the conciliation

• G146NAJB-013 - Request of help to the conciliation for the formative action
• G146NAJB-014 - Request of help to the conciliation for the formative action

Aids and grants 2008-2009

(For formative actions of offer started before the 15 September 2009)

Information

• Information about the card of prepayment

Forms

• Application for aid or grant