Project Description

IEFP Internships INICIAR

Hiring Support

Estágios INICIAR is an IEFP measure aimed at supporting hiring, promoting employment and getting young people and unemployed people with level 4 or 5 qualifications into companies. The Grant provides for a contribution of up to 80 per cent for the entities promoting the measure.

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Support Status

Open

Financing

Up to 80%

Territory

Mainland Portugal

Eligible Entities

Natural Persons
Legal Persons

IEFP Internships INICIAR

Hiring Support

Estágios INICIAR is an IEFP measure aimed at supporting hiring, promoting employment and getting young people and unemployed people with level 4 or 5 qualifications into companies. The Grant provides for a contribution of up to 80 per cent for the entities promoting the measure.

Download the Infosheet

Support Status

Open

Financing

Up to 80%

Territory

Mainland Portugal

Eligible Entities

Natural Persons
Legal Persons

Incentive Conditions

  • Internships lasting 6 months, which cannot be extended, with a view to promoting the integration of young people and other unemployed people with NQF level 4 or 5 qualifications.
  • Objectives:
    • To promote the professional integration of unemployed people into the labour market, through the development of work experience;
    • To improve the transition mechanisms between the vocational education and training system and their suitability for the labour market, boosting their employability in companies;
    • Promote the increase and improvement of people’s qualifications.

  • Continental Portugal

  • For trainees
    • Monthly internship grant of the following amounts:
      • 1.7 IAS* – level 4: 865.74 €
      • 1,8 IAS – level 5: 916,67 €
      • Meal or food allowance
      • Work accident insurance
  • For the promoting organizations
    • The financial contribution from the IEFP is based on unit costs, per month and per traineeship, as follows:
    • Internship grant
      • 80% contribution in the following situations:
      • Traineeship for a profession with a gender underrepresentation;
      • Internships located in inland areas:
      • Internships for people with disabilities;
      • When an open-ended full-time employment contract is signed with the trainee within 20 working days of completing the traineeship.
      • 65% contribution in all other situations.

  • Natural or legal persons, of a private legal nature, with or without a profit motive.

  • Unemployed people registered with the employment services who fulfill one of the following conditions:
    • Aged 18 or over and 35 or under, with an NQF level 4 or 5 qualification;
    • Over the age of 35, who have not been granted an old age pension, provided that they have obtained an NQF level 4 or 5 qualification in the last 24 months;
    • Disabled people with a qualification level 4 or 5 of the NQF or lower.
  • Other recipients are people with NQF level 4 or 5 qualifications who, regardless of age, are registered as unemployed with the IEFP and who fulfill one of the following conditions:
    • They are part of a single-parent family;
    • Whose spouse or partner is also registered as unemployed with the IEFP;
    • Victims of domestic violence;
    • Refugees and beneficiaries of temporary protection;
    • Ex-prisoners and those who are serving or have served non-custodial sentences or judicial measures and are able to return to working life;
    • Drug addicts or alcoholics in the process of recovery;
    • Have served in the Armed Forces under a Contract, Special Contract or Volunteer Scheme;
    • Are homeless or in the process of social integration in a response defined for this purpose;
    • Those who have been recognised as Informal Carers and who have provided care as the main informal carer;
    • Other specific publics to be defined in specific regulations or by order of the member of the Government responsible for employment, depending on public policy priorities;
    • Those who have been given the promotion and protection measure of residential care.

Incentive Conditions

Internships lasting 6 months, which cannot be extended, with a view to promoting the integration of young people and other unemployed people with NQF level 4 or 5 qualifications.
Objectives:
To promote the professional integration of unemployed people into the labour market, through the development of work experience;
To improve the transition mechanisms between the vocational education and training system and their suitability for the labour market, boosting their employability in companies;
Promote the increase and improvement of people’s qualifications.

Continental Portugal

For trainees
Monthly internship grant of the following amounts:
1.7 IAS* – level 4: 865.74 €
1,8 IAS – level 5: 916,67 €
Meal or food allowance
Work accident insurance
For the promoting organizations
The financial contribution from the IEFP is based on unit costs, per month and per traineeship, as follows:
Internship grant
80% contribution in the following situations:
Traineeship for a profession with a gender underrepresentation;
Internships located in inland areas:
Internships for people with disabilities;
When an open-ended full-time employment contract is signed with the trainee within 20 working days of completing the traineeship.
65% contribution in all other situations.

Natural or legal persons, of a private legal nature, with or without a profit motive.

Unemployed people registered with the employment services who fulfill one of the following conditions:
Aged 18 or over and 35 or under, with an NQF level 4 or 5 qualification;
Over the age of 35, who have not been granted an old age pension, provided that they have obtained an NQF level 4 or 5 qualification in the last 24 months;
Disabled people with a qualification level 4 or 5 of the NQF or lower.
Other recipients are people with NQF level 4 or 5 qualifications who, regardless of age, are registered as unemployed with the IEFP and who fulfill one of the following conditions:
They are part of a single-parent family;
Whose spouse or partner is also registered as unemployed with the IEFP;
Victims of domestic violence;
Refugees and beneficiaries of temporary protection;
Ex-prisoners and those who are serving or have served non-custodial sentences or judicial measures and are able to return to working life;
Drug addicts or alcoholics in the process of recovery;
Have served in the Armed Forces under a Contract, Special Contract or Volunteer Scheme;
Are homeless or in the process of social integration in a response defined for this purpose;
Those who have been recognised as Informal Carers and who have provided care as the main informal carer;
Other specific publics to be defined in specific regulations or by order of the member of the Government responsible for employment, depending on public policy priorities;
Those who have been given the promotion and protection measure of residential care.

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