Financial support for training places

• Financial support in maritime shipping
• Conditions
• Applications
• Accounting

Financial support in maritime shipping

The federal government supports the provision of training places on board of seagoing ships operated under the flag of Germany or of another EEA state. Financial support is granted for training places of ship mechanics as well as for navigational and engineering officer's assistants (NOA/TOA). In addition as of the subsidisation year 2023, training places of electro-technical officer's assistants (ETOA) are subsidised for the first time as well. The cost of training places are subsidised by lump sums per vocational training place as follows:

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Conditions

From the subsidisation year 2023, the training ships have to be listed in a shipping register of an EU member state or an EEA state as well as fly the flag of an EU member state or an EEA state during the period of the grant.

This regulation applies to training contracts made for maritime vocational training places from the 1^st January 2023. The seamless transition from the "old" to the current subsidisation guideline for contracts still made in the year 2022 is ensured with a transition regulation (only for training places that had been eligible for subsidisation before).

Please apply for subsidies with a single application (Sammelantrag). The requested information in the single application is about the company and the number of planned vocational training relationships. Eligible to apply are shipowners within the meaning of § 4 of the Maritime Labour Act (Seearbeitsgesetz) (the owner of the ship, contractual shipowners, bareboat-charterers, however not crewing agencies) providing training places eligible for financial support.

Please note:
Already before closing of the training or employment agreements, you have to wait for the notification of the BSH regarding the single application (Sammelantrag) which recognizes the general qualification for financial support. Otherwise the financial support is not possible.

After the contracts have been closed, you will have to apply for each vocational training place with a supplementary individual application. Subsequently,  the BSH verifies every vocational training relationship and issues a final notification for each individual case. No term of preclusion exists for the supplementary individual application. However, the BSH recommends to apply as early as possible since the contribution is only granted with the final notice and only then a claim to the payment exists.

Please submit the applications in written form to:

Bundesamt für Seeschifffahrt und Hydrographie
Bernhard-Nocht-Straße 78
20359 Hamburg

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Applications

• Guide - electronic forms
• Sammelantrag auf Ausbildungsplatzförderung für Vertragsabschlüsse im Jahr 2023 (single application for financial support of training places of contracts closed in 2023, in German only)
• Ergänzender Einzelantrag OA für Vertragsabschlüsse im Jahr 2023 (soon to come)
  (supplementary individual application OA of contracts closed in 2023, in German only)
• Ergänzender Einzelantrag SM für Vertragsabschlüsse im Jahr 2023 (soon to come)
  (supplementary individual application SM of contracts closed in 2023, in German only)

Further information on the support programme can be found in the "Richtlinie zur Ausbildungsplatzförderung in der Seeschifffahrt vom 9. November 2022" - Federal Ministry of Digital and Transport (Bundesanzeiger vom 29.11.2022, BAnz AT 29.11.2022, B3).

Applications for training places that had been eligible before (transitional regulation)

• Ergänzender Einzelantrag OA für Vertragsabschlüsse im Jahr 2022 (supplementary individual application OA of contracts closed in 2022, in German only)
• Ergänzender Einzelantrag SM für Vertragsabschlüsse im Jahr 2022 (supplementary individual application SM of contracts closed in 2022, in German only)

You find further information on the support programme in "Richtlinie zur Ausbildungsplatzförderung in der Seeschifffahrt vom 7. Oktober 2019" - Federal ministry of transport and digital infrastructure (Bundesanzeiger vom 11.10.2019, BAnz AT 11.10.2019 B3).

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Accounting

Recipients of subsidies for vocational training places are accountable within six months after the training has been completed. This account must be submitted in writing and complete to:

Bundesamt für Seeschifffahrt und Hydrographie
Bernhard-Nocht-Straße 78
D 20359 Hamburg

Please use the following forms:

support of training places 2021

• Verwendungsnachweis Ausbildungsplatzförderung 2021 (für Schiffsmechaniker und Offiziersassistenten) (account for financial support of training places 2021 - ship mechanics and assistant officers)

support of training places 2020

• Verwendungsnachweis Ausbildungsplatzförderung 2020 (für Schiffsmechaniker und Offiziersassistenten) (account for financial support of training places 2020 - ship mechanics and assistant officers)

support of training places 2019

• Verwendungsnachweis Ausbildungsplatzförderung 2019 (für Schiffsmechaniker und Offiziersassistenten) (account for financial support of training places 2019 - ship mechanics and assistant officers)

support of training places 2018

• Verwendungsnachweis Ausbildungsplatzförderung 2018 (für Schiffsmechaniker und Offiziersassistenten) (account for financial support of training places 2018 - ship mechanics and assistant officers)

Further information on accounting can be found in the notification of appropriation of funds and in the following guidelines:

• Richtlinie zur Ausbildungsplatzförderung in der Seeschifffahrt vom 06. Oktober 2015 (guideline of 6 October 2015 for financial support of training places)

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