Vienna Youth Foundation starts in 2025; continuation of Vienna training allowance for 4,330 Viennese
Starting in January 2025, the Vienna Youth Foundation will provide training for up to 1,000 participants over a period of four years. Participants will receive free training in a future-oriented profession, continue to receive unemployment benefits during their training and receive a training grant of 300 euros per month. The focus is on sectors with an urgent need for skilled workers, such as in the areas of health, care, social services, IT and climate protection-related professions. The waff and the AMS Vienna are working together for the Vienna Youth Foundation. With the decision of the Finance Committee, which will be made tomorrow, Monday, the City of Vienna is providing a total of 11.75 million euros for this purpose.
City Councillor for Economic Affairs Peter Hanke explains: “With the Vienna Youth Foundation, we are giving committed young Viennese people the opportunity to complete a future-proof education. They are given a good basis and clear prospects for further professional development. This is particularly important now in economically difficult times with rising unemployment.”
The Finance Committee also decided to continue the Vienna training allowance for 2025 and 2026. The Vienna training allowance is an additional financial security to unemployment benefits. Viennese people receive at least 1,400 euros per month for certain training courses in public services, digitalization and climate protection-related professions that last twelve months or longer. This makes the start into a new professional future affordable. 29.8 million euros in Vienna training allowance is available for around 4,330 Viennese people.
“The City of Vienna has taken the lead with the Vienna Training Allowance and introduced it in 2021 so that Viennese people can also afford to live during longer training courses. This attractive model helps us to train urgently needed skilled workers, for example in nursing, elementary education or IT. Basically, however, the federal government should take responsibility for ensuring that unemployed people can afford longer training courses,” explains City Councilor Hanke and continues: “The Vienna Youth Foundation and the Vienna Training Allowance are optimal measures to train Viennese people in sought-after professions in sectors where there is a need for skilled workers.”
