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Training grants and FUNDAE credit for companies

To train your staff, your company has a training credit each year, applied as a reduction in its social security contributions (Ley 30/2015, art. 9.4). According to FUNDAE, it is calculated on the previous year's vocational training levy: 100% for 1 to 9 employees, 75% for 10 to 49, 60% for 50 to 249 and 50% for more than 250, with €420 for companies with 1 to 5. Separately, the training offer for employed and unemployed people is funded through grants awarded by competitive call, open to accredited or registered training providers.

Source: Ley 30/2015 of 9 September on the Vocational Training System for Employment in the Workplace, art. 9 (2026-11-14) · FUNDAE, Fundación Estatal para la Formación en el Empleo (State Foundation for Training in Employment), Financing page (2026-11-14) · Ley 30/2015, art. 6 (2026-11-14)

What types of training grants exist

Vocational training for employment is paid for with the vocational training levy that companies and employees contribute, with contributions from the Spanish Employment Agency and with whatever own funds the autonomous communities may allocate. It can also be co-financed by the European Social Fund (Ley 30/2015, art. 6.1).

Ley 30/2015 distinguishes several initiatives: training programmed by companies for their employees, the training offer from the authorities for employed people, with sectoral and cross-sector programmes, the offer for unemployed people and others, such as individual training leave and training alternating with employment (art. 8). The offer for employed people covers what the training programmed by companies does not cover (art. 10).

Training programmed by companies is paid for with reductions in social security contributions, which are not grants. The training offer is funded with grants awarded through competitive calls to accredited or registered training providers and, in programmes with a hiring commitment, to companies that undertake to hire (art. 6.5).

In short: if you want to train your own staff, the usual first step is to look at your training credit. If you are a training provider, or your company undertakes to hire, what interests you are the grant calls, which have their own rules, deadline and budget.

Source: Ley 30/2015 of 9 September on the Vocational Training System for Employment in the Workplace, art. 6 (2026-11-14) · Ley 30/2015, art. 8 (2026-11-14) · Ley 30/2015, art. 10 (2026-11-14) · Ley 30/2015, art. 6 (2026-11-14)

Your company's training credit

This is the most common route for an SME. It is not a call that opens and closes: it is a balance the company has each year and uses up as it trains its people.

  • From the first day of each financial year the company has a training credit. It claims it as a reduction in its social security contributions as it reports the completion of each training action (Ley 30/2015, art. 9.4).
  • According to FUNDAE, the amount comes from applying to the previous year's vocational training levy the percentage set each year by the State Budget Law: 100% for 1 to 9 employees, 75% for 10 to 49, 60% for 50 to 249 and 50% for more than 250.
  • Companies with 1 to 5 employees get €420 instead of a percentage, according to FUNDAE.
  • Companies that take on employees through new workplaces or because they are newly created add €65 for each new employee, according to FUNDAE.
  • Companies with fewer than 50 employees can report in the first months of the financial year that they are setting aside the year's credit to accumulate it with that of the following 2 financial years. Whatever is unused in the last one is lost (art. 9.4).
  • In training programmed by companies, each training action lasts at least 2 hours (Ley 30/2015, art. 8).

Source: Ley 30/2015 of 9 September on the Vocational Training System for Employment in the Workplace, art. 9 (2026-11-14) · FUNDAE, Fundación Estatal para la Formación en el Empleo (State Foundation for Training in Employment), Financing page (2026-11-14) · Ley 30/2015, art. 9 (2026-11-14) · Ley 30/2015, art. 8 (2026-11-14)

What the company contributes: co-financing

The credit does not always cover the whole cost. Depending on the size of the workforce, the company has to pay part of it. It is worth bearing this in mind before you book a course.

  • Companies with 1 to 5 employees are exempt from co-financing.
  • From 6 to 9 employees, the company contributes at least 5% of the total cost of the training; from 10 to 49, 10%; from 50 to 249, 20%; and from 250 or more, 40% (Ley 30/2015, art. 9.5).
  • The salary costs of those who train during working hours count as co-financing, only for the hours in which they actually take part in the training.
  • If you train people affected by an ERTE or by the RED Mechanism, you get a credit increase of €425 per person for 1 to 9 employees, €400 for 10 to 49 and €320 for 50 or more (art. 9.7).

Source: Ley 30/2015, art. 9 (2026-11-14) · Ley 30/2015, art. 9 (2026-11-14)

Requirements that keep coming up

Some conditions appear again and again. Go through them before you start, not at the end.

  • The training must be related to the company's activity (Ley 30/2015, art. 9.2).
  • The training actions must be put to the employees' legal representatives for information. According to FUNDAE, if the company does not do so, it does not acquire or it loses the right to the reduction.
  • If the organisation is entrusted to an external body, the training is delivered by a body that is accredited or registered in the register of training providers (art. 9.3).
  • For grants: being up to date with the tax authorities, social security and any repayments owed, and not falling under the prohibitions in art. 13 of Ley 38/2003, General Grants Law.

Source: Ley 30/2015, art. 9 (2026-11-14) · FUNDAE, Financing page (2026-11-14) · Ley 38/2003, General Grants Law, art. 13 (2026-11-14)

Training the people you hire: the alternating training contract

The alternating training contract entitles you, for as long as it lasts, to a reduction of €91/month and another of €28/month in the employee's social security contributions (Real Decreto-ley 1/2023, art. 23). It does not apply in joint public employment and training programmes.

It is a reduction tied to the contract, not a call. If you are thinking of hiring someone to train them in your trade, ask whoever handles your payroll how it applies in your case.

Source: Real Decreto-ley 1/2023 of 10 January, art. 23 (2026-11-14)

What to watch so you do not lose the reduction

Most problems do not come from the course, but from the notices and paperwork around it.

  • Report to the Administration the start and the completion of each training action: the reduction is applied as you report completion (Ley 30/2015, art. 9).
  • Inform the employees' legal representatives.
  • Claim reductions only for training related to the company's activity.
  • If you set aside the credit, use it before the last of the following 2 financial years ends.
  • For grants, justify the training properly: insufficient justification is a ground for repayment (Ley 38/2003, art. 37).

Source: Ley 30/2015, art. 9 (2026-11-14) · Ley 30/2015 of 9 September on the Vocational Training System for Employment in the Workplace, art. 9 (2026-11-14) · FUNDAE, Financing page (2026-11-14) · Ley 30/2015, art. 9 (2026-11-14) · Ley 38/2003, General Grants Law, art. 37 (2026-11-14)

What Aupamos does with these grants

Training grants come out in calls that the authorities report to the National Grants Database (Ley 38/2003, arts. 18 and 20). That is where we give you a hand. If you have questions, write to us at hola@aupamos.com or send us your request with the Handle it for me form.

  • We alert you for free to every open grant that fits your province and your profile, with a summary in plain language, its deadline and the link to the official call.
  • If one interests you, the eligibility check is free and we reply within 48 hours on working days from when we have your complete details.
  • If it fits and you accept the proposal in writing, we prepare and submit the application on your behalf with your power of attorney, within the deadline, we answer any requests to correct the application and we follow the file through to the decision and payment.
  • We only charge if the grant is awarded and you get paid: 15% + VAT (21%) of the amount awarded up to €20,000 and 10% + VAT (21%) of the part between €20,000 and €100,000. There is no upfront payment: we invoice once the money is in your account. You pay it yourself from your own funds, separately from the grant.
  • We are a private service of Vera Senses S.L., independent of any administration. The official call and its rules are the only valid source for the conditions of each grant.
  • The award is decided by the Administration that issues the call, under the call's rules and its budget, and no award is ever assured.

Source: Ley 38/2003 of 17 November, General Grants Law, arts. 18 and 20 (2026-11-14) · Vera Senses S.L., owner of aupamos.com (Aitor, 2026-11-14) (2026-11-14) · Vera Senses S.L., owner of aupamos.com (Aitor, 2026-11-14) (2026-11-14) · Vera Senses S.L., owner of aupamos.com (Aitor, 2026-11-14) (2026-11-14) · Vera Senses S.L., owner of aupamos.com (Aitor, 2026-11-14) (2026-11-14) · Vera Senses S.L., owner of aupamos.com (Aitor, 2026-11-14) (2026-11-14) · Vera Senses S.L., owner of aupamos.com (Aitor, 2026-11-14) (2026-11-14)

Frequently asked questions

Do I have to apply for the training credit?

It is not a call. The credit is available from the first day of each financial year and is claimed as a reduction in contributions as you report the completion of each training action (Ley 30/2015, art. 9.4).

Source: Ley 30/2015 of 9 September on the Vocational Training System for Employment in the Workplace, art. 9 (2026-11-14)

My company has 1 to 5 employees. How much credit do I have?

According to FUNDAE, companies with 1 to 5 employees get €420 instead of a percentage, and the law exempts them from co-financing. FUNDAE states that the percentage for the rest is set each year by the State Budget Law.

Source: FUNDAE, Fundación Estatal para la Formación en el Empleo (State Foundation for Training in Employment), Financing page (2026-11-14) · Ley 30/2015, art. 9 (2026-11-14)

Can I accumulate the credit from several years?

If you have fewer than 50 employees, you can report in the first months of the financial year that you are setting aside the year's credit to add it to that of the following 2 financial years. Whatever is unused in the last of those years is lost.

Source: Ley 30/2015, art. 9 (2026-11-14)

What happens if I do not inform the employees' representatives?

According to FUNDAE, if the company does not put the training actions to the employees' legal representatives for information, it does not acquire or it loses the right to the reduction for that training.

Source: FUNDAE, Financing page (2026-11-14)

Are training reductions a grant?

No. The law says that reductions in contributions are not grants and apply to training programmed by companies. Grants awarded through competitive calls go to the training offer for employed and unemployed people (Ley 30/2015, art. 6.5).

Source: Ley 30/2015, art. 6 (2026-11-14)

How much do you charge if you handle a training grant for me?

We only charge if the grant is awarded and you get paid: 15% + VAT (21%) of the amount awarded up to €20,000 and 10% + VAT (21%) of the part between €20,000 and €100,000. It is invoiced once the money is in your account, with no upfront payment, and you pay it from your own funds.

Source: Vera Senses S.L., owner of aupamos.com (Aitor, 2026-11-14) (2026-11-14)

Can you assure me that I will be awarded it?

No. The award is decided by the Administration that issues the call, with its rules and its budget. What we do is check the requirements, prepare and submit the application properly and on time, answer any requests to correct it and follow the file.

Source: Vera Senses S.L., owner of aupamos.com (Aitor, 2026-11-14) (2026-11-14)

Sources

  • Each year, from the first day of the financial year, companies have a training credit that they claim through reductions in their social security contributions as they report the completion of training actions; it is calculated on the vocational training levy paid the previous year (Ley 30/2015, art. 9.4). (Ley 30/2015 of 9 September on the Vocational Training System for Employment in the Workplace, art. 9, 2026-11-14)
  • Companies with fewer than 50 employees can report in the first months of the financial year their wish to set aside the year's credit to accumulate it with that of the following 2 financial years; whatever is unused in the last one is lost (Ley 30/2015, art. 9.4). (Ley 30/2015, art. 9, 2026-11-14)
  • Companies co-finance the training with at least these percentages of the total cost: from 6 to 9 employees, 5%; from 10 to 49, 10%; from 50 to 249, 20%; from 250 or more, 40%; those with 1 to 5 are exempt; the salary costs of those who train during working hours count, only for the hours in which they actually take part in the training (Ley 30/2015, art. 9.5). (Ley 30/2015, art. 9, 2026-11-14)
  • Companies that train people affected by an ERTE or by the RED Mechanism get a credit increase of €425 per person (1 to 9 employees), €400 (10 to 49) or €320 (50 or more) (Ley 30/2015, art. 9.7). (Ley 30/2015, art. 9, 2026-11-14)
  • Training actions programmed by companies must be related to the business activity and respect the right of the employees' legal representatives to information and consultation; the company reports to the Administration the start and the completion of each training action; if it entrusts the organisation to an external body, the training is delivered by a body that is accredited or registered in the register of training providers (Ley 30/2015, art. 9.2 and 9.3). (Ley 30/2015, art. 9, 2026-11-14)
  • The training offer for employed workers meets the needs not covered by the training programmed by companies, through sectoral and cross-sector training programmes (Ley 30/2015, art. 10). (Ley 30/2015, art. 10, 2026-11-14)
  • According to FUNDAE, the credit results from applying to the previous year's vocational training levy the percentage set each year by the State Budget Law according to the average workforce: 100% for 1 to 9 employees, 75% for 10 to 49, 60% for 50 to 249 and 50% for more than 250; companies with 1 to 5 get €420 instead of a percentage, and those that take on employees through new workplaces or newly created ones get €65 for each new employee. (FUNDAE, Fundación Estatal para la Formación en el Empleo (State Foundation for Training in Employment), Financing page, 2026-11-14)
  • According to FUNDAE, the company must put the training actions to the employees' legal representatives for information; if it does not, it does not acquire or it loses the right to the reduction. (FUNDAE, Financing page, 2026-11-14)
  • The alternating training contract entitles you, for as long as it lasts, to a reduction of €91/month and another of €28/month in the employee's contributions; it does not apply in joint public employment-training programmes (Real Decreto-ley 1/2023, art. 23). (Real Decreto-ley 1/2023 of 10 January, art. 23, 2026-11-14)
  • The National Grants Database is the national system for publicising grants; the authorities report their calls and awards to it (Ley 38/2003, arts. 18 and 20). (Ley 38/2003 of 17 November, General Grants Law, arts. 18 and 20, 2026-11-14)
  • Among others, people or entities in insolvency proceedings, convicted or penalised with the loss of the right to grants, or not up to date with the tax authorities, social security or any repayments owed cannot be grant beneficiaries (Ley 38/2003, art. 13.2). (Ley 38/2003, General Grants Law, art. 13, 2026-11-14)
  • Repayment is due, among other cases, for total or partial failure to meet the objective or the activity, for insufficient justification or for failure to meet the commitments undertaken with the award (Ley 38/2003, art. 37.1). (Ley 38/2003, General Grants Law, art. 37, 2026-11-14)
  • The vocational training system for employment is funded with the vocational training levy that companies and employees contribute, with contributions from the Spanish Employment Agency and with whatever own funds the autonomous communities may allocate; it can be co-financed by the European Social Fund (Ley 30/2015, art. 6.1). (Ley 30/2015 of 9 September on the Vocational Training System for Employment in the Workplace, art. 6, 2026-11-14)
  • Reductions in social security contributions, which are not grants, apply to training programmed by companies; grants awarded through competitive calls apply to the training offer for unemployed and employed workers, open to accredited or registered training providers and, in programmes with hiring commitments, to companies that undertake to hire (Ley 30/2015, art. 6.5). (Ley 30/2015, art. 6, 2026-11-14)
  • The initiatives in vocational training for employment are the training programmed by companies for their employees, the training offer from the competent authorities for employed workers (sectoral and cross-sector programmes) and for unemployed workers, and others such as individual training leave and training alternating with employment; in training programmed by companies, each training action lasts at least 2 hours (Ley 30/2015, art. 8). (Ley 30/2015, art. 8, 2026-11-14)
  • Aupamos is a private service of Vera Senses S.L., independent of any administration; the official call and its rules are the only valid source for the conditions of each grant (declared by the owner). (Vera Senses S.L., owner of aupamos.com (Aitor, 2026-11-14), 2026-11-14)
  • The alerts are free: anyone who signs up with their email, province and profile (self-employed, SME, association or individual) receives by email every open grant that fits their province and profile, with a summary in plain language, the deadline and the link to the official call (declared by the owner). (Vera Senses S.L., owner of aupamos.com (Aitor, 2026-11-14), 2026-11-14)
  • If the grant fits and the client accepts the proposal in writing, Aupamos prepares and submits the application on their behalf with their power of attorney, within the call's deadline, answers any requests to correct the application and follows the file through to the decision and payment (declared by the owner). (Vera Senses S.L., owner of aupamos.com (Aitor, 2026-11-14), 2026-11-14)
  • The award is decided by the Administration that issues the call, under the call's rules and its budget, and no award is ever assured; Aupamos undertakes to check the requirements, prepare and submit the application correctly and on time, answer any requests and follow the file (declared by the owner). (Vera Senses S.L., owner of aupamos.com (Aitor, 2026-11-14), 2026-11-14)
  • Handling is charged only if the grant is awarded and the client gets paid: 15% + VAT (21%) of the amount awarded up to €20,000 and 10% + VAT (21%) of the part between €20,000 and €100,000; it is invoiced once the money is in the client's account, with no upfront payment; the client pays the fee from their own funds and it does not come out of the grant (declared by the owner). (Vera Senses S.L., owner of aupamos.com (Aitor, 2026-11-14), 2026-11-14)
  • The eligibility check is free and is answered within 48 hours on working days from when the complete details are received (declared by the owner). (Vera Senses S.L., owner of aupamos.com (Aitor, 2026-11-14), 2026-11-14)

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