Estonian Unemployment Insurance Fund covers up to 80% of your employees’ IT training costs
Autor: Olga Luštšik
The Estonian Unemployment Insurance Fund (Töötukassa) reimburses employers up to 80% of employees’ ICT training costs – up to €5,000 per employee. This is a great opportunity to implement the recommendations in your Digitalisation Roadmap and train your employees to use new IT solutions.
The Estonian Unemployment Insurance Fund (Töötukassa) reimburses employers up to 80% of employees’ ICT training costs – up to €5,000 per employee. This is a great opportunity to implement the recommendations in your Digitalisation Roadmap and train your employees to use new IT solutions.
We have prepared Digitalisation Roadmaps for many of our clients, outlining recommendations for adopting specific IT solutions – whether it’s an ERP system, 3D design software, a BIM solution, a data analytics platform, an AI-based tool or another digital solution. However, there is one step in implementing the Roadmap recommendations that companies often underestimate: training employees to use the new solution.
This is where the Unemployment Insurance Fund’s training support for developing employees’ ICT skills comes in. The Fund reimburses up to 80% of training costs, up to a maximum of €5,000 per employee over three years. This is an open-ended programme – support can be applied for on an ongoing basis.
What types of training are eligible?
The support covers all ICT-related training that helps employees learn to use new software or digital solutions. For example:
- ERP system (e.g. business management software) implementation training
- 3D design and engineering software training
- BIM technology training in the construction sector
- Data analytics and business intelligence tools (e.g. Power BI) training
- Artificial intelligence (AI) application training across various sectors
- Other sector-specific IT solution training
These are often the very same solutions recommended in your Digitalisation Roadmap.
Key requirements
Training support can be applied for by private companies, sole proprietors and local government institutions. The application must be submitted via e-Töötukassa before the training begins. The total training volume must be at least 50 academic hours and may last up to one year. The employee’s employment contract must be indefinite or valid for at least six more months. The company must have paid unemployment insurance contributions for at least 24 months within the past 36 months.
In addition to training costs, it is also possible to apply for support for the time an employee spends in training, at the minimum hourly wage rate.
More information and applications: Töötukassa website
If you don’t have a Digitalisation Roadmap yet
If you don’t yet know exactly which IT solutions your company needs or in what order to undertake digitalisation projects, it’s worth starting with the preparation of a Digitalisation Roadmap. Digiwise analyses your company’s processes, identifies bottlenecks and prepares a Digitalisation Roadmap – a concrete action plan for implementing digitalisation projects in the coming years, with recommendations on suitable software solutions and their implementation.
Based on the Digitalisation Roadmap, you will gain a clear overview of what to do and in what order, and you can immediately take advantage of the Unemployment Insurance Fund’s training support to train your employees.
