Corporate funded training and digital culture

You can get the most out of digital technology when you learn to exploit its full potential and identify new ones. Digital culture is the element thanks to which tools that appeared complex become an integral part of daily life and are used effortlessly and without fear. For companies that choose to start digitizing their processes, training becomes an important investment. Thanks to specific tools, such as inter-professional funds, it is possible to define funded training courses and spread the digital culture in the company by reducing the costs borne by the company.

What is funded training?

With funded training we mean the training courses organized for a single company or for several companies at covered costs, in whole or in part, through financing instruments. We must not think about the involvement of credit institutions: the subjects active in the financing of training are bodies set up specifically for this purpose or institutions that define calls for tenders or specific financing mechanisms.

Interprofessional funds

The full name is National Interprofessional Joint Funds for Continuing Education. These are entities authorized by the Ministry of Labor with the aim of promoting the training of workers through a funding for courses.

Each company can decide to join one of the professional funds active on the national territory through the UNIEMENS flow (the system for forwarding monthly salary reports). Once the adhesion has started, a component of the contributions paid to INPS by the company goes to constitute a provision that can be spent for company training.

The component of the contributions that constitutes the training fund is the supplementary contribution for compulsory insurance against involuntary unemployment, equal to 0.30% of the contributions paid. This element of the contribution is returned to the company, minus the administrative costs, through the inter-professional fund to which it chooses to join. In other words, the company, which is always required to pay this contribution, can use it to its advantage only if it decides to join an inter-professional fund.

For small businesses for which the provisioning funds are small, there is the possibility of exploiting the so-called “Notices” issued by each individual fund, which may involve several companies belonging to a given sector or a given geographical area (system accounts) adhering to that given fund.

An example? On January 20, Fondimpresa, one of the best-known inter-professional funds, published the Notice 1/2021, with which it made available 20 million euros to finance “training in support of digital and / or technological innovation of product and / or process in member companies “.

Credito Training 4.0 and territorial tenders

We talked about the National Transition Plan 4.0 regarding the facilities for industry 4.0. And let’s talk about it in relation to funded training because the possibility for companies to take advantage of the tax credit also applies to the training of employees and entrepreneurs. Specifically, we are talking about Credito Training 4.0 and reference is made to investments for the two-year period 2021 and 2022.

We should also consider the territorial tenders, with which Provinces or Regions can support the digitization of specific sectors, allowing to acquire not only the technology but also the awareness for an effective use.

And Teamax, thanks to its partners, can help you find the best solution for your business reality.