You can ask BMZ to fund your participation in the Skills4Abroad programme if you meet the following criteria:
You are an expert or manager and work
- in the context of German development/international cooperation or to ensure its effectiveness,
- in a country on the DAC country list (or under a regional approach with a focus on a country on the DAC country list),
- for at least one year (or as an intermittent expert based abroad for at least one year, but with business trips of up to 6 months a year to Germany).
Accompanying partners (MAP) can also attend most of the courses financed by the BMZ provided that the time spent abroad ads up to one year. Training participation by teenagers aged 14 or 16 and over will be assessed on a case-by-case basis.
The following institutions are eligible to take part in our programme:
- German federal ministries (especially BMZ and the Federal Foreign Office) and their subordinate units or departments;
- German development cooperation implementing organisations: the Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW), Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), the Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe (BGR), the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, and consulting firms engaged by KfW or GIZ;
- recognised development services and political foundations;
- non-governmental organisations and universities that receive a grant from BMZ or are involved in a BMZ-funded project.
If you do not meet these conditions, then you can find information on fee-based participation here: fee-based participation.