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Are you a foreign national having difficulties to find a job in Slovakia? Would you like to improve your qualifications or acquire new ones? The Migration Information Centre of the International Organization for Migration (MIC) in Bratislava and Košice will help you with your job search and advise you on the possibility of improving your skills and qualifications.

We offer you the opportunity of a financial contribution (of max. 548 EUR) towards a requalification or educational course of your choice. The course should help you acquire qualifications in a field, in which you wish to work or in which you have been working without the required qualification.

You can apply for the allowance providing that:

• You are not a citizen of the Slovak Republic or of any other EU member state;
• You have legal residence in the Slovak Republic;
• The completion of an educational/retraining course will help you find employment;
• You can speak Slovak on a level that would enable you to do the course and benefit from it;
• The completion of a Slovak language course will help you integrate into the labour market in Slovakia.

The financial contribution from the MIC IOM will enable you to attend, for example, language courses, computer courses, management courses, professional skills courses, etc. The MIC staff will gladly assist you with finding a suitable course.

The Migration Information Centre also offers job counselling to help you with:

If you wish to apply for this funding or wish to find out more, contact us by phone or send us the attached application by post at the above address. MIC will arrange a personal consultation in order to gather all the necessary information and offer advice regarding your interest and motivation to complete the chosen course. Subsequently, your application will proceed to the decision-making process. The selection committee is composed of a team of MIC experts and reviews all the applications individually. Please note that there is no legal entitlement to this funding.

Applications for educational or requalification courses are accepted continuously.