15.1 Podnoszenie kompetencji pracodawców oraz ich kadr w obszarach bezpieczeństwa i obrony cywilnej oraz adaptacyjności

Applicant types

SME, Large company, Startup, Research org, University, NGO, Public body, Other

Purpose

Training and people

R&D relevance

1 of 3

Poland eligible

Yes

Country limit

Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland

Region

małopolskie

Consortium

Optional

Readiness level (TRL)

—

Topics

• Civil defence
• Workforce training
• Security occupations
• Dual-use technology skills

Machine-classified from the call text; check eligibility at the source. 23 Oct 2026

Typed facts extracted from the source documents by Scindu's grant-data review. Each value keeps its own conditions. Unknown means unstated, not zero or unlimited.

Applicant restriction

Eligible applicants and partners include public administration; science and education institutions; healthcare institutions; business-support institutions; social organisations and religious associations; partnerships; social partners; enterprises; public-purpose enterprises; and public services. An entity without legal personality must apply through its proper parent entity.

Consortium allowed

Yes

Eligible project scope

Type B supports skills, competencies or qualifications for critical occupations important to security and defence, including dual-use technologies, through education for workers performing those occupations. The regulation lists technical and infrastructure-related occupations; umbrella projects must cover all listed categories.

Eligible project scope

Activities may be workshops, courses or employer-tailored advisory support; advice can only supplement training for that employer.

Eligible project scope

Target groups are employers/entrepreneurs and their workforce in Małopolskie, including sole proprietors without employees. Direct projects serve their own staff; umbrella projects support multiple regional employers and their staff.

Eligible project scope

A proposal is either a direct project where the employer directly supports its own workforce, or an umbrella project supporting multiple employers and their workers; the two types cannot be combined.

Eligible project scope

Training services must be provided by a provider listed in the Development Services Database (BUR) or a provider positively verified by the Academy of Fire Service.

Other condition

Official identifier FEMP.15.01-IP.02-080/26; this is Type B, critical occupations in security and defence.

Other condition

Applications run 2026-09-24 through 2026-11-19; the call page says submissions end at 15:00 on the closing date.

Other condition

Every budget item requires a cost calculation and must be reasonable and market-consistent; personnel costs must name engagement form and estimated time and be benchmarked against analogous beneficiary roles/labour-law/public-statistical rates.

Other condition

In direct projects, participants must be the applicant/partner employer’s staff, hired and working in Małopolskie; the application must describe how participant status and region will be verified.

Other condition

The 2026-10-19 clarification says staff eligibility depends on critical job duties; ordinary administrative workers are generally not eligible solely because they work for an infrastructure employer, and generic cross-cutting cybersecurity for all public employees is outside this Type B project.

Other condition

Participant eligibility is based on the employee’s position and actual duties, not the employer’s PKD code; formal education is not decisive. A new employee may be trained if they will work in the critical occupation after training.

Other condition

For project personnel budget items, the application must state engagement form/contract and estimated time; employee wage costs cannot exceed analogous beneficiary employee remuneration, labour-law amounts or public-statistics levels.

Other condition

During project delivery, the applicant must operate a project office or equivalent in Małopolskie, open Monday–Friday at least 6 hours per day with at least one employee available for participant contact.

Other condition

Projects with total project cost at or below EUR 200,000 at contract signing must use simplified cost methods: direct costs as lump sums for all project tasks and indirect costs by flat rate. Each lump sum is tied to task outputs/results; unit costs are not available in this call.

Other condition

Each trainer must have higher/vocational education or other certificates enabling delivery of the specific course, and relevant experience; relevant professional experience must be at least 2 years during the last 5 years.

Other condition

E-learning is ineligible; remote sessions are allowed only live and subject to the remote-learning service standard. Participants must attain at least 80% attendance. Trainer cannot formally assess their own learners.

Other condition

Training must identify learning outcomes and validate the participant’s acquired qualifications or competencies; the instructor and assessor must be different people.

Other condition

For training public aid, private employer contribution may include cash and/or workers’ remuneration for actual training time; participant wage costs cannot exceed the employer’s required private contribution.

Other condition

Course modules ordinarily may not exceed five consecutive days; the schedule has an eight-clock-hour daily ceiling including breaks, regular breaks of at least 15 minutes per two clock hours, and a break of at least 45 minutes when training lasts longer than six clock hours. A reasoned exception may be based on the special format, aims and teaching methods. Group training is usual and up to 20 participants is recommended, not a binding cap.

Staff restriction

People presented as the applicant/partner’s existing staffing capacity must be employed under an employment contract before application, a qualifying volunteer, or a cooperating person under the cited social-insurance law; an individual on a civil-law contract alone is not counted as that staffing capacity. This does not define a hiring ban or specific funded post.

Catalogue budget

PLN 22,410,000

Figure as listed by the provider. Whether it is the total allocation or a per-project cap is unverified unless a reviewed condition says so.

Call allocation

PLN 22,410,000

Call-wide allocation (not a per-project maximum); includes PLN 21,289,500 EFS+ and PLN 1,120,500 state budget. The managing institution may apply the current monthly contracting algorithm.

Eligible cost

Educational support costs may include trainer remuneration, training materials, catering, classroom rental and exam fees. Exam costs depend on participant-specific need.

Eligible cost

The application instructions classify coordinator/project-manager and other project management, accounting, monitoring and administration salaries as indirect costs, together with board, HR/finance/administrative/secretarial/legal support. These costs are paid through the mandatory indirect-cost flat rate, not as named grant-funded roles.

Eligible cost limit

10

Eligible direct costs above PLN 4,550,000. Rate applies to direct project costs; indirect-cost flat rate covers the complete indirect-cost catalogue.

Eligible cost limit

15

Eligible direct costs above PLN 1,740,000 through PLN 4,550,000. Rate applies to direct project costs; indirect-cost flat rate covers the complete indirect-cost catalogue.

Eligible cost limit

20

Eligible direct costs above PLN 830,000 through PLN 1,740,000. Rate applies to direct project costs; indirect-cost flat rate covers the complete indirect-cost catalogue.

Eligible cost limit

25

Eligible direct costs through PLN 830,000. Rate applies to direct project costs; indirect-cost flat rate covers the complete indirect-cost catalogue.

Funding intensity, maximum

95

EU contribution cap, not the total project financing rate; public-aid/de minimis rules can lower total support.

Funding intensity, maximum

100

Subject to public-aid/de minimis rules; where those apply, the amount may be lower.

Funding intensity, maximum

50

Applies where public aid for training is used; it is not the general call co-financing rate.

Funding intensity, maximum

70

Possible public-aid training support increase, only under the listed recipient/enterprise conditions, and subject to the call’s overall EU ceiling and other aid rules.

Ineligible cost

The service standard excludes training equipment/purchase or depreciation, participant travel or lodging, self-defence/weapons/shooting and other military/paramilitary training, and generic or cross-cutting qualification training.

Own contribution, minimum

0

Generally no applicant own-contribution floor; projects with public aid/de minimis are subject to aid-specific contribution and intensity requirements.

Project cost, minimum

PLN 50,000

Minimum total project value for direct projects; this is not a minimum grant amount.

Project cost, minimum

PLN 1,000,000

Minimum total project value for umbrella projects; this is not a minimum grant amount.

• External service provider delivers the project-funded course or training. The trainer is a service resource, not a staff employment role inferred from the budget. Providers must be BUR-listed or verified by the Academy of Fire Service; each trainer needs course-enabling higher/vocational education or relevant certificates and at least two years of relevant professional experience in the previous five years. The trainer may not formally assess their own learners.

  Other role · Service the grant can fund

  Course must produce verified qualifications or competencies and follow the service-standard delivery rules. No project staff headcount, FTE, employment duration or employee pay rate is inferred; the course service cost is budgeted subject to the call’s reasonableness, market-consistency and public-aid rules.

• The application instructions expressly classify project coordinator/manager, project administration/accounting/monitoring, HR, finance, administrative, secretarial and legal support as indirect-cost categories. They are covered by the flat rate; this packet does not assert that any particular named position must be hired or is directly fundable as a separate post.

  Project management · Budget estimate rule only

  Indirect costs are settled only with the applicable flat rate; no headcount, FTE, contract form or individual salary rate is specified for these categories.

• During delivery the applicant must maintain a project office or equivalent in Małopolskie, open during the beneficiary workday at least Monday to Friday for a minimum of six hours per day with at least one employee available for participants. This specifies availability only, not a named position or individual FTE.

  Project management · Required staff

  No employment contract type, FTE or salary amount is specified for this office-availability rule. Project costs for coordination and administration are classified as indirect and settled by flat rate.

• Annex 2: application form

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• Annex 3: application instructions

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• Clarifications for call FEMP.15.01-IP.02-080/26, 2026-10-19

  fundusze.malopolska.pl

• Annex 4: evaluation card

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• Official Małopolska call page: FEMP.15.01-IP.02-080/26, Type B

  fundusze.malopolska.pl

• Regulamin wyboru projektów, FEMP.15.01-IP.02-080/26

  fundusze.malopolska.pl

• Annex 1: selection criteria

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• Annex 11: service standard for training and courses, Type B

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Opens

24 Sept 2026

Provider

FE dla Małopolski

Source

funduszeunijne.gov.pl

Checked

24 Oct 2026

Review status

Partial review

Independent QA

No published hold

Reviewed

22 Oct 2026