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Interpreting services; application for funding for expenses in connection with the counseling activities of women's shelters and other facilities
The Free State of Bavaria provides grants towards the costs of language and sign language interpreting services. In addition, the Free State of Bavaria provides grants towards the costs of further training measures.
Forms
Forms
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Antrag auf Gewährung einer staatlichen Zuwendung - Förderprogramm: Staatliche Förderung von Ausgaben für Dolmetscherdienste zur Sprachmittlung im Rahmen der Beratungstätigkeit der Frauenhäuser und Notrufe
This form can be submitted electronically (e.g. via a secure contact form using your user account with login via the electronic ID function or the ELSTER certificate) or handwritten and signed in paper form to the responsible authority.
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Verwendungsnachweis über staatliche Zuwendungen - Förderprogramm: Staatliche Förderung von Ausgaben für Dolmetscherdienste zur Sprachmittlung im Rahmen der Beratungstätigkeit der Frauenhäuser und Notrufe
This form can be submitted electronically (e.g. via a secure contact form using your user account with login via the electronic ID function or the ELSTER certificate) or handwritten and signed in paper form to the responsible authority.
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Auszahlungsantrag - Förderprogramm: Staatliche Förderung von Ausgaben für Dolmetscherdienste zur Sprachmittlung im Rahmen der Beratungstätigkeit der Frauenhäuser und Notrufe
This form can be submitted electronically (e.g. via a secure contact form using your user account with login via the electronic ID function or the ELSTER certificate) or handwritten and signed in paper form to the responsible authority.
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Procedure details
Description
Purpose
Government grants are intended to make it easier for women with a migration background and women with speech and hearing impairments to access the support system when they are affected by violence. In addition, counseling specialists are to expand their skills in designing a counseling setting with interpreters through further training measures.
Object
The object of the funding is expenditure on language and sign language interpreting services and training measures incurred in connection with counseling and support for women affected by violence with a migration background or with speech and hearing impairments. The language mediation can also take place via video or telephone conference.
Eligible costs
Eligible costs are the hourly remuneration incurred for the interpreting service itself and compensation for any travel time of the interpreter. Eligible costs also include the costs of providing a telephone interpreting service (including one-off set-up costs), expenses for a webcam to the extent necessary and expenses for training measures to expand skills for organizing a consultation setting with interpreters.
Type and amount
The funding is granted as a subsidy.
The type of grant is project funding.
The state grant is awarded as part of project funding as partial funding with a maximum limit.
Requirements
Recipients of funding are the providers of state-funded women's shelters, specialist advice centers (emergency calls), intervention centers and second-stage projects that are members of an umbrella organization of non-statutory welfare services.
The language and sign language interpreting services must be provided in connection with the counseling and support of women affected by violence within the meaning of the tasks according to the guideline for the funding of women's shelters, specialist counseling centers (emergency calls) and intervention centers in Bavaria dated 24.02.2022 or in the currently valid version; this also includes counseling and support for women affected by violence in state-funded second-stage projects.
The training measure must aim to train the counseling specialist to design a counseling setting with interpreters (e.g. also for telephone or video interpreting).
The grant recipient must contribute ten percent of the eligible expenditure.
A tabular summary of the assignment must be drawn up with the following information:
- Number of clients for whom language mediation or sign language interpretation was provided,
- Frequency of the languages requested,
- Qualifications of the interpreters,
- Number of interpreting hours, broken down into pure interpreting services (interpreting time) and travel time.
Exclusion criteria:
Applications for funding of less than 200 euros cannot be considered for administrative reasons.
Required documents
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Required document/s
No documents are required.
Proceedings
Complete applications for funding must be submitted to the Government of Middle Franconia no later than one month before the start of the funding period using the application form provided for this purpose. The application must be based on a realistic estimate of requirements, taking into account the use of interpreting services in previous years. The project start date (start of the approval period) can be 01.01., 01.04. or 01.07. of the respective financial year. The approval period ends on December 31 of the respective financial year. Retroactive funding is not possible.
Fees
There are no costs.
Deadlines
The application period is 1 month(s). The funding application must be submitted in writing no later than one month before the start of the approval period.
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Status: 23.01.2026
Editorially responsible for prodecure description: Bayerisches Staatsministerium für Familie, Arbeit und Soziales
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