At Code Labs Academy, we understand the importance of accessible education.
That’s why our courses can be funded with several German funding programs such as the Bildungsgutschein, Qualifizierungschancengesetz, and more.
Our funding options eliminate financial barriers, allowing you to advance your tech career and focus entirely on your education and career progression without worrying about the cost.
Explore Funding Options
Germany: start here, all nine routes ranked
One page that puts every German route in order of how reliably it pays, from the Bildungsgutschein that can cover the whole fee down to the regional vouchers that are really discounts, plus what to stop googling.
Bildungsgutschein
The Bildungsgutschein (education voucher) is issued by the employment agency or job centre and enables participation in subsidised further education or retraining. It covers the costs for the courses and, if applicable, for examinations, travel costs and necessary learning materials.
Qualifizierungschancengesetz
This law offers employees the opportunity to undertake further training during their working life. The funding includes both the assumption of further training costs and allowances on wages during further training. The Federal Employment Agency is responsible for the implementation.
Qualifizierungsgeld
The Qualifizierungsgeld supports employees who participate in further training or qualification measures. It provides financial assistance to cover training costs and helps maintain income levels during the period of qualification, promoting workforce skill development and employability.
WeGebAU
The WebGebAU (Weiterbildung Geringqualifizierter und beschäftigter älterer Arbeitnehmer in Unternehmen) programme supports the further training of low-skilled and older employees in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The costs are partially or fully covered by the Federal Employment Agency.
KOMPASS program
The ESF Plus programme KOMPASS (Compact help for solo self-employed persons) provides financial support for specially chosen measures of ongoing education and training. The goal of the program is encouragement of entrepreneurship, sustainable and high-quality work, and change adaptation.
Short-time work (Kurzarbeit) and qualification
If during periods of short-time working companies provide their employees with further training - the Federal Employment Agency will support the company with financial assistance under certain conditions.
Funding programs of the federal states
In addition to state funding for your further training, advanced training or retraining, depending on the federal state, there are numerous funding programmes for in-company training and you can apply for specific further training cheques or bonuses in the individual federal states.
Werbungskosten: deduct your bootcamp from your taxes
With no voucher and no employer budget, job-related further training stays deductible in Germany without an upper limit. Roughly 14% to 45% of what you spend comes back through your tax return.
Employer-funded training
Most companies already hold a training budget: here is the business case in your manager's language, plus the quote and invoice your finance team will ask for.
Austria: three routes that pay for three different things
The AMS can cover the fee, the tax deduction lowers what it finally costs you, and the allowance that replaced Bildungskarenz pays you rather than the invoice. Which applies, how they combine, and what to stop searching for.
AMS course cost funding (Austria)
In Austria the AMS can cover up to 100% of the course fee plus a living-cost allowance while you train, as long as your advisor approves the course before you enrol.
Section 127 educational assistance (United States)
US employers can put up to $5,250 a year toward your tuition entirely tax-free, and the law places no accreditation requirement on the school.
Canada: there is no national route, start with your province
Employer training funding in Canada is provincial, so the first question is which province you work in. Alberta, Nova Scotia and Manitoba each have a programme we have assessed, and they work very differently from one another.
Alberta: online training counts as taking place in Alberta
The Canada-Alberta Productivity Grant reimburses an employer 50% of your course up to $5,000, or 75% up to $10,000 if you are a new hire who has been out of work 30 days or more. The guidelines set no rule about where the provider is.
Nova Scotia: online learning is an accepted method
WIPSI funds up to 75% of eligible costs and sets no rule about where the trainer is based. It runs on two application windows a year and the department scores the proposals, so the work is planning backwards from the next window.
Manitoba: the Job Grant is gone, BUMP replaced it
The Building Up Manitoba Program covers 50% of eligible training cost, up to $10,000 per participant, for employers under 500 staff. Its provider criteria turn on what kind of organisation the trainer is, not where it sits, and intake is continuous.
Employer-funded training (tax-free in Germany)
Under §3 Nr. 19 EStG your employer can pay your whole course tax-free for you and deduct it as a business expense: no application, no accreditation test.
Austria: deduct your retraining from your taxes
Austrian taxpayers can write off course fees as Werbungskosten through the Arbeitnehmerveranlagung and get 20% to 55% back, foreign online courses included.
Switzerland: deduct your course fees
Job-oriented further training is deductible from taxable income (federal cap around CHF 12,000–13,000 a year); cantonal rules vary, and any provider counts.
France: deduct your tuition as frais réels
Opt for frais réels instead of the 10% standard allowance and recover 11% to 45% of what you paid. No Qualiopi needed, because this is a tax deduction rather than a funding scheme.
Bildungsscheck NRW
Living in North Rhine-Westphalia on up to €50,000 taxable income? Claim 50% of the course fee, capped at €500. Apply online before you book.
QualiScheck Rhineland-Palatinate
Work or live in Rhineland-Palatinate? 60% of course and exam fees up to €1,500 a year, with no income cap. Not open to the self-employed or civil servants.
Bundeswehr: fund your bootcamp with the BFD
Leaving the armed forces? Your Berufsförderungsdienst entitlement (roughly €5,000 to €21,000+ depending on years served) can cover a full tech bootcamp, subject to your adviser's approval.
France: retrain on unemployment benefit after resigning
The démission-reconversion route lets you quit to retrain and still draw ARE for around two years. It covers living costs, not tuition, and the commission judges your project, not your school.
UK: start with the free option, then the four routes ranked
If you are in England and eligible for a Skills Bootcamp, take it: it is free and this page says so first. For everyone the scheme leaves out, the UK routes are ranked by who actually pays, plus what to stop searching for.
UK: get your employer to pay
Work-related training paid by your employer is tax-free for you and deductible for them, with no approved-provider list, unlike Skills Bootcamps or the Lifelong Learning Entitlement.
Ireland: employer-paid course fees, tax-free
Revenue treats employer-paid fees for role-relevant training as exempt from benefit-in-kind, with no approved-college requirement: the cleanest Irish route to a funded bootcamp.
Ireland: credit union and bank education loans
Ireland has no state student loan, but credit unions lend for any course at around 7.6% APR with no accreditation gate. Worth pricing against our interest-free instalments first.
Netherlands: employer-paid training, tax-free
The gerichte vrijstelling in the werkkostenregeling lets a Dutch employer cover 100% of your course tax-free, career switches included, with no provider accreditation required.
Belgium (Flanders): keep your benefit while you retrain full time
VDAB can release you from job-search obligations for a training it does not organise or recognise, including a course you pay for yourself. No provider approval needed. It protects your income, not the fee.
Belgium: claim up to EUR 375 back under PC 200
Employed under Joint Committee 200? The Cevora/Cefora training premium refunds up to EUR 375 on a self-paid course. Our live online classes qualify; self-paced e-learning does not.
Luxembourg: the State refunds your employer 15%
Luxembourg companies get 15% of their annual training investment back from the State, and external and e-learning provider invoices explicitly count. No provider accreditation required.
Luxembourg: paid time to study, not paid tuition
Individual training leave gives you up to 20 paid days every two years and 80 across a career, and cross-border commuters qualify with no residence condition. It replaces income while you study: the course fee stays with you, and it does not combine with the employer cofinancement.
Netherlands: turn your severance into a career change
Dismissed? Your transitievergoeding, up to EUR 102,000 in 2026, is meant for exactly this, and it reaches the school untaxed if the offset is agreed in writing before you sign.
Sweden: the money and the time are two different laws
The benefit paying 80% of your salary is scoped to Swedish education, while the study-leave right covers a course with us and pays nothing. What works instead, and the one workplace fact that decides the tax.
Sweden: employer-paid training, tax-free when it fits
Swedish employers can pay for your course, and it is a tax-free benefit when it relates to your work or forms part of a redundancy package. An unrelated career switch is taxable, and we say so.
Denmark: pay for your bootcamp from pre-tax salary
Ligningslovens § 31 makes employer-paid education tax-free, and Danish law does not require it to relate to your current job. A bruttolonsordning cuts the real cost by roughly 35% to 52%.
Finland: which route applies depends on your job, and the clock
Aikuiskoulutustuki is gone, so what is left runs through your employer or your redundancy. The three routes ranked, plus the 60-day deadline that two of them are lost by missing rather than by being refused.
Finland: your employer can cover the whole fee, tax-free
TVL 69 b makes employer-paid training tax-free with no euro cap and no accreditation requirement. The catch is honest: it must serve the employer, so it is a reskilling route, not a fund-my-exit one.
Norway: employer-paid education, tax-free for you
Skatteloven § 5-15 makes it tax-free and fully deductible for the company, with no cap on teaching costs, as long as the skills are useful in your current or future job there.
Norway: write retraining into your severance package
Being laid off? Up to about NOK 204,800 of retraining can go into the sluttavtale tax-free, more than a full bootcamp. It has to be agreed in writing before you sign, and a cash lump sum instead is taxable salary.
Spain: start here, five routes ranked
One page that puts the Spanish routes in order of who actually pays: your employer, the autonomo deduction, keeping your unemployment benefit while you study, the Madrid cheque, and borrowing last. Plus what to stop searching for.
Spain: employer-paid training is tax-free for you
Art. 42.2 LIRPF keeps job-related training out of remuneración en especie, with no cap and no accreditation. The exemption is conditional on the training relating to your role, and we say where the line sits.
Spain: autónomos deduct the whole fee, no cap
In estimación directa your bootcamp is a 100% deductible business expense, worth roughly 19% to 47% back. Not available under módulos, and Hacienda can ask you to prove the link to your activity.
Spain: keep your paro while you retrain full-time
You can study full-time and keep drawing unemployment benefit. It pays your living costs and never the tuition, and you still have to stay available for work and accept assigned training.
Italy: partita IVA deducts up to EUR 10,000 a year
Art. 54-septies TUIR makes training fully deductible up to EUR 10,000, foreign and online courses expressly included. Excluded under the regime forfettario, and inerenza to your current activity is what gets tested.
US: getting your employer to pay, beyond Section 127
Many US employers can pay us directly as an ordinary vendor. The real gate is their own policy, so this page tells you which words to look for before you get your hopes up.
Japan: your employer's own 自己啓発支援 budget
No regulator, no designated-course list, no nationality test. But a CLA course cannot be topped up with 人材開発支援助成金, so the 稟議 has to stand on its own. Japanese proposal pack included.
Korea: employer or 사내근로복지기금 sponsorship
Payments from a 사내근로복지기금 are excluded from 근로소득 outright and no Korean accreditation is needed. There is no state refund either, so the case is made on what a domestic course cannot offer.
Korea: deductible for the company, taxable for you if it is a career change
An employer can book a Code Labs Academy course as deductible training cost with no accreditation test. Whether it is tax-free for you turns on job-relatedness: upskilling in your current field is clean, changing fields is the textbook taxable case.
Switzerland: get your employer to fund it
Swiss firms can fund training from any provider worldwide, tax-free to you. Here is the business case, the Weiterbildungsvereinbarung, and what a repayment clause normally looks like.
Brandenburg: Bildungsscheck pays 60% of your course
Work or live in Brandenburg? The 2026 directive covers 60% of course fees with no upper cap. What the ILB needs from you, and the one question to ask them before you enrol.
Schleswig-Holstein: Weiterbildungsbonus, with your employer
60% up to EUR 5,000, but only through an SH-based employer who co-funds 40%. How to tell in thirty seconds whether this route is open to you.
UK: pay monthly, or borrow at a fixed rate
There is no public bootcamp funding in the UK. Interest-free instalments up to 60 payments, the upfront discount, employer funding, and what to check before taking a training loan.
Brussels: Prime Formation for SMEs and directors
Brussels companies and self-employed directors can recover 40 to 80% of the course, up to about EUR 4,000. No provider accreditation needed, but you must apply before you start.
Sweden: take study leave and keep your job
Swedish law gives you the right to take leave to study, including an online bootcamp abroad, with your job protected. The leave is unpaid, so here is how to pay for the course.
Finland: made redundant? Your employer must fund retraining
Finnish law obliges employers with 30 or more staff to pay for employment-promoting training after five years of service. You can ask for that budget to be spent on a Code Labs Academy course.
Portugal: pay for your course with training credit
Portugal has no public scheme that reaches us, so this is borrowing. Our interest-free instalments cost less than any loan, and here is how to compare bank offers if you still need one.
Malta: Jobsplus funds live online training by a foreign provider
Investing in Skills pays a set unit cost per trainee per hour rather than a share of the invoice, so realistically it is about EUR 780 per employee. The rules name non-local providers explicitly. Training has to finish by 30 June 2027.
Madrid: up to EUR 1,500 towards a course you choose
Under 30, unemployed and living in Madrid? The Cheque Formacion can reimburse up to EUR 1,500, and its rules admit EU providers and online delivery in writing. The decision rests with your oficina de empleo.
South Tyrol: 80% of your course fees, up to EUR 3,000 a year
Live in the province and work for a private employer there, or are registered unemployed? Bolzano funds courses held abroad and online. Apply before the course starts and before you pay anything, or the claim is lost.
Spain: study loans, and why the school being German does not matter
No Spanish bank needs to approve your school, because the loan is to you. What actually works, what to ask before you sign, and why our interest-free instalments cost less than any of it.
Finland, dismissed at 55 or over: start with the cash
Extended change security has two halves. Muutosturvaraha is one month's pay in cash with no strings, so it can pay for a course. The training half is procured by your employment area, and the cap is absolute.
Finland: aikuiskoulutustuki is gone, here is what is left
The adult education allowance was abolished and the last window closed on 31 March 2026. No individual benefit replaced it. The dates, so you can be certain, and the Finnish routes that still work.
France: your CPF will not pay for a CLA bootcamp, here is what will
CPF needs a French registration, Qualiopi and an RNCP listing, and there is no EU passporting. The honest map instead: deducting real training costs, resignation-retraining, and employer funding.
Netherlands: the STAP budget is gone, here is what replaced it
STAP ended on 1 January 2024 and no individual scheme replaced it. The routes that do work in 2026: the employer training budget under the WKR, your transitievergoeding, and a payment plan.
Sweden: CSN pays 80% of your salary to retrain, on Swedish courses
Omstallningsstudiestod is one of the best retraining benefits in Europe, and it does not cover a course from us. The 2026 conditions, how to use it well, and what protects your job if you study with us instead.
France: AIF, and why it cannot pay for a course with us
France Travail's individual training aid is a last-resort grant for jobseekers. It cannot reach us: Kairos needs a French registration, and the online-course rule needs Qualiopi. What is left if you are out of work.
Austria: Bildungskarenz is gone, here is the successor
Weiterbildungszeit pays EUR 40.40 to 67.94 a day while you study, and needs no provider accreditation. It replaces your income, not the course fee, and your employer has to agree to the leave.
England: Skills Bootcamps are free, and worth taking
If you are 19 or over, live in England and can get a place in your subject, take it. We are not a contracted provider. Here is how to find one, and what to do if the scheme does not reach you.
Scotland: ITA funding is closed, here is what is left
Individual Training Accounts were axed in the 2024/25 Scottish budget and nothing replaced them. Why your searches keep hitting a 404, and the routes that still work from Scotland.
Greece: take 30% of the fee off your taxable income
Pay by card or bank transfer and 30% of education spending comes off your taxable income, up to a EUR 5,000 deduction a year. The relief follows your payment, not the school's registration, plus the LAEK employer route.
Croatia: your employer gets the cost back twice
A Croatian employer can deduct your course in full and then cut its profit-tax base again under the state-aid education law, by up to 70 to 80% for an SME. Courses abroad are expressly eligible.
Romania: fully deductible, and untaxed for you
Employer-paid training is deductible with no cap under art. 25 of the Fiscal Code and is not taxed as salary under art. 76(4)(p). One question decides it: whether your employer pays profit tax or the 1% microenterprise tax on revenue.
Bulgaria: deductible, but only with the right agreement
A Bulgarian employer can treat your course as a tax-recognised business expense at 10% corporate tax, provided a training agreement under art. 234 of the Kodeks na truda is signed before the invoice is paid. Those agreements usually ask you to stay for an agreed period.
Slovenia: deductible for them, not a benefit in kind for you
An employer can deduct your course against 22% corporate tax, and it is not taxed as a fringe benefit provided the business connection is documented. The default is taxable, and the paperwork is what moves it. Pay it yourself and there is no relief at all.
Singapore: a personal loan, not an education loan
SkillsFuture and the banks' education loans are both gated on approved institutions, so neither can pay for a course with us. A plain unsecured personal loan can, because the cash is credited to you. It is borrowing, so compare the EIR rather than the flat rate.
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1. Explore Funded Programs
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2. Apply for Funding
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3. Enroll in a Bootcamp
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