03.02.2021

The Agency for People with Disabilities announces a competition UNDER A NATIONAL EMPLOYMENT PROGRAM FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES, according to Art. 44, para. 1 of the Law on People with Disabilities

            This program aims to encourage and assist employers from a normal working environment to create employment conditions for people with permanent disabilities, including the fulfillment of quota obligations; it is aimed at people with permanent disabilities, as employment in a normal work environment leads to the fastest socialization of people with permanent disabilities.

This program provides funding for the following areas of action, tentatively called components:

1. Ensuring access to existing or created new jobs for people with permanent disabilities of working age.
2. Adaptation of existing jobs for people with permanent disabilities of working age.
3. Equipping new workplaces for people with permanent disabilities of working age, corresponding to the nature of their illness.
4. Qualification and retraining, respectively training for professional and professional development.

            The maximum amount of subsidy by component is as follows:

            Component 1 - up to BGN 10,000;

            Component 2 - up to BGN 10,000;

            Component 3 - up to BGN 10,000;

            Component 4 - up to BGN 1,000 per person with permanent disability.

            More detailed information can be found in the Methodology for financing project proposals of employers/appointing bodies under the National Employment Program for People with Disabilities, published on the website of the Agency for People with Disabilities under the heading: Projects/ programs, NEP under Art. 44, para. 1 of the Law on People with Disabilities.

The tender documentation is published on the Agency's website under the heading "Projects/programs" - NEP under Art. 44, para. 1 of the Law on People with Disabilities.

            The project proposals, together with the required documents, are submitted in a folder arranged systematically, in the order described in the table for assessment of administrative compliance / Annex 3 /, and with a cover letter in the office of the Agency for People with Disabilities in one of the following ways:

1. On the spot, in the office of the Agency for People with Disabilities, at the address: Sofia, 1233, 104-106 Sofroniy Vrachanski Str. All documents signed and scanned are uploaded on electronic media or on paper, accompanied by electronic version of the same documents. Deadline for submission of projects: 5.30 pm on 15.04.2021.
2. All documents signed and scanned shall be uploaded on electronic media by a licensed postal operator with a return receipt with a postmark or by courier, no later than the deadline for submission of projects for the competition, or on paper, accompanied by an electronic version of the same documents. Deadline for submission of projects: 5.30 pm on 15.04.2021.
3. Electronically, under the terms and conditions of the Electronic Document and Electronic Certification Services Act, or signed and scanned at the specified e-mail address of the Agency for People with Disabilities - e-mail: ahu_zaetost@mlsp.government.bg. Deadline for submission of projects: 5.30 pm on 15.04.2021.

Immediately after the submission of the project proposal, each applicant is obliged to request from the Agency for People with Disabilities an incoming number with which the project proposal is entered in the record keeping system, no later than the deadline for submission of project proposals. The received incoming number proves that the project proposal has been submitted in time.

            Contact telephones: 02 931 8095 and 02 832 9073.