Employment promotion measures

• Support for holding professional internships lasting 6 months—which cannot be extended—or 12 months for people with disabilities
  

• Natural persons or non-governmental legal persons with or without profit motives that meet the legal requirements, such as having their tax and social security affairs in order, and not having been convicted of a serious or very serious labor infringement in the past two years
• Companies undergoing recovery (insolvency or pre-insolvency) can also aply

• Young people (= 35 years) and other unemployed individuals registered with the Employment and Professional Training Institute (Instituto do Emprego e Formação Profissional, “IEFP”), holding a level 4 or 5 qualification according to the National Qualifications Framework ("NQF")
  

• In two installments (three for individuals with disabilities)

• IEFP to announce annual application period
• Applications are open from October 3, 2024, until 6:00 p.m. on April 28, 2025
  

• Financial support for entering full-time, open-ended employment contracts
  

• Natural persons or non-governmental legal persons with or without profit motives that meet the legal requirements, such as having their tax and social security affairs in order, and not having been convicted of a serious or very serious labor infringement in the past two years
• Companies undergoing recovery (insolvency or pre-insolvency) can also apply
  

• Unemployed individuals registered with the IEFP for at least three months
  

• Having a job listing on the IEFP portal, indicating application for this measure
• Not having any collective redundancies or redundancies due to elimination of the work post or to non-adaptation in the three months before submitting the application
• Having net job creation
• Maintaining the employment level achieved through the support for at least 24 months from the first month of the supported contract
• Providing professional training during the support period

• 12 times the IAS (in 2024: €6,111.12)
• Possible 5% increase in certain situations
• Up to four cumulative increases

Financial support payment

• In three installments

• IEFP to establish and announce application periods

• Support for professional internships lasting 6 months—which cannot be extended—or 12 months for individuals with disabilities
  

• Natural persons or non-governmental legal persons with or without profit motives that meet the legal requirements, such as having their tax and social security affairs in order, and not having been convicted of a serious or very serious labor infringement in the past two years
• Companies undergoing recovery (insolvency or pre-insolvency) can also apply
  

• Young unemployed individuals registered with the IEFP or who have permanently emigrated for at least 12 months, aged = 35 years, with a level 6 or higher qualification according to the NQF (bachelor’s degree)
  

• Monthly internship grant (up to 2.6 times the IAS; in 2024: €1,324.08)
• Meal or food allowance
• Occupational accident insurance
• Transportation
  

• 65% internship copayment (80% in certain situations)
• Meal or food allowance
• Occupational accident insurance
• Transportation

• IEFP to announce annual application period
• Applications are open from October 3, 2024, until 6:00 p.m. on April 28, 2025

• Support for full-time, open-ended contracts, with an entry salary not lower than that of a graduate in the general career of senior technician in the Public Administration (in 2024: €1,385.98)
  

• Natural persons or non-governmental legal persons with or without profit motives that meet the legal requirements, such as having their tax and social security affairs in order, and not having been convicted of a serious or very serious labor infringement in the past two years
• Companies under recovery (insolvency or pre-insolvency) can also apply
  

• Young unemployed individuals registered with the IEFP or who have permanently emigrated for at least 12 months, aged = 35 years, with a level 6, 7 or 8 qualification according to the NQF (bachelor’s, master’s or doctorate)
  

• Having a job listing on the IEFP portal, indicating application for this measure
• Not having collective redundancies or redundancies due to elimination of the work post or to non-adaptation in the three months before submitting the application
• Having net job creation
• Maintaining the employment level achieved through the support for at least 24 months from the first month of the supported contract
• Providing professional training during the support period
  

• 18 times the IAS (in 2024: €9,166.68)
• Possible 35% increase in certain situations
• Up to four cumulative increases
  

• In three installments
  

• IEFP to establish and announce the application periods