Logo Bayernportal
Home > Procedures

Good care; applying for funding

The Free State of Bavaria grants subsidies to local authorities to strengthen needs-based and needs-oriented care in the local social environment and for the creation, expansion and operation of coordination centers.

Responsible for you

Bayerisches Landesamt für Pflege

Bayerisches Landesamt für Pflege

Street address

Mildred-Scheel-Straße 4
92224 Amberg

Postal address

Mildred-Scheel-Straße 4

92224 Amberg

Mehr zur Behörde

Procedure details

Purpose

The purpose of the grant is to ensure long-term care for individuals in their familiar surroundings in the municipalities, to maintain independence and to enable participation.

Object

The Free State of Bavaria supports projects that serve to design and implement measures in the local social environment and benefit people in need of care within the meaning of the Eleventh Book of the German Social Code (SGB XI), people at risk of needing care and their relatives in order to strengthen home care. Projects for networking care services can also be funded.

Recipients of funding

Beneficiaries are local authorities.

Eligible costs

Necessary personnel and non-investment-related material expenses are eligible for funding. Personnel expenses are eligible for funding up to salary group A11 or a comparable salary group for employees.

Funding period

The funding period for a project is up to three years.

Amount of the grant

  • For financially weak municipalities with 50 or more recipients of long-term care insurance per 1,000 inhabitants, the grant amounts to up to 90% of the eligible expenditure,
  • for municipalities with 50 or more recipients of long-term care insurance per 1,000 inhabitants, the grant amounts to up to 80% of the eligible expenditure and
  • for municipalities with fewer than 50 recipients of long-term care insurance per 1,000 inhabitants, the grant amounts to up to 70% of the eligible expenditure.
  • For municipalities that are not financially weak, the funding rate is reduced by 10% from the fourth year after approval is granted.

Municipalities are considered financially weak if their financial strength in the previous year of application was less than 85% of the average municipality size class.

Funding requirements

  • a detailed cost and financing plan
  • a project description with a technical concept that shows
    • the geographical area covered by the project and how many people are involved
    • what the needs situation is like,
    • how an exchange will take place at (supra-)regional level,
    • how the active participation of people in need of care and people at risk of needing care in the local area is achieved in the design and planning of the services,
    • how coordination with other stakeholders in the local community and the sustainability of the planned services are ensured,
    • how networking with the local community is established with the aim of bringing about any necessary structural changes,
    • how existing care structures, where necessary, are flanked in such a way that a focus on care activities is possible,
    • how existing structures are integrated in such a way that no duplicate structures are created and
    • how the success of the measures implemented can be evaluated and their sustainability ensured.
  • the eligible expenditure for the measures must amount to at least EUR 5,000 (de minimis limit).

Projects that have already begun are excluded from funding.

  • The following documents must be submitted:
    • Application form
    • Cost and financing plan
    • Project description with overall concept

The application for funding must be signed and submitted to the Bavarian State Office for Nursing.

Decisions on the applications received by March 1 and September 1 will be made after these deadlines at our discretion and within the limits of the available budget.

When selecting projects, they are prioritized according to the following points

  • Technicality of the planned concepts,
  • Coherence of the overall concept and its implementation,
  • the proportion of people in need of care in relation to the population of the municipality submitting the application
  • and only then the urgency of the project.

For follow-up applications, it is sufficient to state the changes compared to the previous application when submitting the application.

none

Applications must be submitted by March 1 or September 1, but at least six months before the end of the project to be continued.

approx. 3 months

It should be noted that there is no entitlement to funding under grant law.

Administrative court action

Status: 05.12.2024
Editorially responsible for prodecure description: Bayerisches Staatsministerium für Gesundheit, Pflege und Prävention
Contains machine translated content. Show the original content