FUNDAE Training Credit: Improve Your Team’s English Without Extra Cost (Use It Before 31 December)

Read here in Spanish: FORMACIÓN BONIFICADA FUNDAE

If your company pays Spanish Social Security, you almost certainly have money set aside for staff training. Many companies never use it. It expires on 31 December, so if you want to use it this year, now is the time to act.

What is FUNDAE?

FUNDAE (Fundación Estatal para la Formación en el Empleo) is the state body that manages training for workers in Spain. Every year, each company builds up a training credit (crédito formativo) through its Social Security contributions. You can spend that credit on approved training, and the cost is deducted from your Social Security payments (formación bonificada).

In plain terms: your staff get trained, and you recover most or all of the cost.

How we work with FUNDAE

We work with a specialist company that handles the FUNDAE side for us, and we’ve been delivering funding training this way for years. We teach, they manage the administration, and your company doesn’t have to deal with the bureaucracy.

The pros

Little or no cost to your company. Depending on company size and group size, the credit can cover most or all of the training.
Less paperwork for you. Registration, communication with FUNDAE and the documentation are handled by us and our partner. You just tell us who needs training and the details.
Expertise. After several years we know what works: which courses to plan, how to structure them and, most importantly, how to keep everything compliant.
Real results. Your staff improve their English, which means better emails, calls and meetings, and better relationships with international clients.
Flexible formats. See below.

The cons

Co-financing. Or individual classes or groups of only 2, companies have to contribute a percentage of the cost (small companies usually don’t).
Rules. There are requirements around attendance and compliance. This is exactly why having an experienced provider helps.
Use it or lose it. Unused credit does not roll over to next year except in specific cases*.

Not just regular classes

FUNDAE training doesn’t have to mean a weekly group class all year or trimestre. We also offer one-off, targeted training for specific needs, for example:

Presentations in English
Meetings and everyday business communication
Negotiation skills
Sales English and client calls
Urgent needs: someone who has to speak English as soon as possible for a new role, a trip or an important client

We can build the training around your specific needs.

Use it before the end of the year

The training credit is annual. If it isn’t used by 31 December 2026, it’s gone (except in specific cases explained below)*.

*According to FUNDAE's current rules, companies with fewer than 50 employees can carry over unused training credit for up to two following years, but they must request this in advance.

The rules

Fewer than 50 employees: can reserve unused credit and carry it forward for the next one or two years.
50 or more employees: cannot carry it over; unused credit normally expires at the end of the year.
Deadline: the company must select the accumulation option in the FUNDAE online application by 30 June of the year in which the credit is available.
It is not automatic. If the company misses the deadline, it cannot request accumulation later in the year.
Source: https://www.fundae.es/atencionusuario/faq

Find out how much you have

Most companies don’t know how much credit they have available. We can help you find out and show you how to use it on English training that actually benefits your team.

Contact us to find out your amount and how we can help. The sooner you get in touch, the better, with the year-end deadline approaching.

[email protected] 622567969