Ordinance
on Vocational and Professional Education and Training
(Vocational and Professional Education and Training Ordinance, VPETO)

(Art. 4 and 54 VPETA)²⁶

¹ Fed­er­al sub­sidies for pro­jects that seek to de­vel­op the VPET sys­tem in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 54 VPETA shall cov­er no more than 60 per cent of the total cor­res­pond­ing ex­pendit­ure. In jus­ti­fi­able cases, this threshold may be ex­ten­ded to a max­im­um of 80 per cent.

² Fed­er­al sub­sidies shall be gran­ted as fol­lows:

a.

for stud­ies and pi­lot pro­jects: on the basis of how well they can meas­ure the feas­ib­il­ity and ef­fect­ive­ness of new edu­ca­tion meas­ures in the field or how well they can im­ple­ment re­forms;

b.

for the cre­ation of new more ef­fi­cient struc­tures: on the basis of wheth­er vari­ous part­ners are will­ing to join an in­de­pend­ent body re­spons­ible for new VPET-re­lated fields.

³ Pro­jects shall be sub­sid­ised for a peri­od not ex­ceed­ing four years. This fund­ing may be ex­ten­ded for a max­im­um of one more year.