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The Ministries of Finance, Development and Investment, Education and Religion, Labor and Social Affairs and Digital Government announce a new program with a total budget of 112 million euros for the support of young people, students and students in the context of e-learning due to the pandemic.
Leveraging the wealth of e-learning during the COVID-19 health crisis, as part of strategic planning for a further digital transformation of education, enhancing the digital skills of the educational community, and empowering our vulnerable fellow citizens, the new program is part of Recovery.
It involves the delivery of a check (voucher) worth 200 euros for each student, student and pupil, which is framed within specific social and income criteria, for the purchase of a tablet, laptop or computer. desktop for the needs of distance education.
It should be noted that, in terms of the implementation schedule, the program is one of the first projects at European level to use the funds from the Recovery Fund. The estimated number of beneficiaries amounts to approximately 325,000 families with 560,000 young people between the ages of 4 and 24.
The beneficiaries
The beneficiaries will be all families with an equivalent family income of up to 6,000 euros, that is, all families benefiting from the OPEC child allowance in the first income category.
Equivalent family income is defined based on annual family income, the number of children per family, and whether a family is single parent or not.
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