NFP Tailor-Made Training

11 May 2012

The NFP Tailor-Made Training programme (TMT) specifically aims to improve the overall functioning of organisations by training selected groups of employees. A Tailor-Made Training is designed to meet the specific needs of the requesting organisation. A Tailor-Made Training course has a maximum budget of € 200,000.

Who can participate?

The TMT programme is open to a broad range of organisations in the 61 NFP countries, from educational institutions, research institutes and ministries to NGOs and Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs).

What type of activities can be conducted?

A Tailor-Made Training is a group training. The programme does not support, for example, seminar attendances and conference visits. To ensure cost efficiency and educational effectively, groups must consist of at least six persons. The maximum size of a group is approximately 20 persons.

Training location and duration

A Tailor-Made Training may take place in the Netherlands, in your own country, in a neighbouring country, or in a combination of these locations. Preference is given to training courses that are partially or entirely conducted in your own country or region.

A Tailor-Made Training must be completed and reported within 12 months after the grant has been awarded.

How to submit a training request

If your organisation is interested in a Tailor-Made Training you can submit a training outline by email to the Netherlands embassy or consulate in your country.

What to submit

Please submit your Tailor-Made Training outline together with a declaration of acceptance signed by the responsible legal representative of your organisation.

Download the training outline format (157 kB) - updated 13 March 2012

Download the declaration of acceptance (40 kB)

When to submit

Your outline must reach Nuffic before one of Nuffic's three deadlines. Ask the embassy or consulate what their internal deadline is. If you miss a deadline, your outline is not automatically transferred to the next deadline so you must re-submit it to your embassy or consulate.

There are three Nuffic deadlines:

1 April 2012 (expired)
1 August 2012
1 December 2012

Selection process

The embassy or consulate completes its part of your outline and then forwards it to Nuffic for further selection.

After the deadline, an internal selection committee assesses all outlines against the capacities and needs of the organisations. The committee also looks at feasibility, relevance and linkages with other Dutch government-funded activities. This leads to a ranking of trainings that will be funded.

Download a sample of the internal committee's assessment form (22 kB)

The process of matching training demand and supply

The process of matching training demand and supply depends on the size of the training budget:

Training budgets up to € 50,000

If your proposed training budget is below € 50,000 there are two options:

1. A selected outline: Nuffic directly appoints a Dutch training provider, who has to submit a training proposal. The proposal will be assessed by Nuffic and your organisation.
2. A selected and approved proposal, developed together with a Dutch provider: the training can start immediately.
Training budgets between € 50,000 and € 200,000: Nuffic will publish your training outline as a subsidy Call for tenders.

Interested Dutch providers can submit a bid, either on their own or as the lead partner of a consortium. There are no restrictions on the country of origin of consortium members, but they must meet the same eligibility criteria as the lead organisation.

The bids will be assessed by a Tender Evaluation Committee (TEC) consisting of a representative of the requesting organisation, a Nuffic representative and an independent chairperson who is an expert in the subject of the proposed training. The TEC recommends the most qualified applicant after which Nuffic awards the grant to the winning bidder.