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Eurydice

EACEA National Policies Platform:Eurydice

Austria

2025

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Improving financial aid for students – Annual valorisation of the limit on additional income for study grant claimants

Regulations and Legislative document

Status:

The additional income limit was increased from € 15 000 to € 16 455, on January 1, for 2024. From 2025, the limit will be adjusted annually, always on January 1, in line with inflation (valorisation). 

2025

Upcoming reforms not yet decided.

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2024

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Social Care and Nursing - training in the VET school system and in dual training

Implementation of new types of training

Status:

School projects since 2020/21; part of regular schooling starting with 2023/24

Sources:

2025

Upcoming reforms not yet decided

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2024

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Extension of Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) (Ausbau der Kinderbetreuungseinrichtungen) - current agreement

Regulation and legislative documents 

Status: Agreement concerning 2022/23-2026/27 - childcare offensive until 2030

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Structure of the chapter

This chapter provides a thematic and chronological overview of national reforms and policy developments since 2022.

The web pages that follow group reforms in the following broad thematic areas:

  • Early childhood education and care

  • General school education

  • Vocational education and training

  • Higher education

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European, Global and Intercultural Dimension in Curriculum Development

The field of adult education and training in Austria is very heterogeneous and characterised by a large number of offers and providers.