Teachers with professional qualifications from the EU/EEA/Switzerland; apply for recognition

Application

The application must be submitted using the application form and enclosing the required documents.

Confirmation of receipt

You will receive confirmation of receipt of the application and the documents within one month, stating which documents are missing, if applicable.

Decision

After receipt of the complete documents, a decision will be made on the recognition of your teaching qualification - if necessary, taking into account an expert opinion from the Central Office for Foreign Education at the Standing Conference of the Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs in Bonn (ZAB) or the responsible office via the Internal Market Information System (IMI).

You will receive written notification of the recognition of your teaching qualification. Recognition may be granted on condition that significant differences compared to a Rhineland-Palatinate teaching qualification are compensated for by a compensatory measure (adaptation course or aptitude test).

Applications for recognition must be submitted to the Ministry of Education - Department 2.

The application can also be sent to the Single Point of Contact for Administrative Matters.

• Single point of contact for administrative matters

If you have acquired your teaching qualification in an EU state, an EEA state or a state with equivalent status under an agreement, this can be recognized as a qualification for an equivalent teaching position at schools in Rhineland-Palatinate if

• you are a national of a member state of the European Union (EU), another state party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area (EEA, currently Iceland, Norway, Liechtenstein) or a state treated as such by agreement (currently Switzerland),
• your certificate of professional qualification was issued by the competent authority of an EU member state, an EEA state or a state treated as such by agreement,
• your professional qualification certificate entitles you to direct access to the teaching profession in your country of origin and the job description essentially corresponds to the job description for the respective teaching profession in Rhineland-Palatinate,
• the training required to obtain the professional qualification, taking into account any relevant professional experience or other formally recognized knowledge, skills and competences, does not differ significantly from the training required in Rhineland-Palatinate for the respective teaching profession. Any significant differences identified can be compensated for by a compensatory measure.

• Application (see applications/forms),
• Tabular list of completed training courses and work experience as a teacher,
• Proof of citizenship of a member state of the European Union, an EEA state or a state treated as such by agreement,
• Proof of training within the meaning of Directive 2005/36/EC, including overviews of subjects and grades as well as proof of the duration of training, or other comparable proof of qualification,
• Proof of the course content of the completed training to obtain the teaching qualification,
• Marriage certificate or civil partnership certificate if the current name differs from the name on the training certificate or the qualification certificate,
• Certificates of the type and duration of previous teaching activities,
• a declaration as to whether and, if so, with what result, a corresponding application has been submitted, an adaptation period has been completed or an aptitude test has been taken in another country of the Federal Republic of Germany.
• The study regulations and the examination regulations for obtaining the teaching qualification must be submitted on request.
• Further documents required for recognition may be requested subsequently.

An administrative fee is generally charged for processing the application (maximum € 130.00).

There are no deadlines to be observed.

• EU Teaching Qualifications Recognition Regulation (EECRL48/89LehrAV RP 2016)
• DIRECTIVE 2005/36/EC OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of September 7, 2005 on the recognition of professional qualifications
• § Section 17 (1) of the State Civil Servants Act (LBG)

• Recognition-in-Germany

06.05.2022