IQ Recognition and Qualification Counselling Mainz & Region

We provide support for foreign degrees and qualification requirements, both for individuals and for consulting professionals and companies.

IQ Recognition and Qualification Counselling Mainz & Region

Important note:
We would like to advice you that our consultation services regarding your recognition are only online available. We would therefore like to ask you to submit your consultation request exclusively via our contact form. Due to the very large number of daily inquiries, it could take some weeks for us to respond. We therefore ask kindly for your patience. Please refrain from phone call inquiries in particular. We will get back to you as soon as possible.

We consult you.

The IQ Rhineland-Palatinate recognition- and qualification counselling advises and supports you when:

  • You have obtained a professional, academic or school degree abroad and would like to work in Germany
  • You need qualification measures to achieve a full equivalence of your degree
  • You are in search of proper, specialized and language qualification measures

Our services are also available to consultants from other fields, companies and actors in the labor market. If you are interested or have any questions, please contact us via our contact form. The consultation is free of charge and non-binding for you.

We look forward to your inquiry, the team of IQ Rhineland-Palatinate recognition- and qualification counselling

Informations

We have compiled some information on the most frequently asked questions for you here:

You will find the largest range of information on questions concerning the recognition of foreign qualifications in Germany here:

https://www.anerkennung-in-deutschland.de/

Academic healthcare professions (doctors, pharmacists, dentists)

Information on recognition, professional authorisation and licensing for academic healthcare professions (Approbation) from non-EU countries can be found in our information sheet.

Change of federal state

Are you a doctor, pharmacist or dentist and would like to transfer your recognition procedure from another federal state to Rhineland-Palatinate?

Please follow the instructions in our information sheet.

Application from abroad

If you do not yet live in Germany, you can also submit an application from abroad. Responsible for foreign applications is:

ZAV – Virtual Welcome Center
Villemombler Straße 76
53123 Bonn
Telefon: +49 228 713 1313

E-Mail: recognition@arbeitsagentur.de

Zentrale Servicestelle Berufsanerkennung (ZSBA)

You can also contact the BAMF telephone hotline: The hotline “Working and Living in Germany” answers your questions on the following topics in German and English: Recognition of foreign professional qualifications, job search, work and career, entry and residence, learning German. The hotline is available from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm CET, Monday through Thursday, and Friday from 9:00 am to 12 pm CET under the following telephone number: +49 30 1815-1111.

You can find further counselling services in the countries: Egypt, Algeria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil (São Paulo), Colombia, India (Pune), Iran, Italy, Poland and Vietnam (Ho Chi Minh City) under the following link:

https://www.ahk.de

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Counselling centers

Aside from our consulting centre in Mainz, there are other contact and counselling centres in IQ Landesnetzwerk Rheinland-Pfalz for questions on professional recognition. You may contact a counselling centre in your area.

The Network IQ – Integration through Qualification is funded by the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs and the European Union through the European Social Fund Plus (ESF Plus) and administered by the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees. Strategic partners in implementing the programme are the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the Federal Employment Agency.

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Architect

  • Interior designer
  • Landscape architect
  • Urban planner

Humanities scholar

  • Historian
  • Musicologist
  • Art historian
  • Religious Studies
  • Cultural scientist
  • Communication scientist

Healthcare professions

  • Dietician
  • Occupational therapist
  • Health and paediatric nurse
  • Health and paediatric nurse
  • Healthcare and paediatric nurse assistant
  • Midwife / maternity nurse
  • Speech therapist
  • Masseur and medical bath attendant
  • Medical-technical laboratory assistant
  • Medical-technical radiology assistant
  • Medical-technical assistant for functional diagnostics
  • functional diagnostics
  • Emergency paramedic
  • Orthoptist
  • Pharmaceutical-technical assistant
  • Physiotherapist
  • Podiatrist
  • Emergency paramedic
  • Veterinary technical assistant

Craftsman

  • Hairdresser
  • Confectioner
  • Carpenter
  • Locksmith
  • Butcher
  • Tailor
  • Bricklayer
  • Cook
  • Painter and varnisher
  • Metal worker
  • Baker

Merchant

  • Retail sales assistant
  • Office management assistant
  • Management assistant in wholesale and foreign trade
  • Bank clerk

Natural scientist

  • Mathematician
  • Chemist
  • Biologist
  • Agricultural scientist
  • Physicist
  • Forest scientist
  • Geoscientist

Philologist

  • English studies
  • Romance Studies
  • German Studies
  • Literary scholar
  • Linguist

Technician

  • Food technician
  • Air conditioning and refrigeration technician
  • Construction technician

Economist

  • Business economist
  • Administrative economist
  • Statistician
  • Economist

Important notice

We would like to advice you that our consultation services regarding your recognition are only online available. We would therefore like to ask you to submit your consultation request exclusively via our contact form. Due to the very large number of daily inquiries, it could take some weeks for us to respond. We therefore ask kindly for your patience. Please refrain from phone call inquiries in particular. We will get back to you as soon as possible.

Best regards and stay healthy, your consulting team.