The SOIB opens the 2027 qualified youth call with five million

The Employment Service of the Balearic Islands (SOIB) has opened the call SOIB-Employment opportunities for qualified young people in public sector entities of the CAIB and the University of the Balearic Islands 2027, endowed with 5,000,000 euros, so that these entities may hire unemployed qualified young people for one year. The call is published in the Official Gazette of the Balearic Islands (BOIB) no. 145, of November 12, 2026, Section III, page 64251, via resolution 11385, electronically signed on November 9 by the Minister of Labor, Public Service and Social Dialogue and president of SOIB, Catalina Teresa Cabrer González. The deadline for submitting applications is fifteen business days starting from the day after publication.

The call is approved through the early processing of expenditure for the 2027 financial year, authorized by a resolution from the minister on September 3, 2026, under articles 43 and following of Decree 75/2004, of August 27, and the credit is allocated to cost center 76101, subprogram 322D14, chapter 4, earmarked fund 19213 (ESF+). The act provides continuity to the previous program, SOIB Jove: Qualified public sector, University and local entities 2024, whose projects ended in December 2025, and is framed within Priority 5 “Youth Employment” of the European Social Fund Plus (ESF+) Balearic Islands 2021-2027 program, co-financed by the European Union.

Fifteen days to submit a single hiring project

Public business entities and public sector foundations of the CAIB, as well as the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB), may apply for the grants. Each entity must submit a single application with all planned job positions, ordered by priority and including the qualification, location, and tasks for each.

• Deadline: fifteen business days from November 13, 2026.
• Processing: ESOIB management application and electronic procedure of the Government’s Electronic Office.
• Maximum grant per entity: 750,000 euros, with a guarantee of a sufficient amount for at least one hire.
• Procedure: non-competitive concurrence, without comparison of applications.
• Resolution: six months from the end of the application deadline, with an Evaluation Commission including a presidency, secretary, and three technical members.

One-year contracts and modules of up to 45,077 euros

The final beneficiaries are people between 18 and 30 years old, unemployed, registered as job seekers at the SOIB and beneficiaries of the National Youth Guarantee System, with a university degree or intermediate or higher vocational training degree, a level 2 or 3 professional certificate, or an equivalent degree in artistic or sports education. The contracts are temporary for a specific cause, full-time and one year in duration, and cannot cover structural positions or tasks linked to the economic activity of the entity.

The amount of each grant is obtained by applying the corresponding module multiplied by 365 days:

• CAIB public sector, Mallorca: Module A €40,106.20; Module B €31,919.25; Module C €27,389.60.
• Menorca and Ibiza: €41,427.50, €33,240.55 and €28,710.90, respectively.
• Formentera: €42,621.05, €34,434.10 and €29,904.45.
• UIB: Group I €45,077.50; Group II €37,887.00; Group III €33,696.80.

Youth unemployment of 15.7% and insertion of 80% six months later

The resolution justifies the call with data from the 2025 Labor Force Survey: the unemployment rate for young people aged 16 to 29 in the Balearic Islands stands at 15.7%, compared to 8.8% of the total active population. Among young people with higher education, it reaches 10.1%, compared to 5.4% overall, and among those with second-stage professional orientation studies, 12.2% compared to 6.8%. Furthermore, 25.8% of unemployed young people were seeking their first job, youth part-time employment is 21.4%, and the temporality of young salaried workers reaches 31.0%.

The results of the 2024 call support its continuity: six months after finishing their participation, 80% of the participants were registered with Social Security, with 78.8% among men and 90.3% among women. Contracts may begin between the day after the notification of the grant and October 15, 2027, and substitutions may extend until October 31, 2028.

The call arrives while the Balearic youth labor market continues to show a persistent differential compared to the general population, and it does so with an instrument that has already demonstrated insertion capacity. For city councils, the instrumental public sector, and the university, the calendar is short: fifteen business days to specify how many jobs they can assume and with which qualification, before the credit is distributed among the entities that meet the requirements.

Source: Official Gazette of the Balearic Islands (BOIB), no. 145, November 12, 2026, Section III, p. 64251 (official reference: 1232650, announcement 11385).