Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft Werkstätten für behinderte Menschen e. V. (BAG WfbM) is the German Federal association of sheltered workshops with its headquarter in Berlin.

In roughly 3,000 subsidiaries they provide vocational education, work opportunities and support in personal development for around 310,000 people with intellectual, psychological and severe and multiple disabilities. (Source:bagwfbm.eu)

In 2023, 93 % of the German sheltered workshops were organized in BAG WfbM. Sheltered workshops are a common form of employment provision for people with disabilities across Europe where their disabilities create barriers to accessing the open labour market. Traditional sheltered workshops offer long-term or permanent employment for people with disabilities whereas transitional sheltered workshops aim to develop workers' skills so that they can access non-sheltered employment in other workplaces. 

Government procurement law in the European Union makes special provision for contracting with sheltered workshops for the supply of goods and services to public authorities. Germany's federal decree on contracts for workshops for the disabled (10 May 2005) requires German federal contracting authorities to set aside part of their budgets for contracts which can be awarded to workshops for workers with disabilities. (Source: Wikipedia)