Validation of acquired experience

Turning your experience into a diploma

"Any person engaged in working life is entitled to have their professional and other experience validated with a view to acquiring a diploma, a professional qualification or a certificate of qualification appearing on a list drawn up by the national joint employment commission of a professional branch and registered in the national register of professional qualifications referred to in article L.335-6 of the French Education Code"

Why do VAE ?

Procedure & operation

Funding

| French legislation in force

Law 2016-1088 of 8 August 2016 on work, the modernisation of social dialogue and the securing of career paths, art. 78
Law no. 2016-1088 of 8 August 2016 on work, modernising social dialogue and securing career paths, art. 60
Law 2016-1088 of 8 August 2016 on work, the modernisation of social dialogue and the securing of career paths, art.75
Law 2002-73 of 17 January 2002: French Labour Code Book XI article L.900-1

| Obtaining a higher education diploma

"Any person who has worked for at least three years in a professional, salaried, self-employed or voluntary capacity, in connection with the subject of their application, may apply for validation of their acquired experience in order to justify all or part of the knowledge and skills required to obtain a diploma or title awarded in the name of the State by a higher education establishment"