Continuing education department

Validation of Acquired Experience (VAE)

Validation des Acquis de l'Expérience (VAE) enables you to obtain all or part of a certification by presenting your skills and experience to a panel of judges.

You don't take a course:you prepare a booklet setting out the skills you have acquired through your professional career. These will enable you to validate the certification you are aiming for, either in full or in part.

We can help you with the drafting and the jury process.

Certification can be a diploma, a professional title or a certificate of professional qualification, and must be registered with the RNCP in order to be validated by VAE. Universities, high schools, Afpa, Greta, etc. can deliver their RNCP-registered diplomas, titles and certificates via VAE.

The University of Montpellier can only validate its own diplomas.

General framework of VAE

VAE regulations
PUBLIC

There's just one condition:

Proof of at least 1 year's experience (1,607 hours, full-time equivalent), salaried or not, continuous or not (volunteer work, union activities, etc.), directly related to the targeted certification.

CERTIFICATIONS ACCESSIBLE THROUGH THE VAE

The University of Montpellier can only validate its own national diplomas.

All our DUT, Licences, Licences Professionnelles, Masters, Engineering Diplomas and Doctorates are accessible via VAE.

Choice of certification :

  • You haven't yet targeted the training that matches your professional experience.

Before setting up your project, you can take advantage of free support from a VAE advisor at a "point relais conseil".
He or she can help you to assess the relevance of your project and obtain the necessary funding.

  • You haven't yet identified a diploma, but you know the field related to your project and would like to find out more about the training courses offered by the UM.

For help with your initial search, contact carole.raabon@umontpellier.fr

  • You have identified the certification you wish to obtain through VAE.

Take a look at our training courses and learn more about the objectives and skills targeted.

BOOKLET I CONSTITUTION

Booklet I includes the following supporting documents:

  • the CERFA application form, duly completed  
  • a covering letter specifying the title of the diploma you are aiming for
  • a curriculum vitae detailing your professional background and education/training
  • copies of diplomas, certifications and training certificates
  • proof of at least one year's experience related to the diploma in question

You can submit your VAE Booklet I throughout the year.

On receipt of your Livret I, we will :

  •  An administrative study (matching experience with the diploma in question, seniority, etc.)
  • A pedagogical study carried out by the diploma coordinator, who issues a positive or negative pedagogical opinion.

Within 2 months of submitting your Livret 1, we will send you a letter of administrative admissibility and an opinion of pedagogical feasibility.

Eligibility is valid for 18 months from the date of issue.
After that date, you will have to start the process all over again.

BOOKLET II CONSTITUTION

Your VAE application is accepted. You'll need to draw up a Livret II, which you'll present orally before a jury.

Accompaniment :

You can take advantage of an optional 12 hours of face-to-face, distance or blended coaching.

Support lasts from 6 to 12 months, and helps you to write up your skills in relation to the diploma, and to prepare for your oral presentation to the jury.

This support can be financed: consult the reference site to find your financing solution.

Drafting Booklet II :

Booklet II must show that you have acquired the following skills through experience:

  • The skills
  • Knowledge
  • Skills covered by the diploma

You express these skills through three or four real-life work situations.

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAE JURY

The jury is made up of teachers and professionals. It is sovereign in its final decision.

Two sessions per year:

  • November
  • April

Audition procedure :

  • 20-minute presentation based on your Livret II
  • 20 minutes of questions and answers
  • Deliberation
  • Immediate oral notification of the decision taken by all members of the jury: total or partial award or refusal of the diploma

In the event of partial validation, you may be required to take a training course to complete the missing skills.

RATE

Livret I study fee: €50

Course with accompaniment: €2,000

Unaccompanied course: €800

Jury oral accompaniment (optional 2 hours): €200

Support can be financed: consult the reference site to find your financing solution.

Ask your manager for a quote.

VAE FIGURES

In 2022 :

  • 130 candidates received a positive opinion on their Livret I
  • 45 candidates were interviewed by the panel
  • 37 candidates obtained full validation of their VAE
  • 7 candidates obtained partial validation of their VAE
  • 1 candidate did not obtain VAE validation

In 2021 :

  • 73 candidates received a positive opinion on their Livret I
  • 52 candidates were interviewed by the panel
  • 35 candidates obtained full validation of their VAE
  • 16 candidates obtained partial validation of their VAE
  • 1 candidate did not obtain VAE validation

In 2020 :

  • 112 candidates received a positive opinion on their Livret I
  • 89 candidates were interviewed by the panel
  • 63 candidates obtained full validation of their VAE
  • 23 candidates obtained partial validation of their VAE
  • 3 candidates did not obtain VAE validation

Validation of acquired experience for specific diplomas:

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