Validation of experience

1. 1. Like all applicants to the course, you pre-enrol online on the “Applications” platform

You can describe your background and provide supporting arguments for your request for VAPP in the “Motivations” section. Be sure to highlight your professional background in this section.

You can also send any supporting documents by post to the pedagogical secretariat of the relevant course or contact us for further information fc@univ-eiffel.fr 

2. The pedagogical committee of the course meets to evaluate and select the applications received. It examines the following elements :

• Studies undertaken in public or private institutions, in initial training or lifelong learning
• Foreign qualifications
• Professional or extra-professional experience acquired during an employed or self-employed activity or internship
• Knowledge and skills acquired outside any training system (association, committee, trade union, travel as a student, etc.)

3.    At the end of this process, the pedagogical commission makes its decision. Applicants admitted will fall under the lifelong learning scheme.

Please note

• Approval authorises you to apply for the course, but does not dispense with selection if this is provided for in the recruitment procedures for applicants for the course
• Approval recognises a level of prerequisites, but does not award the degree for which the exemption was granted.

For more information :

• The VAPP allows you to access a university education without the qualifications normally required, thanks to your professional or personal experience. For example: your professional or personal experience may enable you to enrol in a fourth-year course without having the third-year prerequisite. It also allows you to enter a training programme without having to take certain courses for which you already have significant experience.
• The VAE allows you to obtain recognition of your professional or extra-professional experience, without the need for qualifications, in order to complete all or part of a degree, diploma or professional qualification.

These schemes are open to all, with specific conditions of access :

• VAPP: be at least 20 years old and have interrupted your initial studies for at least 2 years.
• VAE: proof of one year of continuous or discontinuous experience, in relation to the content of the qualification sought.

• For the VAPP: Like all applicants to the course, you pre-enrol online on the “Applications” platform

• For the VAE: Three dates for the submission of admissibility files: 31 March, 15 June, 15 November, using the eCandidat platform