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VAE, Validation of Acquired Knowledge and Experience

What is VAE? Validation des Acquis de l’Expérience (or VAE) is an individual right introduced by the French social modernization law of January 17, 2002. It is open to all employees, non-salaried workers and job-seekers, regardless of previous qualifications. According to the Loi de Modernisation Sociale of January 17 2002: “Any person engaged in working life is entitled to have the benefits of his or her experience, particularly professional experience, validated with a view to acquiring a diploma, a professional qualification or a certificate of qualification”. All the qualifications offered by ASCENCIA BUSINESS SCHOOL as part of the VAE process are registered with the RNCP, and certified by the French government at Level 5, Level 6 or Level 7, i.e. 2 to 5 years of higher education after the BAC.
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Your experience is an asset: you can make the most of it!

What professional experience is required for VAE?

VAE is open to all professionals who have acquired professional experience, whether as a volunteer, employee or self-employed, on a continuous or discontinuous basis, and in the field that corresponds to your experience (management, marketing, sales, business management, human resources, etc.). This experience must be accepted after your application has been examined.

Fields of expertise

What professional experience is required for VAE?

Paid and volunteer activities can be taken into account, provided that they correspond to the same field of competence. You can get:

  • The totality of the certification or title, if your competences evaluated by the jury correspond to all those required by the referential of the certification.
  • Parts of the certification, if the jury considers that the skills acquired do not cover the entire field of the certification. Only the corresponding blocks will be assigned to you.

 

In this case, the jury will tell you what skills you still need to acquire. You will then have 5 years to obtain the missing blocks:

  • By acquiring new professional experience, and by making a new application for VAE.
  • By taking additional training that will only cover the modules or parts of training corresponding to the skills still to be acquired.
Process

Key stages in the VAE process

Information on the VAE process

Handing over of the positioning booklet

Review of file admissibility

Creation of the validation file (Livret 2) with coaching (optional)

Oral presentation to the jury

Jury's decision

Full validation

Awarding the RNCP title

Partial validation

Acquire additional skills for a new oral presentation

Financing

The financing of expenses related to the VAE

What kind of financial assistance is available?

You are an employee

You can apply to your CPF (Compte Personnel de Formation) for total or partial funding of your VAE, using your acquired rights (maximum 150 hours); to find out more, click here. Your employer, through your HR department, can also finance your VAE as part of the training plan; to find out more, click here. If you’re a jobseeker, you can contact France Travail or the Conseil Régional in your region to find out how you can benefit from financial assistance. Some regional funding schemes have been set up, and can take the form of a VAE checkbook; to find out more, click here . Consult our rates here.

VAE

How do I apply?

You can contact ASCENCIA BUSINESS SCHOOL’s VAE department at any time of the year to request information and to send a first file called the Positioning Booklet. This application file should be returned by email to [email protected]. ASCENCIA BUSINESS SCHOOL’s VAE department will check the admissibility of your application, i.e. the length and nature of your experience in relation to the qualification you wish to apply for. Only when your application has been declared admissible will you be able to begin drafting your validation file (Livret 2).

CANDIDATE’S GUIDE VAE ASCENCIA

Download the VAE welcome booklet

Training courses

To download your application form, click on the course you wish to follow:

  • Please refer to the following page for job opportunities
Demande de recevabilité VAE

Contact

E-mail: [email protected]

Telephone: +33 (0)1 86 90 15 42

Validation leave

The leave for validation of acquired experience allows any private sector employee to take time off work to undertake a validation process. The purpose of this leave may be:

  • Participation in the validation tests organized by the organization that will issue the certification.
  • Support for the preparation of the validation.

 

The maximum duration of the validation leave is 24 hours of absence from work, consecutive or not.

The employee must apply to his or her employer for a leave of absence 60 days before the start of the validation activities. This written request must present:

  • The targeted diploma
  • The dates
  • The nature and duration of the validation actions
  • The name of the authority or organization issuing the certification.

 

The employer has 30 days to respond. He/she may either accept or defer the request for service leave for up to 6 months. At the end of the leave, the employee must present a certificate of effective attendance provided by the organization issuing the certification.

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Number of candidates without support
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Overall success rate for 100% of candidates
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Gestionnaire administration des ventes - Titre de niveau 5 *Global success rate based on 100% of applicants
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Operational Business Manager - Level 7 qualification *Global success rate based on 100% of applicants
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Business Unit Manager - Level 7 qualification
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Data for 2022/2023, updated February 2024

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