What is VAE?
Validation des Acquis de l'Expérience (VAE) enables you to obtain a recognized degree by valorizing the skills you have developed throughout your career - whether professional, voluntary or personal.
Have you acquired experience on the job, without necessarily going through conventional training? VAE enables you to transform this experience into official certification: degree, professional title or qualification certificate.
Accessible to all - regardless of age, status, nationality or level of study - VAE is a real springboard for gaining recognition for your career path and professional advancement.
Who can benefit from VAE?
VAE is accessible to everyone. Anyone, whatever their age, nationality, status or level of training.
All experience directly related to the certification in question is taken into account, with no minimum length of professional experience.
The activity may or may not have been continuous. Volunteer work is also taken into account.
It's a great opportunity for all those who want to ensure their employability in an increasingly competitive market.
It is up to the validation jury to assess the professional nature of the skills acquired and their relevance to those required by the degree or diploma reference framework. The jury may also take into account higher education completed abroad.
VAE objectives
Validation des Acquis de l'Expérience, or VAE, can be used as a means of personal and/or professional development. It is an individual right enshrined in the French Labor Code: "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 degree, a professional title or a certificate of qualification".
This approach enables the candidate to :
- recognition of a professional certification registered with the RNCP or a block of acquired skills
- through paid, self-employed or voluntary work
Diplomas and titles
What qualifications are you considering?
What titles do you have in mind?
- Camera operator: Level 5 (Eu)
- Film and audiovisual production manager: Level 6 (Eu)
- Audiovisual film editor: Level 5 (Eu)
Total or partial VAE?
Candidates can only submit one application per year, and up to three applications for different certifications.
VAE Total
When the candidate's acquired experience is consistent with the knowledge, skills and competencies required by the jury, he or she can obtain the certification in its entirety.
VAE Partial
The jury considers that the candidate's acquired experience is partly in line with the certification requirements and enables him/her to partially meet the certification objectives. The jury then specifies the missing block(s) of skills and advises the candidate on the training to be implemented.
Candidates
- Employee (permanent, fixed-term, casual or temporary)
- Non-salaried (self-employed, etc.)
- Public employee (permanent or temporary)
- Jobseeker (with or without benefits)
Financial support
- Employers
- OPCO
- Pôle Emploi
- CPF*
- Transition Pro
*A balance of charges will be required when the CPF is used (except for jobseekers and CPF built with the employer).
Individual VAE leave
A V.A.E. project can be carried out during working hours, provided that you apply to your employer for a leave of absence.
Individual V.A.E. leave is for a maximum of 48 hours, consecutively or not, in order to take part in tests and support. The employee receives remuneration equal to that which he/she would have received had he/she remained at his/her workstation.
Employees may only take one V.A.E. leave per year within the same company.
In 2025
- 1 person took a VAE DESTS (level 6) with a 100% total validation result