Validation of prior learning

  • VAE: 29 candidates supported in 2022
  • 2022 certification rate (total VAE): 84%.
  • VAE 2022 drop-out rate: 2%.
  • VAPP: 20 candidates in 2022, including 17 admitted (88%)
  • Satisfaction rate 2022: 95%.

BOOST YOUR CAREER BY VALIDATING YOUR ACHIEVEMENTS

Would you like to acquire all or part of a diploma on the basis of your professional experience?
The VALIDATION OF EXPERIENCE (VAE ) is for you.

Would you like to join a academics without having the required diploma? Do you have professional and personal experience to show for it?
The VALIDATION OF PROFESSIONAL AND PERSONAL ACQUISITION (VAPP) can give you access.

TO WHOM IS THE VALIDATION OF ACQUISITIONS (VAE and VAPP) ADDRESSED?

All audiences are targeted by the validation of prior learning:
- Employees, whatever their status (permanent, fixed-term, temporary, etc.),
- Non-employees (members of a liberal profession, farmers, craftsmen, shopkeepers, self-employed workers, etc.),
- Public servants (with or without tenure),
- Jobseekers (whether or not they are receiving compensation),
- Volunteers with experience in associations or trade unions,
- Any person, with or without recognised qualifications.

VAE AT THEUNIVERSITÉ SAVOIE MONT BLANC

The Validation of Acquired Experience is defined in the Social Modernisation Act n°2002-73 of 17 January 2002, decree n°2013-756 of 19 August 2013.

It allows you to take into account your professional and/or social and personal experience in order to obtain all or part of a diploma.
You can only submit one application for VAE per year and for the same diploma.
If you apply for different diplomas, you are limited to three applications per year.

The Validation of Acquired Experience is :
- a right enshrined in Book IX of the Labour Code and in the Education Code;
- an official act that allows the recognition of skills acquired through experience, a procedure of verification, evaluation and attestation of your knowledge and skills, by an independent jury composed of teacher-researchers and professionals.

Before the meeting, don't forget to send your detailed CV and cover letter to vae@univ-smb.fr

In order to help you in the elaboration of your CV, some RNCP cards are at your disposal.

For people who cannot attend a collective information meeting, we ask them to contact a VAE advisor in their department who will send us a VAE liaison form.

VAPP AT THEUNIVERSITÉ SAVOIE MONT BLANC

The Validation of Professional and Personal Experience is defined in the Law on Higher Education of 26 January 1984, Decree n°85-906 of 23 August 1985.

The VAPP allows you to access a level of academics for which you would not be eligible on the basis of the diplomas you hold.
The VAPP unit offers a support system designed to facilitate your access to the information you need to resume your studies. This support system also aims to provide you with the tools you need to showcase your achievements and skills in the application file that is then presented to the educational commission.

Before the meeting, don't forget to send your detailed CV and cover letter to vapp@univ-smb.fr

In order to help you in the elaboration of your CV, some RNCP cards are at your disposal.