Financing your training

Financing your training

You are inserted in the active life, employee, job seeker, independent, you depend on the "continuing education" student status.
Your training has a cost and can be financed.

Two steps to be taken at the same time

Searching for funding

This stage is essential and can take time, often several months (sometimes 2 to 6 months). It is advisable to anticipate it sufficiently before you start your training.
Depending on your situation, financing solutions can be considered.
The Lifelong Learning Department and its Resumption of Studies Unit can help you find funding and take care of the administrative procedures involved in continuing education.

 

Selection and application stage

To obtain pedagogical information :
- consult the corresponding page of the training catalogue
- contact the teaching team indicated in the contacts tab of each course

To apply and register :
- consult the page: registration
- and also the page: applications

 

Depending on the training course and your personal situation, the financing system may vary. It is important to differentiate between the cost of training on the one hand, and your salary during your training on the other.

the CPF Personal Training Account

From your first job until your retirement, you can accumulate euros in your CPF account to train.

First step to take:
Activate your Personal Training Account on the website mytrainingaccount.gouv.fr

Second step: check that the training is eligible for the CPF. Bachelor's degrees, professional degrees and masters are all eligible for the CPF. So are some university degrees.

List of courses at the University of Avignon eligible for the CPF
List of Avignon University courses eligible for funding by the South Region (based on application only)

Please note that the fact that a training course is eligible does not mean that your financing is acquired: it is possible subject to the assembly of your request with your CEP and the agreement of assumption of responsibility, under certain conditions.

For the financing and the preparation of your application, you can be assisted by your CEP professional development advisor

• you are under 26 years old: contact the Mission Locale,
• you are disabled: contact Cap Emploi
• you are an executive or a young person from higher education: contact the APEC
• you are a job seeker: contact Pôle Emploi

South Paca Region Orientation Hotline

You can reach them on 0 800 600 007 - free service and call

You can also consult the website orientationsud.fr if you are unsure about your choice of direction.

The South Region supports the training courses of Avignon University, co-financing is possible, talk about it with your CEP professional development advisor!

 

1 - The Skills Development Plan

Each company must ensure the training of its employees at their workstation and ensure the maintenance of their skills to occupy their job as well as their development within the company. In order to fulfil this mission, the employer must propose training courses provided for in the company's Skills Development Plan.
If you are an employee of a company with more than 300 employees:
contact the human resources department or the management of your company.
If you are an employee of a company with less than 300 employees:
contact your management and your OPCO

More information on the Skills Development Plan

2 - The CPF Personal Training Account

As an employee, you can accumulate €500 on your CPF each year for a full-time job, with a ceiling of €5000.
If you are an unqualified employee (below baccalaureate level), you accumulate €800 and a ceiling of €8000.

First step to take:
Activate your Personal Training Account on the website moncompteformation.gouv.fr

Second step: check that the training is eligible to the CPF
List of Avignon University courses eligible for the CPF and supported by the South Paca Region (on application)

- The training takes place during your working timeThe training takes place during your working time, this requires the agreement of your employer. Attention you must anticipate your request at least 120 days before the start of the training
or
- The training takes place outside working hoursyou do not need your employer's agreement.

You choose your training course that is eligible for the CPF.

Please note that the fact that a training course is eligible does not mean that your financing is acquired: it is possible - subject to the preparation of your application with your CEP and the agreement of the financing bodies according to their conditions.

For the financing and the preparation of your application, you can be assisted by your CEP professional development advisor.

3 - The Pro-A: retraining or promotion by alternation (replaces the professionalization period)

The law of 5 September 2018 creates a new system to revitalize the training methods available to employees: retraining or promotion by alternation (Pro-A). In a context of strong changes in the labor market, the Pro-A system allows employees, especially those whose qualifications are insufficient in light of changes in technology or work organization, to promote their professional development or promotion and their retention in employment.

For the employer, Pro-A meets two needs:

• to prevent the consequences of technological and economic change;
• to allow access to qualification when the activity is conditioned by the obtaining of a certification accessible only in employment, via continuous training.

Retraining or promotion through work-study schemes is a complement to the company's skills development plan and the personal training account (CPF). Implemented at the initiative of the employee or the company, the Pro-A system can be used for career development, professional reorientation or the joint development of qualification projects between employees and employers.
More information on the Pro-A system

4 - Work-based training

Work-linked training is based on the articulation of training time in a training establishment (theoretical training) and in the company that welcomes you (practical training). There are two types of work-study contracts: the apprenticeship contract and the professional training contract.

Why choose a sandwich course?

The apprenticeship contract

The apprenticeship contract is an employment contract concluded between an employer and an employee. Its purpose is to enable a young person to follow a general, theoretical and practical training course, with a view to acquiring a State diploma (CAP, BAC, BTS, Licence, Master, etc.) or a professional qualification registered in the National Register of Professional Certifications (RNCP), including all the professional qualifications covered by the ministry responsible for employment.
More information on the apprenticeship contract

The CFA Epure Méditerranée is the CFA of the Higher Education and accompanies Avignon University in the development of its apprenticeship training.

The professionalization contract

The professionalization contract is an employment contract concluded between an employer and an employee. It allows the acquisition - within the framework of continuing education - of a professional qualification (diploma, title, certificate of professional qualification, etc.) recognised by the State and/or the professional sector. The aim is to help young people and adults find or return to work.
More information on the professionalization contract

5 - The CPF for professional transition (replaces the CIF)

See the following box.

6 - Schemes for the self-employed

More information on the CPF for self-employed workers

 

1 - The CPF-TP Professional Transition Personal Training Account (ex FONGECIF)

The CPF for professional transition is a special mobilization of the CPF offering the possibility to employees to carry out a professional transition project in order to follow a training course to retrain on their own initiative. It is granted by the employer, and the employee is remunerated for the duration of the training under certain conditions.
The CPF de transition is independent of the company's skills development plan (formerly the training plan).
The transitional CPF can concern a training area different from the professional activity sector.
More information on Transitions Pro Paca

2 - Resignation/reconversion

More information on the resignation/conversion scheme

the CPF Personal Training Account for Public Servants

The personal training account (CPF) enables public servants to gain access to a qualification or to develop the skills needed to implement a professional development project. This project can be the preparation of a future mobility, promotion or professional reconversion. The CPF replaces the individual right to training (DIF).

the CFP Professional training leave for civil servants

The purpose of professional training leave (CFP) is to allow you to follow, on your own initiative, personal training actions, independently of the participation in the actions provided for in the training plan of the community in which you carry out your activity.

Professional training leave is open to all public employees, whether permanent or contractual, in the three branches of the civil service.
Its objective is to allow employees to complete their personal training through professional or personal training courses that are not offered by the administration, or for actions organised by the administration to prepare for administrative competitions. The first year of professional training leave entitles the employee to a fixed monthly allowance.
Conditions: the granting of this leave is subject to conditions of access.

More information on the CFP