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More and more training organizations want to make their training courses eligible for the CPF, so that their trainees can benefit from funding. However, many are realizing that it’s not that easy to make a training course eligible, and that obtaining Qualiopi certification is not enough.
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Certain training courses are automatically eligible for the CPF if the training organization holds Qualiopi certification. These include the following courses
Please note, however, that it is not enough to classify your training in one of these categories. Your training action must meet the criteria required by Mon Compte Formation.
Indeed, Mon Compte Formation organizes numerous controls. Recently, a large number of training providers have received reminders for training courses labelled as ‘Création et Reprise d’Entreprise’. Some of the training courses presented by EDOF do not meet the essential criteria.
As a reminder, a “business start-up and takeover” training course must be aimed at acquiring entrepreneurial skills, without preparing for a specific profession. It must be aimed at people who have a business start-up or takeover project, but are not yet managers, and the Training Organization must check the viability of the beneficiary’s project. It must also include synchronous learning sessions (face-to-face, videoconferencing, virtual classes, etc.).
To be eligible for the CPF, VAE actions must begin at the end of the admissibility phase.
As for driving licenses, the training organization must have prefectoral approval.
If your training is not automatically eligible, the first option is to set up a partnership with a certification body.
To be eligible, your training course must lead to a certification registered with the RS or RNCP. The first thing you need to do is visit the France Compétences website, and check the catalog to see if one or more existing certifications are relevant to your training program.
If this is the case, you can contact the certifier and ask them to set up a partnership. If the certifier agrees to enable partners, he or she will share the specifications and conditions with you, and it’s up to you whether or not to accept them. Please note, however, that following France Compétence’s new requirements, more and more certifying bodies are asking to audit potential partners to ensure that they comply with the requirements of the referential, the CPF and France Compétence. The certifier may also ask you to provide a certain amount of information to enable him/her to carry out the certification process.
Once a partnership has been established, the certifier will register you on the list of partners authorized to prepare their certification, and you will be able to offer your training on EDOF.
Yes, certification bodies are free to refuse a partnership. Some choose not to authorize any partner, and thus to be the only ones to prepare for their certification.
If all your partnership applications are rejected, you won’t be able to make your training courses eligible for the CPF unless you submit your own certification. However, you won’t be able to apply for a certification that’s too similar to an existing one, so you’ll have to prove your added value.
If there are no existing certifications that come close to your training courses, if your partnership applications have been rejected, or simply if you want to be the holder of your own certification to have more freedom, you can submit a registration application to France Compétences.
There are two directories for which you can apply:
The registration file and the required documents are very complex and require a great deal of preparation. France Compétences has a high refusal rate, reaching 80% for RS. So if you want to get started, it’s important to take your time and do it seriously.
The first thing to do before putting together your application is to check that it will be eligible. You’re applying for certification, not training, so you need to focus on what the certification will do for the beneficiaries.
The first essential criterion is that the certification validates the acquisition of skills. Without this, you won’t be able to apply for certification. Skills are the opposite of knowledge, i.e. the beneficiary must be able to do something, and not have theoretical knowledge. It is therefore impossible to register a certification such as “everything you need to know about…”.
The next question to ask is whether your certification meets current or future market needs. These needs may be in terms of employment (RNCP) or skills (RS). If your certification does not meet real needs, it is unlikely to be accepted by France Compétences.
You should also use your feedback from beneficiaries to check that certification has had a positive impact on their employability.
Finally, you need to check that there isn’t already a certification too close to yours. You’ll need to prove your added value and that your certification offers something different from the others.
If you feel that your application is eligible, you need to create an account on the France Compétences website and fill in the registration form. In addition to the basic information, you will be asked to provide a number of documents, such as reference documents proving the value of your certification. These documents will be used to prove the value of the certification. You’ll need to use feedback from your learners, so it’s important to test your training before applying for certification. You won’t be able to apply for a training project that has never been tested. For RNCP, you’ll also need to provide an analysis of the results of two promotions and the impact of the certification on the professional integration of beneficiaries.
These documents are essential, and it’s important to take the time to draw them up correctly. We can help you for this purpose.
France Compétences will then analyze your application and get back to you within several months with its decision. If your application is rejected, you can rework your file and try again later.
If your registration or partnership application is accepted, or if you have a training course that is eligible by right, you will need to enter your training offers on EDOF, the CPF website.
Be careful to respect all the criteria when creating your offers, so that they are not dereferenced in the event of an inspection.
You must also take care to comply with the obligations of certifying bodies, including certifier attachment and transmission of information relating to authorized partners.
To maximize your chances, it’s possible – and even advisable – to enlist the help of a consultant. Your consultant will be able to check the feasibility of your project and make sure that all the steps are followed and the documents drawn up correctly.
You can also ask for support in finding a certification partner and/or registering your offers on EDOF.
