1. 19 May 2016GRONINGEN DECLARATION ANNUAL MEETING CAPE TOWN 20161 Emmanuel Chomarat Mireille Richards Groningen Declaration Annual Meeting Cape Town, May 2016

2. AGENDA 1 FRENCH EDUCATIONAL LANDSCAPE 3 INSTITUTIONAL PARTNERS 4 CUSTOMERS 6 NEW SERVICES FOR THE SCHOOLS 2 HISTORY & EXPERIENCE 7 FRENCH MINISTRY PROJECT 5 VOLUME OF VERIFICATIONS 8 OPPORTUNITY WITH THE MINISTRY 19 May 2016GRONINGEN DECLARATION ANNUAL MEETING CAPE TOWN 20162

3. 1 FRENCH HIGHER EDUCATIONAL LANDSCAPE GRONINGEN DECLARATION ANNUAL MEETING CAPE TOWN 2016 19 May 20163 BACCAULAUREAT UNIVERSITE LYCEE GRANDE ECOLE ECOLE SPECIALISEE LICENCE DUT IUT BTS IEP PREPA INTEGREE PREPA INTEGREE LICENCE PRO DIPLÔME GRANDE ECOLE COMMERCE INGENIEUR MASTER JOURNALISME ASSURANCE LANGUES COMMUNICATI ON JOURNALISME ASSURANCE LANGUES COMMUNICATI ON SCIE NCES POLIT IQUE S SCIE NCES POLIT IQUE S DOCTORAT Very fragmented AN +1 +2 +3 +5 +8 SCHEME OF STUDIES

4. ✔ 361 partnership agreements in French Higher Education schools (University, Business Schools, Engineering schools) ✔ Entire description of the contents of French diplomas from Bac to Bac+8 (Baccalaureat = Final Exam in High school prior to University) ✔ Good knowledge of curriculum (the titles of diplomas, content of courses, …) ✔ Back office tools and procedures to manage the verification process ✔ French National student database with 4,5 millions graduates data ✔ Legal compliance to the Data Protection Act (CNIL) and consent form GRONINGEN DECLARATION ANNUAL MEETING CAPE TOWN 2016 15 years of experience in degree verification 2 HISTORY & EXPERIENCE 19 May 20164

5. ✔ French Ministry of Higher Education and Research (Académies / Rectorats) ✔ CGE: Conférence des Grandes Ecoles (220 Business & Engineering Schools) ✔ CNCP: National Commission for Professional Certification ✔ ADIUT: Assembly of IUT Directors (113) ✔ IAE network France (31) ✔ EFMD: European Foundation for Management Development ✔ ANDRH: National Association of Directors of Human Resources 3 INSTITUTIONAL PARTNERS 19 May 20165GRONINGEN DECLARATION ANNUAL MEETING CAPE TOWN 2016

6. 1 000 customers 80% in France 20% International CAC 40: Banking: Consulting: Recruitment Agencies : Global screening: 4 CUSTOMERS – Our partnership with employers 19 May 20166GRONINGEN DECLARATION ANNUAL MEETING CAPE TOWN 2016

7. 5 VOLUME OF VERIFICATIONS 50 000 Verifications in France 10 000 International verifications 8% Fake degrees 19 May 20167

8. VERIFCENTER Platform for Managing requests for degree verifications VERIFCENTER Platform for Managing requests for degree verifications DOCCENTER Plateform for managing electronically and securely documents DOCCENTER Plateform for managing electronically and securely documents ✔ 100% answer ✔ Database (in or out) ✔ Secure payment ✔ Certificate of achievement ✔ Transcript ✔ Diploma 6 NEW SERVICES FOR THE SCHOOLS ✔ Business Accounts ✔ Legal framework ✔ Statistical DATA 19 May 20168 ✔ E-mail ✔ Share ✔ Print ✔ Signed certified pdf ✔ Printable with a QR code / 2Ddoc GRONINGEN DECLARATION ANNUAL MEETING CAPE TOWN 2016

9. A digital certification of diploma Authenticatable ✔ Accessible on a website : diplome.gouv.fr ✔ Ability to retrieve his document (only the student) on the website by an identification by name, first name, date of birth, school, diploma, year of graduation,… 7 FRENCH MINISTRY PROJECT ✔ Announced by Ministry of Education 21st January 2016 ✔ A digital certification : Unique pdf/url only available to the student, sent by email ✔ Not e-diploma 19 May 20169 Najat Vallaud- Belkacem GRONINGEN DECLARATION ANNUAL MEETING CAPE TOWN 2016 A draft overview of the plan yet to be confirmed, With many unanswered questions

10. ✔ Phase 1 : Bac (600 000/year) & BTS +2 (110 000/year) ✔ Exams, results manage by Académies/rectorats : French departments of Ministry of Education ✔ 80 000 diplomas certificates requests per year (paper) ✔ Phase 2 : Pre-Baccalaureat (BEP, CAP etc … technical) ✔ Phase 3 : Universities, accreditated state diplomas (« Diplomes d’etat ») ✔ Initially, the database will hold data on 500,000 higher education qualifications and 1.6 million from Pre-Bac. ✔ The service will then be rolled out to cover historical data back to the last 15 years, est. 25 million qualifications covered. Which diplomas ✔ Phase 1 : September 2016 ✔ Phase 2 : End of 2016-17 academic year When 19 May 201610GRONINGEN DECLARATION ANNUAL MEETING CAPE TOWN 2016 7 FRENCH MINISTRY PROJECT

11. ✔ Project Management by the Government ✔ No partners, no calls for tender ✔ Fast and simple Who Business Model ✔ Public service for the user ✔ Free ✔ Perennity for 50 years ✔ Administrative gains (80 000 applications requests/year) E diploma ✔ Longer term, complicated to implement (signatures) ✔ National Printing Agency 7 FRENCH MINISTRY PROJECT 19 May 201611GRONINGEN DECLARATION ANNUAL MEETING CAPE TOWN 2016

12. 8 OPPORTUNITY WITH THE MINISTRY ✔ Agent of the Institutions ✔ Development of the Graduate & Employers network ✔ Economic model: reduced management costs for institutions, free for institutions ✔ Integrated ecosystem (Schools and Businesses, National and International) ✔ API with employers (Application Tracking Systems, ATS)& Schools (framework). Our strengths 19 May 201612GRONINGEN DECLARATION ANNUAL MEETING CAPE TOWN 2016 ✔ Official ✔ Completeness ✔ Verifcenter not deployed with all our institutional partners Our limitations

13. 8 OPPORTUNITY WITH THE MINISTRY ✔ State Agency ✔ Or a Contractual partnership Public private partnership Official support ✔ Verifdiploma and its services platforms : – VERIFCENTER : the database is never enough – DOCCENTER : other documents (grade reports, certificate of achievement etc..) ✔ On behalf of the Educational Community : – Rectorats / Universities / Schools TO MANAGE THE NATIONAL DATABASE FOR DEGREE VERIFICATION An opportunity to support the digital certification diploma implementation 19 May 201613GRONINGEN DECLARATION ANNUAL MEETING CAPE TOWN 2016