1. TULIP Project Contribution of CGT French TU and of Versailles University National report

2. Legislative context Law of January 17th, 2002: social modernization (paragraph 133 on the VAE /APEL) Law of 2004: work-based lifelong learning and the social dialogue Interprofessional National agreements ( ANI): - on the LLL access for the employees (2003 ) - on the modernization of the labour market (2008) Website: www.legifrance.gouv.frwww.legifrance.gouv.fr

3. The WLLL prescriber actors The State The Regional councils Main actor in coordination of public and private initiatives in the field of learning (PRDFP : regional plan of development of the vocational training) The companies - 1,6 % of the wage bill dedicated to the Continuing Education (> 10 employees) - 0,55% of the wage bill dedicated to the Continuing Education (<= 10 employees) The fund-raiser bodies allocated to the vocational training (OPCA)

4. The WLLL beneficiaries Private sector employees Public administration employees Job-seekers Young people from 16 to 26 years old People not having the status of employee (freelance, private practice) Not working population Websites: -www.service-public.frwww.service-public.fr -www.education.gouv.frwww.education.gouv.fr -www.centre-inffo.frwww.centre-inffo.fr

5. The learning providers 48 000 training bodies: Public institutions - GRETA (Ministry for Education) - AFPA (Ministry for Employment) - Universities Continuing Education (Ministry for Higher Education and Research) Associations Chambers of Commerce or Guild chambers Sectoral bodies and private institutions

6. The Trade Unions Five “representative” confederations (CGT, CFDT, CFTC, FO and CGC) 1,9 M TU members (9% of the employees) 56 % of the employees declare a trade-union presence on their work place Website: www.travail.gouv.frwww.travail.gouv.fr

7. The universities LLL Existing at 83 universities 25000 diplomas (1350 Master’s and 3078 Bachelor’s degrees) 450 engineering degrees 300 000 LLL learners Website : www.fcu.frwww.fcu.fr

8. Relationship between university/TU Many types of relationship: University teachers in trade-union training courses Instituts of work at the universities: trade-union trainings (3 - 5 days) specialized resource/data centers research at the universities education programmes of the 3rd cycle Individual applications of TU activists (VAE/APEL, DIF/ individual right to the training, Education …)

9. Cooperation within the TULIP Project « How TU and university can cooperate in VAE/APEL, in order to use this method for the implementation of the individual right to the LLL within the framework of a career »

10. VAE/APEL Application introduced by the Law of 2002, allowing, by accreditation of prior and experiential learning (formal, informal or non formal), to obtain, totally or partially, a diploma, a title or a qualification recorded in the National Qualifications Register (RNCP)

11. Work plan To prepare a common state of the play on « VAE/APEL and the individual right to the lifelong learning » To analyze the university VAE/APEL developments with a view to cooperation To collect and analyse the VAE/APEL cases of TU activists To achieve a report on the competence related to the TU responsibility and the university offers