Professional training

Professional training

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Looking to take your career in a new direction? To build new skills? To earn a degree or a qualification? The continuing education programmes at the University of Caen Normandy may be exactly what you’re looking for.

UNICAEN welcomes more than 32,000 students, including nearly 3,000 enrolled through continuing education. As a multidisciplinary institution, the University of Caen Normandy offers continuing education across a wide range of degree and qualification programmes at every level, both on campus and remotely.

  • Individuals (employees, jobseekers, self-employed professionals, etc.) who want to earn a degree or qualification, develop their skills and/or build on their professional experience;
  • Employers (private or public) looking to develop their employees’ skills.

  • Expertise in training design;
  • Strong research and teaching capacity;
  • The ability to innovate and adapt to your needs;
  • A location close to you.

Need personalised advice to choose a programme?

Each school is on hand to guide you.

Our services work closely with the University’s Disability and Health Support Office to provide tailored support.

Want to have your prior learning recognised in order to enrol (VAPP) or earn a degree (VAE)?

See the Recognition of prior learning page.

Need personalised advice to build your career plan or fund your training?

The staff of the Guidance and Employability Office (EOI) and the University Continuing Education and Apprenticeship Service (SUFCA) can advise and support you as you build your training pathway and think through your career plans.

Guidance and Employability Office (EOI)

University Continuing Education and Apprenticeship Service (SUFCA)

Are you an employer?

The Continuing Education Business Relations Service of the University of Caen Normandy offers a university-level continuing education catalogue, from the University Studies Access Diploma (DAEU) up to Master’s level, designed to meet the needs of your company and your employees.

Recruit, develop your teams’ skills, innovate…

Find all the information for businesses on our Business Hub.

Continuing professional training draws on a range of stakeholders: the State, regional councils, as well as companies, public and private training providers, and professional, trade union and family organisations.

The ways you can access training vary depending on your status: work-study schemes, individual training leave, and more recently professionalisation contracts and periods, along with the individual right to training.

See the Funding professional training at the University of Caen Normandy page.

Qualiopi processus certifié L'article L.6316-4 II du code du travail reconnait la qualité de l’établissement d'enseignement supérieur au titre des 4 catégories d'actions concourant au développement des compétences.

Find more information (guides, terms and conditions, indicators, etc.) on professional training at the University of Caen Normandy.