Validation of Acquired Experience (VAE)

Professionals wishing to validate their professional experience with a diploma from the Ecole du Louvre can submit an application file detailing their career path and professional achievements as part of the VAE scheme.

Any person who has carried out a professional activity can benefit from validation of acquired experience (VAE) under certain conditions. Their work experience can allow them to receive an official certification which can help them progress professionally.

Just like attending a school or university, doing an apprenticeship or taking part in further education schemes, the VAE is a fully-fledged pathway to obtain a diploma.

A diploma is no longer just a way to sanction an educational course, it is also a way to sanction a professional and personal experience.

You must have been, for at least one year (continuous or not):

• Carrying out a professional activity, paid or unpaid,
• Volunteering, with or without a written contract,
• On the list of high-level athletes,
• Carrying out trade union activities,
• A local electoral mandate or a local elective function.

The experience must be related to the certification sought.

A job seeker, whether they receive benefits or not, can also benefit from VAE under certain conditions.

Submission of the application file:
The first step of the VAE consists of compiling and submitting an application file.

It must include:

• Documents justifying the duration of the activities carried out by the candidate,
• Specific documents requested by the Ecole du Louvre,

The application form filled in and signed by the candidate.

Download the application file below (save the file, then open it with a PDF reader).

• Send the digital file by email to [email protected], no later than November 30, 2023

   

• Cost: €80
  Bank transfer details will be indicated by email upon receipt of the digital file by the Ecole du Louvre.
   

You will receive an email which will confirm whether your file can be administratively admissible or not.

If the file is admissible, you must request a validation file to be sent via email.
In this file which you will have to post back to us, you will describe the tasks and activities that you have accomplished during your professional experience, and detail the knowledge, skills and competencies your acquired, as well as their adequacy with the reference framework of the desired diploma.

The validation request is submitted to a jury composed of at least 25% professionals.

• Submission of the file (by post), no later than February 29, 2024:
  École du Louvre (Service de la scolarité)
  Place du Carrousel. Porte Jaujard. 75038 Paris cedex 01.
   
• Cost:
  €350 (when paid by the applicant themselves)
  (please enclose a cheque for the attention of the Régie des recettes de l'École du Louvre)
  or
  €700 (when paid by the applicant’s employer)
  (please enclose a cheque for the attention of the Régie des recettes de l'École du Louvre)

Interview with the VAE jury
The jury checks that your acquired knowledge corresponds to the skills, knowledge and skills required for the diploma you wish to obtain. The interview with the VAE jury will take place between March and April 2024.

Three decisions can be made:

• Total validation: the jury considers that your acquired knowledge corresponds to the skills, knowledge and skills required for the diploma you wish to obtain. You then receive a skills certificate confirming this.
• Partial validation: the jury considers that your acquired knowledge does not fully correspond to the skills, knowledge and skills required for the diploma you wish to obtain. You will then receive a certification booklet which indicates the skills acquired, as well as notification of the elements which will require additional assessment.
• Refusal of validation: the jury considers that your acquired knowledge does not correspond to the skills, knowledge and skills required for the diploma you wish to obtain.

• Second cycle diploma from the Ecole du Louvre, “Art History applied to collections” course
• Second cycle diploma from the Ecole du Louvre, “Museology” course
• Second cycle diploma from the Ecole du Louvre, “Art Market” course
• Second cycle diploma from the Ecole du Louvre, “Mediation” course
• Second cycle diploma from the Ecole du Louvre, “Management of works and preventive conservation” course
• Second cycle diploma from the Ecole du Louvre, “Origins” course

Below you will find a list of the skills and abilities acquired at the end of the first and second year of the second cycle at the Ecole du Louvre. VAE candidates must demonstrate that they possess and have mastered them.

• Download the help and support document
• Download the descriptive appendices to the Art history applied to collections second cycle diploma
• Download the descriptive appendices to the Museology second cycle diploma
• Download the descriptive appendices to the Art Market second cycle diploma
• Download the descriptive appendices to the Mediation second cycle diploma
• Download the descriptive appendices to the Management of Works and Preventive Conservation second cycle diploma 
• Download the descriptive appendices to the Origins second cycle diploma.