The Lifelong Learning (FTLV) program is aimed at professionals and organizations who wish to develop skills, support career progression, or address new technological, industrial, and societal needs.
At Mines Saint-Étienne, the offering is based on the academic expertise of the School, on practice-oriented pedagogical approaches, and on a close connection with real-world challenges.
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Who is it for?
FTLV caters to various profiles, with distinct expectations.
- Active Professionals: skill updates, expertise enhancement, taking on new responsibilities.
- Managers and Executives: leading complex projects, organizational transformation, technological management.
- Individuals in Transition: career progression or retraining (depending on available programs).
- Independent Professionals: consolidation of a technical or methodological foundation, expertise enhancement.
- Companies and Organizations: skill development, adaptation to new technologies, change management support.
Our Training Formats
The offering is designed to adapt to the constraints of professionals (time, pace, availability) and to the maturity of needs.
Short Programs
To acquire a targeted skill or quickly update expertise.
Advantages: rapid skill enhancement, practical examples, immediately applicable tools and methods.
Certificates and Modular Programs
To build a structured progression, often through coherent modules, compatible with professional activity.
Advantages: progressive pathway, step-by-step validation, organizational flexibility.
Long-Term and Degree Programs
To aim for a lasting profile transformation (advanced expertise, leadership trajectory, role evolution).
Advantages: in-depth study, projects, practical application, academic recognition.
Delivery Methods
Depending on the programmes: in-person, remote, hybrid, grouped sessions.
Two key programs: VAE & distance learning
To address very specific needs — have experience recognized or train with time and location constraints — Mines Saint-Étienne offers two complementary programs.
Validation of Acquired Experience (VAE)
The VAE allows you to obtain a professional certification by having skills acquired through professional or personal experience recognized.
At Mines Saint-Étienne, it provides access to certain diplomas registered with the RNCP, with a level of requirement equivalent to other pathways to the diploma.
It is open to anyone, regardless of age, status, or level of education.
Distance Academics
Distance learning programs allow you to develop skills while balancing professional activity, geographical constraints, and personal pace.
Mines Saint-Étienne contributes to an offering of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), accessible remotely, useful for discovering a field, consolidating fundamentals, or preparing for skill enhancement.
Areas of Expertise
FTLV draws on expertise from the School’s areas of excellence and its teams. Depending on the programmes, the training courses can cover:
- Digital, Data, AI: methods, tools, industrialization, responsible uses.
- Industrial Engineering / Systems Performance: optimization, management, supply chain, quality, decision-making.
- Materials and Processes: understanding, characterization, durability, transformation.
- Energy and Environment: efficiency, transition, leaner processes, impact analysis.
- Microelectronics and Systems: design, security, reliability, integration.
- Innovation and Transformation: change management, responsible innovation, technological management.
Enroll / Get Guidance
1) Clarify your objective
- targeted skill (short course)
- structured progression (certificate / modular)
- profile transformation (long-term / degree-granting)
- recognition of experience (VAE)
2) Check prerequisites and organization
- expected level (training, experience)
- schedule, duration, pace
- delivery methods (in-person / remote / hybrid)
3) Guidance discussion (recommended)
A discussion allows you to validate the relevance of the format, compatibility with your constraints, and the appropriate entry level.
Contact Us
Performance and Development Department – Continuing Education and Lifelong Learning Division
Funding
Depending on your situation (employee, job seeker, freelancer, company) and according to the programs in force, several funding options can be utilized: company funding, skills operators (OPCO), individual schemes (e.g., CPF), or other possible aid.
Funding rules may evolve: a discussion with your employer/OPCO and the FTLV team allows for identifying the most suitable solution.
FAQ
Yes. The formats are designed to be compatible with professional activity (grouped sessions, modular pathways, hybrid options depending on programs).
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Yes, depending on the programmes. Distance learning courses utilize tailored learning modalities (virtual classes, online resources, exercises, support).
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Yes. In-house training can be tailored to a specific need (content, level, duration, use cases, objectives, evaluation).
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Based on your objective: targeted skill (short), progression (modular), transformation (long), recognition of experience (VAE), or organizational constraints (distance).
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An orientation discussion helps to clarify the objective, verify the prerequisites, and choose the most relevant format.
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Continuing education involves following a programme to acquire skills. VAE aims to validate skills already acquired through experience, to obtain a diploma or certification.
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