Obtaining a DAP under an adult apprenticeship contract or through VAE or the DAP Nursing Assistant while working
Adults who discover or rediscover a desire to learn a trade or a profession or change their professional prospects can obtain a Vocational Aptitude Diploma (DAP) through a sandwich course under an adult apprenticeship contract.
Please note that in the healthcare and social professions sector, the DAP Nursing Assistant is also available as on-the-job training.
Adults who work and who wish to gain a DAP Administrative and Commercial Agent may attend the class of the first year DAP by way of evening classes.
The DAP provides access to the labour market as a qualified employee.
Training leading to the DAP for Carers was reformed in 2023 to create 2 new DAPs:
DAP Socio-educational Agent (or DAP Education)
The vocational training leading to the DAP Socio-educational Agent prepares students to participate in the care and supervision of children and young people in nurseries, maisons relais, daycare centres, etc.
The DAP Socio-educational Agent as training for adults and as a French-language scheme has been offered since the start of the 2023/2024 school year.
DAP Inclusion Agent
The training leading to the DAP Inclusion Agent focuses on supporting children, young people, adults and senior citizens with special needs so that they can participate in all aspects of life.
Training for adults will be set up for the start of the 2024-2025 school year.
The new school year 2024/2025 will see the introduction of the new "tattooist" DAP.This unique concurrent training course offers future tattoo artists the opportunity to turn their passion into a job. They will learn to comply with strict hygiene and health conditions, manage customer contact and follow-up, while cultivating their creativity and honing their own style. The access requirement for this three-year training course is to have completed a 5P class with at least 45 modules or to have passed a 5AD/5G class.
All the professional training courses organised under an apprenticeship contract are accessible to adults. Applicants may contact the Vocational Guidance Service (Service d'orientation professionnelle) of the Employment agency (Agence pour le développement de l'emploi - ADEM-OP) for further details.
More information about the access requirements and structure of the adult apprenticeship.
See the Grand-Ducal Regulation dated 15 July 2024 determining the professions and trades in the context of vocational training.
Training can be done in the form of cross-border apprenticeship.
On-the-job nursing assistant training is suitable for people with an employment contract in the care sector, who have a certain amount of work experience and have not had the opportunity to undertake the initial training. The 3-year training course leads to a Nursing Assistant DAP.
Applicants must:
An Admissions Committee ranks the applications and where necessary selects applicants. The registration process can be consulted on the Lycée technique pour professions de santé website: www.ltps.lu
Evening classes are aimed at adults who work and who wish to gain a DAP Administrative and Commercial Agent.
For the evening classes, applicants must be at least 18 years old. They may contact the Lycée technique du centre (LTC) or the Lycée Mathias Adam (LYMA) regarding all the registration conditions.
First-year class DAP and first-year class DAP French-language scheme
After successful completion of the classes of the first year of the DAP course, adults may attend the classes of the second and third years of the course under an adult apprenticeship contract.
Anyone who is in employment and can provide proof of solid experience in relation to the diploma sought may acquire a DAP by applying for the validation of non-formal and informal learning.
More information about the VAE.