Definition

Continuing Vocational Training (Formation Professionnelle Continue - FPC) and vocational training for career change give all people the lifelong right to develop their knowledge and skills, improve their vocational qualifications and change their career path according to their personal needs or changes in their economic, technological or social environment.

It is aimed at people who:

1. Wish to gain a qualification,
2. Wish to keep or extend a qualification,
3. Are at risk of losing their job, are unemployed or can no longer practice their profession.

Source: Code du Travail, LIVRE V, Chapitre II, Section 1, Art. L. 542-1.