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The continuing education service of each College is responsible for admitting candidates and administering their applications.

Awarding a doctorate via the VAE should correspond to :

• A career path equivalent to the research work required to obtain an initial training thesis.

• The knowledge and abilities acquired during this experience in line with doctoral degree requirements. The European Qualifications Framework defines level 8 as follows :
  • “Knowledge at the most advanced frontier of a field of work or study and at the interface between fields.”
  • "The most advanced and specialised skills and techniques, including synthesis and evaluation, required to solve critical problems in research and/or innovation and to extend and redefine existing knowledge or professional practice."
  • “Demonstrate substantial authority, innovation, autonomy, scholarly and professional integrity and sustained commitment to the development of new ideas or processes at the forefront of work or study contexts including research.

• The ability to write and orally present a major scientific work.

• Collège : Law, Political science, Econony and Management.
• Collège : Life and Health Sciences.
• Collège : Human Sciences .
• Collège : Sciences and Technology.