As a bridge between the academic and professional worlds, the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers is the only institution of higher education dedicated to lifelong professional training.

The CNAM fulfills three missions: professional training for adults, technological research and innovation, and the promotion of scientific and technical culture.

The CNAM is open to all employees, self-employed individuals, entrepreneurs, job seekers, and those returning to the workforce who wish to update or expand their knowledge, earn a recognized degree, and attain a higher level of qualification to advance their careers, find a job, or change careers.
With the CNAM, it is possible to balance work and training, follow a coherent progression, while maintaining professional and geographic mobility (the CNAM has a presence throughout France and abroad).
In addition, your experience is incorporated into the training program and converted into credits.

The CNAM also caters to students seeking a successful transition into the workforce. It offers work-study programs (apprenticeship and professional training contracts), combining preparation for a recognized state diploma with the acquisition of initial professional experience—both of which are key to a successful career transition. CNAM offers training programs developed in close collaboration with companies and professional organizations to best meet their needs and those of their employees.

The CNAM has a presence throughout mainland France and its overseas territories, as well as internationally (China, Ivory Coast, Lebanon, Morocco, etc.) through its 20 centers and more than 200 teaching locations, enabling it to offer training programs in 29 fields of study comprising 578 training tracks, of which 26% are distance learning and 14% are hybrid learning.

The CNAM’s national program consists of 5,500 in-person course units, 1,300 distance learning units, and 700 hybrid learning units. It is a major player in supporting adult learners, contributing to their professional development, their education at any stage of their lives, and the personalization of their educational paths.

The three main missions of the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers are:
– Vocational training: The CNAM supports adult learners in their career paths and provides training at any stage of their lives to contribute to their professional development or career transition.
– Technological research and innovation: The CNAM benefits from the support of businesses and leading private and public research organizations. With 21 research laboratories, it carries out a significant research effort characterized by interdisciplinarity.
– Promoting scientific and technical culture: CNAM helps promote scientific and technical culture through the Musée des Arts et Métiers, a library, and an annual program of approximately 350 events open to the general public: conferences, symposia, seminars, and exhibitions.

The CNAM Center in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region delivers CNAM’s range of services and training programs throughout its territory and operates six dedicated teaching centers in Aix-en-Provence, Aix-les-Milles, Avignon, Marseille, Nice, and Toulon.
CNAM Paca also operates an immersive lab in Toulon, which serves as a space for training, career guidance, project support, and collective intelligence through the use of immersive technologies: augmented reality, virtual reality, mixed reality, the metaverse, and Web 3.0.
CNAM Paca also has partnership agreements with other training organizations to offer work-study programs, for which it provides educational coordination. Courses are taught by professionals from the business world or by higher education faculty, in a variety of formats—during the day, outside of working hours, in person, online, or through work-study programs…

In 2022, 2,329 people chose CNAM in Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, including 442 young people in work-study programs. 2023–2024 Academic Year: CNAM PACA continues to expand across the region: In conjunction with the “Action Cœur de ville” program led by the Ministry of Territorial Cohesion, CNAM continues to establish a presence in cities designated as “Cœur de territoire”: Grasse, Martigues, Brignoles, Draguignan, Carpentras, Manosque, and Arles.

In partnership with 11 connected campuses and in third places (Draguignan, Brignoles, La Seyne-sur-Mer, Saint-Raphaël, Puget-Téniers, Grillon, Apt, Digne-les-Bains, Arles, Salon-de-Provence, and Marseille), CNAM PACA also provides students who have changed career paths, employees and business owners as part of lifelong learning, and job seekers enrolled in a program for employment integration or professional retraining, to pursue higher education distance learning programs offered by CNAM with the same recognition and quality of degree as a university campus.