1978

Reform of training leave, the purpose of which is to enable all employees, during their working lives, on their own initiative and on a personal basis, to attend training courses independently of their participation in the company's training plan.

GRETAs are innovating, adapting training courses to new types of audience, developing the practice of capitalisable units and systems enabling individualisation of training.

1982

The national employment fund drives a policy of industrial conversion. The first national agreements with companies and professional branches are signed.

The GRETA network proves to major industrial groups that it can be a partner to large organisations and provide consistent, coherent responses: design of trade groups, methods for identifying skills, linking job analyses with training benchmarks, etc.

1983

The Decentralisation Act gives regional councils responsibility for implementing apprenticeship and continuing vocational training schemes.

Since then, the GRETA network, thanks to its territorial coverage, has become a major player alongside institutional bodies in the development of qualifications and skills for all sections of the public.

1986

Since the early 1980s, vocational training has become a tool in the service of policy to combat unemployment.

With the creation of qualification contracts for young people in 1986, the GRETAs developed a network of partnerships with companies in their area, enabling them to devise schemes tailored to these target groups - reception, guidance, assessment of prior learning on entering and leaving the training programme - social and professional support for trainees, increased periods spent in companies as part of the training curriculum, etc.

Individualisation practices are developing and the opening of permanent centres is based on a teaching organisation adapted to differentiated training pathways.

1991

Interprofessional agreement creating, in particular, skills assessment leave. Drawing on their knowledge of the local job market, GRETAs have strengthened their teams of experts in work psychology to carry out skills assessments.

In the PACA academic region, more than 25 centres now welcome employees or jobseekers who wish to use a skills assessment to analyse their skills, motivations and aptitudes with a view to defining a professional or training project.
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2002

The social modernisation law institutes VAE - Validation of Acquired Experience -.

Since the introduction of this new route to certification, GRETAs have been supporting people who wish to enhance their experience and have their skills recognised through certification.

Today, the Espaces VAE in the PACA academic region offer support for more than 900 qualifications.
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2004

Law on lifelong vocational training and social dialogue in particular creates an individual right to training (DIF) for all employees and overhauls the work-linked training scheme with the creation of the professionalisation contract.

The GRETAs' offer is evolving significantly towards modular, tailor-made training courses, to adapt to the demand for "DIF training courses".

On this site, work-linked training courses are specifically mentioned.
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2014

The law of 5 March 2014 on professional training, employment and social democracy in particular puts an end to the Individual Right to Training (DIF) and creates the Personal Training Account (CPF) open to anyone who is employed or looking for work.

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The world has changed: the high level of unemployment and the acceleration of economic change mean that vocational training is seen as a decisive lever for accessing, maintaining and returning to employment.
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2015

Law on the quality of continuing vocational training activities. This law specifies the criteria to be taken into account by training funders (State, Regions, Opca, Opacif, Pôle emploi and Agefiph) in order to ensure that training providers are capable of delivering quality training.

GRETAs have been involved in quality initiatives for a number of years: GRETA Plus, AFNOR best practice reference framework, ISO 9001, EDUFORM, Qualité RE.S.E.A.U Région PACA,  PVE-Performance vers l'emploi and  now EDUFORM2 and QUALIOPI.

They have also obtained the certifications and accreditations defined by the professional sectors, enabling them to provide training or issue specific certifications for certain professions.
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2020

In application of the law of 5 September 2018 "For the freedom to choose one's professional future", on 1 January 2020, the GRETA-CFAs, GRETAs and GIPs in the PACA region become the only National Education training bodies able to provide apprenticeship training in public education establishments in the territory.

With a wealth of experience in work-linked training (under professionalisation contracts), these structures now organise training courses from CAP to BTS, as well as professional Apprenticeship Titles.

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2023

In order to promote the securing of professional career paths for all audiences and better territorial anchoring, the GRETA-CFAs, GRETAs and GIPs of the Aix-Marseille academy and the Nice academy are harmonising their training offer, pooling their resources and defining a common development policy within the PACA academic region.
By grouping together under the new FORPRO PACA brand, they are able to offer greater clarity and coordination vis-à-vis companies, funders and institutional partners.