L3
Contact / Information
Registrar's Office – Faculty of Education
Tel: +33 (0)4 67 61 82 83
fde-scolarite@umontpellier.fr
Course manager
Registration
Montpellier Faculty of Education
Training location
Perpignan
This degree trains professionals capable of coordinating activities and developing and implementing projects in public or private establishments under contract, as well as in facilities and services related to early childhood, childhood or youth, as part of the overall project of the community concerned, in conjunction with institutional or associative partners.
Depending on the initial training and professional experience acquired, supplemented by the courses, internships and projects carried out as part of the CSAPE Professional License, graduates will be able to work in structures dedicated to the care and/or leisure of young children (according to regulations, only holders of an EJE or Puéricultrice diploma are eligible to manage a childcare establishment).
This degree aims to help early childhood professionals develop innovative projects:
- Improving coordination and dialogue between different early childhood professionals.
- By creating a common training ground enabling the emergence of a shared culture between professionals from the National Education, social or health sectors, while preserving the specifić of their missions.
These are :
- Develop new ways of working based on this shared culture.
- Encourage the emergence of innovative early childhood projects.
This training builds on the existing diversity of early childhood professions to forge a common professional identity for the care of young children, and to reinforce the professionalism of individual childcare through flexible formulas and synergies with collective childcare.
Training is provided by multidisciplinary teams including academics and professionals: members of local authorities, heads of associations, social workers, child psychiatrists, psychologists...
- Understand the specific characteristics of children aged 0 to 6: their needs, rhythms and development (physical, affective, cognitive, emotional and social).
- Understanding parenthood: sociological issues and trends, supporting parenthood, helping families in difficulty ....
- Welcoming children into the city: supporting initiatives and innovative projects, proposing playful, artistic activities based on manipulation and experimentation (in conjunction with local resources), language as a factor in socialization and supporting development, avoiding over-stimulation, welcoming interculturality.
- Knowing all the players involved: facilitating transitions and specific care when necessary.
- Know the public policies and needs identified locally and nationally to guide its actions.
- Work on fundamental notions of public service: secularism, equality between girls and boys, acceptance of others.
- To be able to offer special facilities for children with special needs (principle of inclusion).
- Building on existing experience and professional know-how
- L3 course open to students with 2 years' higher education.
- Initial training: based on application (submit a detailed career plan) for students with at least two years of postsecondary education in health and social services or who can demonstrate significant professional experience in the field.
- Continuing education: on the basis of a portfolio for working people with 2 years' higher education or validated experience in the early childhood sector.
- Registration fees
- For initial training: university registration fees (€170).
- Continuing education: €5,500.
Information on possible financing:
Tel: 04 34 43 21 83
Pre-registration is compulsory in spring on the eCandidat platform on the Faculty of Education website.
(Covering letter outlining career plans, detailed CV and copy of diploma or certificate of completion, or transcripts of recognized training at least Bac+2).
For further information:
fde-lp-petite-enfance@umontpellier.fr
Tel: 04 68 85 70 46 - 04 68 85 15 17
Perpignan site - 3 avenue Alfred Sauvy - 66000 Perpignan
Validation of the diploma earns 60 European credits (ECTS) and leads to a Bachelor's degree.
The course comprises 452 hours of tuition, plus two five- and eight-week internships, and runs from the beginning of September to the end of June.
| Semester 1 | |
| EU 101 | Knowledge of the child |
| EU 102 | The child in the city: public policies, professions, activities |
| EU 103 | Project development |
| EU 104 | Internship (5 weeks) and analysis of practices |
| EU 105 | Project management tools |
| Semester 2 | |
| EU 201 | Project implementation and evaluation |
| EU 202 | Communication and collaboration tools |
| EU 203 | Internship (8 weeks) and development of professional experience |
| EU 204 | Tutored project |
Yes, all applicants will receive a response, which can take three different forms:
- a final agreement.
- a refusal.
- registration on a waiting list.
Candidates accepted for the course will be contacted directly and informed of the final registration procedure. In the event of withdrawal, candidates on the waiting list may be called upon in the order of their ranking.
Please note that no indication can be given of the ranking of pending applications.
All responses will be sent to candidates via the eCandidat platform.
All applications will be examined individually by a committee. The statutory deadline for replying to a candidate is set at a maximum of 2 months after the submission of applications: replies will therefore reach candidates between April 28 and June 20, 2025.
If you are selected, you will need to confirm that you are enrolling for this course. This confirmation must reach us by a date to be specified at the time.
You will then be informed of the dates and procedures for your final registration.
Applications (also known as pre-registration) for this course alone will be open : from Monday March 3 to Friday April 25, 2025 inclusive.
Registration is a two-stage process: first, you need to submit an application via the eCandidat portal; a link to this application is already available on our website, in the "Registration" section. You'll need to submit a CV and covering letter(on eCandidat). A committee will examine your application and, if you are selected, will tell you when and how to proceed with your final registration.
