Centre Information Et Orientation

What Centre Information Et Orientation does

The Centre d'Information et d'Orientation (CIO) de Vesoul is a free public service of the French Ministry of Education (Éducation Nationale), operating under the administrative authority of the Académie de Besançon. It serves as a local guidance center for the Vesoul-Gray area of the Haute-Saône department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region, providing career orientation and educational information to middle school and high school students, university applicants, families, and adults in professional transition. The center is staffed by approximately 5 personnel, including a Director (DCIO), Psychologues de l'Éducation Nationale specialized in school-education orientation (Psy-EN EDO) embedded in 12 affiliated middle schools and 7 high schools, plus webmasters.

The CIO does not develop proprietary technology. Its offering consists of in-person consultations, access to ONISEP documentary resources, downloadable regional guides (Guides 3ème, Post Bac, Université en Franche-Comté), and curated links to national digital tools such as Parcoursup, Mon Master, Cleor, Horizon21, and ONISEP Avenirs. Distribution occurs via walk-in office hours at 5A route de St Loup, school-based psychologist visits, and the institution's official website.

The economic model is non-commercial: the CIO generates no user revenue and charges no fees, instead being funded through the national education budget under the supervision of the Rectorat de Besançon. Customer relationships are direct-to-consumer in nature, with no enterprise sales motion, marketing campaigns, or pricing structure. The organization's strategic posture is administration-driven rather than market-driven, with operational scope fixed to its assigned geographic catchment.

Name

Centre Information Et Orientation

Legal name

Centre d'Information et d'Orientation de Vesoul

Website

https://cio-vesoul.ac-besancon.fr

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

The Centre d'Information et d'Orientation (CIO) de Vesoul is a free public service of the French Ministry of Education providing career orientation, educational guidance, and documentation access to students, families, and adults across the Haute-Saône department, operating from a single Vesoul office and embedded school-based psychologists.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Career Guidance Services

NAICS

Educational Services (611), Educational Support Services (61171)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Student Welfare, Pastoral Care & Safeguarding Services (EDAIAHAI)

akta.pro secondary industry

Pre-Arrival Orientation & Onboarding Services (EDAIAKAA)

Keywords

• Public education guidance
• Career orientation counseling
• Educational information services
• Student guidance services
• Government education services

Headquarters

HQ city

Vesoul

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Public Education Service Funding: Government-funded public service operated by the French Ministry of Education (Éducation Nationale). No revenue is generated from users. Funded through national education budget.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Free public service operated by the French Ministry of Education that provides career and educational orientation guidance to students, families, and adults in the Vesoul-Haute-Saône area. Services include in-person consultations with Education Nationale psychologists (Psy-EN EDO), access to ONISEP documentation, downloadable orientation guides (3ème, Post Bac, University in Franche-Comté), and guidance for navigating national higher-education platforms (Parcoursup, Mon Master).

Product overview

Centre d'Information et d'Orientation (CIO) de Vesoul is a free public service operated by the French Education Ministry (Éducation Nationale). It is not a software product company but rather a guidance center offering orientation counseling services. The organization provides student career guidance through Education National Psychologists (Psy-EN EDO), maintains a documentation center with ONISEP publications, and offers access to digital orientation resources including specialized software for career discovery. The CIO distributes various guides (post-bac, 3ème, university in Franche-Comté) and links to government platforms including PARCOURSUP and Mon Master. The service supports students, families, and adults in professional reorientation across the Vesoul educational sector.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Named customers4 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Nine partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• ONISEP (Office National d'Information sur les Enseignements et les Professions)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerNational official partner providing educational and professional information publications. The CIO distributes ONISEP documentation and references their platform for comprehensive orientation information.
• ParcoursupcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerOfficial national platform for higher education applications. The CIO provides guidance and resources for students navigating the Parcoursup process.
• Ministère de l'Education NationalecoreOthersParent ministry that funds and oversees the CIO network. The CIO is an official service of this ministry.
• EMFOR BOURGOGNE-FRANCHE-COMTÉminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerRegional employment, professional training, and integration agency. The CIO refers users for prospective and decision-making resources on employment and training.
• CLEOR (Cléor)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerInteractive tool for professional project development providing information on local jobs, salary data, recruitment trends, and career evolution pathways.
• Académie de BesançoncoreOthersRegional education authority overseeing the CIO. Provides technical infrastructure (DSI) and administrative oversight.
• Université BFC (Bourgogne-Franche-Comté)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerRegional university providing student life information, actions for university students, and student social file (Dossier Social Etudiant) services.
• CANOPEminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerNational educational resource network providing pedagogical resources and educational materials referenced by the CIO.
• Mon MastercoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerNational platform for master's degree applications. The CIO provides guidance for students seeking master's programs.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• ONISEP (Office National d'Information sur les Enseignements et les Professions): National public agency under the Ministry of Education that produces the official orientation documentation and digital platforms (Avenirs, Mon Projet Sup) which the CIO distributes. Functions as the upstream content creator whose materials flow through local CIOs.
• France Travail (formerly Pôle Emploi): National public employment agency providing career guidance, training referrals, and reconversion support to job seekers, including adults transitioning careers. Shares the CIO's adult reorientation and vocational pathway mandate but focuses on employment rather than initial education choices.
• Réseau Canopé: National public operator under the Ministry of Education producing pedagogical resources and teacher training. Functions as an upstream content partner that supplies the CIO with educational materials, sitting one tier above local orientation services.

Emerging players

• Studyrama: Private commercial operator running education fairs, student media, and orientation events across France. Competes with the CIO for student attention through commercial channels but lacks the official regulatory mandate that underpins CIOs.
• L'Étudiant: Private media and services company publishing orientation rankings, higher education guides, and admissions tools aimed at French students. Adjacent peer offering overlapping content (programmes, dossiers) through a commercial subscription model rather than a public mandate.

Direct peers

• CIDJ (Centre d'Information et de Documentation Jeunesse): National public information center for youth in Paris providing orientation, training, and career guidance to students and families. Operates the same public-service orientation model as CIO Vesoul but at national scale with on-site documentation, counselors, and event programming.
• APEC (Association Pour l'Emploi des Cadres): Public-interest organization providing career management and orientation services specifically to executives and young graduates. Comparable model of free, government-mandated career guidance with personalized counseling and access to job/training data.

Regional players

• EMFOR Bourgogne-Franche-Comté: Regional employment and training observatory in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté that the CIO actively refers users to. Provides employment data, training catalogues, and labor-market intelligence at the same regional geography the CIO serves.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/centre-information-et-orientation

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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